Studying in America is very hard and very expensive I will explain that in a little bit. Community colleges is cheap but here is the catch, you need to have a very high GPA, even you have a minimum GPA it doesn't guarantee that you are going to be in the program. Therefore, you have to boost your grade in to a cumlaude level to get a secure position into the position or if you are lucky enough you will be picked in a lottery basis or be in a waiting list forever. However, once you are in the program it doesn't it mean its going to be easy it will be harder and harder until you graduate. Repeating classes to boost your GPA that's how they make money from you. Now I'm going to talk about small private nursing school. These schools are easy to get in to the program if you meet their minimum GPA requirement beacuse they are really not popular as community colleges or universities. However, they are expensive 3X the amout of you are paying in community colleges. Since private colleges sometimes have a small group of students who attend their school you will get in the program in an instant, but it is often hard to stay in the program. Let say a B- is the minimum requirement to pass for all nursing classes it sound easy right? Trust me it is very hard to obtain a B- grade. You will have no life when you are doing this program because you have to study all the time. Philippines. You need to find a very good school for nursing. Studying in the Philippines you need at least $8,000-$10,000 in order pay for the entire 5 or 4 years of college for BACHELOR degree how can you beat that? Take note this is only for college fees not including your expenses in the Philippines such house/dorms ($100) a month, food ($5-$10) a day and other expensess. After you graduate there are review centers that will prepare you for your nclex exam. Just check the school you intend to go for their reqirements. Once you start their major which is the nursing class I heard it is intens too but not as bad in US. Just keep in mind it is in your hand if you will study hard in the Philippine you will have no difficulty passing your nclex here in america. But if you don't do what you supposed to do you may graduate in the Philippines but you will not pass the NCLEX in the US. Just go hard core when you start on studying in nursing classes because that is the key for passing the nclex. Let me know where you going to school because my brother will be stuying in the Philippines too maybe next year and maybe you and him could go to a college.