My name is Rachel and I am thrilled to connect with other nurses or students with the same aspirations that I have and I just wanted to say thank you all so much for your support.*
Okay, so here is my*dilemma: I was a poor excuse for a student back in high school. I have been out since 2007 and left with a pretty sad GPA. I started college in the summer of last year(2011) at Georgia*Perimeter*College. I have managed to keep a 4.0 after taking some easy courses along with one remedial math that was a pass or fail class, intro to psychology, ENGL 1101 and US History. I live rather far so I am planning on transferring to Gwinnett Technical College to complete my pre-reqs. I am hoping to get into the Georgia State BSN traditional program and wanted to know what would be the best way for me to go about it. Here are the current options I have managed to brainstorm:
Option A: take all of my pre reqs, and all other non-nursing related courses before entering into the program so I may focus strictly on Nursing once I get in...or
(this option would take me the longest to graduate from!)
Option B: Do nothing but pre reqs and fit in a few other non-nursing courses just to get them out of the way before getting into the program...or
(take the remaining classes in the summers in between nursing semester classes.)
Option C: take only my pre reqs. ( the more time I take the less I remember for TEAS???)
Now my required pre-reqs are as follows:
ENGL 1102, College Alg., A&P 1 & ll, Microbiology, and either intro to bio 1 and 2, physics 1 and 2,or surveys of chem 1 and 2. Chemistry, I have heard is heavily covered on the TEAS.
Others classes include (hrs): critical thinking (2), spanish (3), political science (3), global issues (2), statistics (3), communications (3), survey of art (3), intro to sociology (3)...
Secondly, I had my son who is now 4 months old, now. I am married, and we are currently living with our*in-laws*and I work*around*25 hours a week. I can drop working hours to 20 ( opening only from 5 am to 8 am at my job monday thru friday) so as to not interfere with studying if need be. However, I cannot afford a sitter so my sister in law watches him mondays and*Tuesdays*6 am-3*p.m.,*and 5 am-8 am Wednesdays and*Thursdays. *I am wondering if I took on more than one science at a time if I could manage? If so, what classes should I take together?( Specifically if i do option B, I would like to get into the program having a bit more added to rid myself of extra studying aside from nursing classes. I can do others in the summers between.)
*I am planning on starting this next step this summer and summer courses area 8 wks long (2012).*Any thoughts?
