NEED HELP! LPN or ADN?

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Hey guys, thank for checking this out! I'm 21, just dropped out of my last school after two years because I realized nursing is my true passion having loved working as a CNA for a year and a half and being jealous of the RNs and looking up to them tremendously. I live in MN and have applied to a few ADN programs around my area. My GPA is 2.5 (low), but I have many pre-req's (A&P, psych, english) completed with C or above which gives me a good base to build off of. I believe I'm very smart, but slacked in college and had family issues that truly distracted and significantly affected my grades. Being as I'm this young but have a low GPA, would I be best off simply going for my LPN and working for a bit then bridging to ADN or BSN? Or go straight for ADN? Let me know what you think and I appreciate your insight!

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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)

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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.

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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.

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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.

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