NEED HELP! LPN or ADN?

Hey! I've been through the same thing and I applied to 3 ADN nursing programs with a 2.5 gpa and got into all of them! I choose ADN because I didn't want any school loans so after I complete that I will do the RN-BSN route! I have not failed any practicums or repeated any nursing courses and there were students with a lot higher GPA's than mines and they've failed! I think the most important thing is that you know you come from the lower spectrum of favorable grades and it's important to keep those grades going up with hard work and determination! You can explain that to them in your essays if you need to! Good luck it never hurts to try, you may get in or not but you never know if you don't try! P.S Be prepared to work your tail off for nursing school as it waits on no one!! (Sorry for any bad grammar I'm rushing to write this haha)

Do you have the option to retake any of those classes? I just got in to my ADN program and the lowest GPA they accepted this year was a 3.4. It's going to depend on the school.

Yeah, I mean I could retake them at the community college that I have applied to the nursing program for, but I also wonder if they give any sort of lee-way given that I obtained C's in my pre-req's at a rigorous 4-year liberal arts school. What do you think? Otherwise I suppose I could take a semester to retake some of those pre-req's and boost my GPA, as I'm assuming they will be easier at a community college as compared to the liberal arts school.

Yeah, I mean I could retake them at the community college that I have applied to the nursing program for, but I also wonder if they give any sort of lee-way given that I obtained C's in my pre-req's at a rigorous 4-year liberal arts school. What do you think? Otherwise I suppose I could take a semester to retake some of those pre-req's and boost my GPA, as I'm assuming they will be easier at a community college as compared to the liberal arts school.

Community college isnt an "easy" option of going to college. It's the same curriculum, the same material. Most of the time, community colleges are more competitive when trying to get into the program. My CC takes 60 applicants per year, and this year we had about 400 applicants. Do the math on that.

I can't tell you anything about other schools, but given the admissions rate of my community college, I can tell you that they don't really care where you went before to take your classes. What they're going to see, however, is that you made a C in say Anatomy and Physiology, Chemistry, and other pre-reqs while 20 other people made A's. The admissions committee doesn't care about a "rigorous 4-year liberal arts school". They want to know that the students they select will have a statistically higher chance of succeeding and graduating as nurses. Grades are given the most consideration. That's why I made the suggestion to retake them.