Need help finding schools that will accept low GPA or lottery

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I have been trying to get my pre reqs done for nursing over the last four years, school has not been my first priority as it should been and my grades have suffered greatly. Right now my GPA is at a 2.1 and I still have microbiology, the second half of anatomy, and a pysch class left to complete. I'm pretty sure I won't make the 2.5 GPA most places need to even be considered let alone accepted. I have retaken many classes but again as I said school wasn't my top thing so retaking them is not really an option for me. I want to get my BSN ASAP. Im 22 and I am WAYYY behind. I was thinking of applying to places that does four year program because they look at your high school gpa and mines was 3.33 but Ill be so old when I graduate. I also looked in to places like Kaplan but they only offer an associates degree and I really want to get my BSN, also I heard if you get a ADN that it won't transfer to regular colleges so I wouldn't not be able to do RN-BSN. Do you guys have any suggestions of schools that I could go private that offer BSN or community or four years, I really just need to explore my options at this point Im starting to feel hopeless. Any advice would be helpful.

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There are lots of private schools out there that would most likely take a 2.0 GPA. However, perhaps you should reevaluate your education goal. From what I know nursing school usually requires that you know the information from your prereq classes and expands on them. If you aren't doing well in them then you might find yourself at a severe disadvantage when trying to complete nursing school. I would retake the classes that are dragging down your GPA and focus on learning the material because they are very important.

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Specializes in Critical Care Transport, Cardiac ICU, Rapid.

What makes you think you can do well in a nursing program if you haven't even shown the minimum proficiency in pre-reqs? Nursing isn't something you can take lightly, academically or in real life.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Oncology.
school wasn't my top thing so retaking them is not really an option for me.

If this is the case, unless you go for a for-profit BSN program, there's no chance in hell to get into any other BSN or ADN program with a 2.1, I'm sorry to be so blunt. Also, I have no idea where you heard that you can't do RN-BSN with an ADN. RN-BSN programs are built precisely for ADN grads, and usually those programs are quite competitive, so you must have been completely misinformed.

Either find a way to retake classes to fix your GPA, or look into another discipline.

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Right now my GPA is at a 2.1 and I still have microbiology, the second half of anatomy, and a pysch class left to complete. I'm pretty sure I won't make the 2.5 GPA most places need to even be considered let alone accepted. I have retaken many classes but again as I said school wasn't my top thing so retaking them is not really an option for me.

If you have retaken many classes already you might not be a candidate for any nursing program, most have strict limits on retakes, allowing only one or two classes to be repeated for a higher grade. If you have already done this and still have a 2.1 you aren't likely to get into any nursing program, forget about fast. If school isn't your Top Thing then I'm not sure why you're talking about this at all anyway? For those students lucky enough to get into a nursing program today school is definitely their Top Thing and they don't have a lot of repeated classes on their transcripts.

I have no idea what you mean by an ADN not being able to later get a BSN, I don't think you have understood what you've been told or you've been told a lot of wrong information. but your problem isn't getting Only an ADN it's getting into any program at all!

I think your options are going to be going to a very expensive school that doesn't care if you'll do well there or even graduate as long as you pay their inflated tuition. Think long and hard about whether it's worth being indebted for decades to pay for it.

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Sorry OP, I don't think you stand a chance with a 2.1 GPA, even if you apply to one of those "for profit" schools that will take anyone with half a brain and a credit card. If school isn't your top thing now....there is no way you'll make it in nursing school. I suggest finding a new career path.

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