New Concerns

[TexRN]

I finally was able to get a hold of an advisor. They told me my health sciences degree would mean I'd only have a little bit of pre reqs plus the 2 years of BSN and I'd be a transfer student. Well now they are saying that the bulk of my HS degree, since it may or may not be technical vocational that they may not accept those credits. Even though I took them through George Washington University. It was a requirement for my army job as a lab tech. So now I may be even more behind. I already have to do some of the Texas Core Pre reqs. Blah. I'm on pins and needles you guys, I e-mailed my unofficial transcript of the army part of my transcript and they will tell me if those count or not. If they don't, I'll have to retake Chemistry and Micro. Even though I work in that field it's still daunting to know I may have to struggle through that again.

Any words of experience or encouragement? This will not stop me from pursuing the degree, but it was nice to know that it'd only be the 2 years, not 3 or 4.

[DadStudentPerhaps]

Hey! Thought I'd pitch in a few words of encouragement/empathy as my first post, seeing as I'm in a relatively similar situation to you.

I recently had my 2nd liver transplant to re-treat PSC at the UT Health Science Center/University Hostpital this past March, as well as a total proctocolectomy with an ileostomy last October. The stuff I went through over the years made me want to alter my career path to Nursing from Computer Information Systems (got a B.S. in it 2 years ago, 24 yrs. old right now), and I'm looking into the UT Health Science Center here in San Antonio as well! It's going to be a rather long journey to get to that point, however.

I'm heading out to the San Antonio College tomorrow to hand them some of my transcripts to see what credits can transfer, but I have a feeling that very few, if any at all will transfer towards the pre-requisites (went to DeVry for my first B.S., and found out near the end of my degree that going there wasn't the best idea in the world). So it's very possible that I'll be going from 27 hours I have of the 60 pre-requisite hours needed down to maybe 9, almost hard resetting my entire academic career. It'll be at least 2 years, I imagine, until I can apply for Nursing School, but I'm determined to do so and become a nurse (in the transplant area, preferably).

I don't have a family or anything, but I can completely understand where you're coming from about the lack of pre-requisite courses. And like you said, maybe it's not so bad because now you/I can use this chance to get the GPA up again as high as possible.

Hope this helps somehow, and best of luck to you! :)

Wow... What a story. I admire your grit, good luck :-)