Need your opinions?

[carebear_21]

Would it make more sense for me to take my Math's and English's, and my phlebotomy certification classes as well as a few other pre-reqs at a community college and then transfer over to a BSN program? I don't have a lot of money at the moment but I would like to eventually try to get accepted into marymount university in arlington va. I need to save some money up first and get most of my debt paid off and a really reliable car since I will have to do quite a bit of driving. I hope to be able to apply to marymount university in Augest 2007, I plan on talking to marymount to see which credits will transfer over, since the community college I am going to swears that it will. I am not only thinking about this because of the money situation but because I did not do very well in math, chemistry and biology in high school. I was a little bit of a slacker and I would like to take the chance to improve my GPA. Tomorrow I am going to go talk to an advisor and see what options I have available to me. I am also thinking about marymount university because they have housing and I will most likely need it since I cant afford to live on my own right now. Just wanted to see what everyone thought, have any of you taken pre-reqs at a community college and transfered over before?Thanks.

~Carebear~

[Dratz]

Hi carebear.

Any time you get the chance to knock off pre-req's prior to Nursing school, be it BSN or diploma, I would encourage you to do so. Because once you are in the nursing program you will find your time is very limited. The more you do now, the more time you will have free to concentrate on the thousands of pages of reading and papers you will have to do etc etc. Nursing school is crammed with non stop work. Get the pre req's done now!! while you still have your sanity...LOL. ( oh and one more thing...Make sure you get it in writing from the college that your credits WILL transfer over!!) before you do all that hard work.

Good luck!!

Dratz:nurse:

(second year nursing student)