nursing prerequisites for CA

caliotter3 · Jun 25, 2007

She has to raise her GPA to be a viable candidate for any school, so she should not obsess over the schools that will dock her for repeating. At this point, she can not help that situation. If she wants to, she can research this with the schools where she plans to apply and concentrate on those that will give her a better chance. Otherwise, just concentrate on doing her best and apply to as many programs as it takes to get accepted. Good luck to her.

catzy5 · Jun 26, 2007

I am just wondering if anyone has advice for my sister.
She is currently attending Azusa Pacific university as a prenursing student. So far, she's currently trying to raise her GPA to 3.0.
She's been trying to repeat a few of the classes for nursing to help boost her GPA. But i've noticed that there are some schools that don't allow repeat classes.
How should see get around that if she wants to apply for nursing school? if most of them count repeat classes against her?
Any other way for to raise her GPA?
But since GPA for nursing usually relies on specific prequisites, what is she suppose to do and how is she suppose to bring it up?
please help!
anyone been on the same boat?

I am in Southern Ca. The CC I go to will not let you repeat classes unless you got a D or an F so you can't boost your GPA in that manner. I had a C in eng 101 (20+ years ago) and A's in all other classes they still would not make acceptions. I looked into other options one being going the LVN route and then less competition for the lvn-rn bridge (you enter in RN 3rd semester so basicly you do one extra semester but, less competion). 2nd option would be to take higher level classes some school will take a better grade in higher level's in lieu of repeatine. My eng 101 is wiped out by my A in 102 and 201.

shock-me-sane · Jun 26, 2007

Is the gpa she is trying to raise her cumulative gpa or pre-req gpa? If it is her cumulative then she may want to look at schools that only use the pre-req gpa for admission into the nursing program. I am in so cal and had under a 3.0 cumulative due to some youthful indiscresions, but my pre-req gpa was a 3.7 and I got into a bachelors program.

best of luck to your sister.

2bnurse_it · Jun 26, 2007

its pretty much her GPA for prerequisites that's stopping her from being accepted or even just the application itself.

Anyone know any schools they know of?

I really want to give her advice because she really thinks she's not going to make it.

unless the LVN route is the only answer.

2bnurse_it · Jul 2, 2007

Which is better? taking the LVN to RN to BSN route?

or ADN to BSN??

is there a difference between the LVN and ADN?

NurseJeanB · Jul 3, 2007

Hello, I live in Northern California and there are some ADN programs in the community colleges that require you to have a minimum 2.7 gpa but then they admit on a lottery basis. So as long as you have the minimum GPA you have an equal chance as anyone. The BSN programs I applied to were very heavily weighted on GPA and I was told that the minimum competitive GPA was 3.5 -3.7. Also the community colleges allowed you to take D's and F's and some of the BSN programs allowed prereq classes to be retaken and if it was over 7 years from the first time you were not penalized for the repeat. The best thing would be for your sister to try to contact the schools she is looking at attending and contacting their nursing departments to see what they suggest. IT would be awful if she went through the trouble and expense of retaking some classes and being told they won't accept the new grade.

Best regards,