Ok, those still waiting or doing prereqs

Keely-FutureRN · Jan 9, 2003

I am doing pre-requisites now. I don't expect to apply until fall 2004. Plus the wait after that. I am currently in my second semester of school and I'm taking math, writing, an art class and a cna certification course. It is a long way off but I'm getting closer! :cool:

onlyaPre-nurse · Jan 10, 2003

Hi all:)

I too start my pre-reqs this semester.I will be taking a math ,bio,eng and psy course.I am getting kind of nervous about going....I hope its not like high school agian.all the cattiness,and clicks etc....Good luck to all :0)

Jen

TinaT021 · Jan 15, 2003

I'm biting my nails while waiting. I've done all my prereqs. My prereqs were Micro Bio & Lab, Physiology, Anatomy, Precalculus, Statistics, Chemistry 1020, Chemistry 1021, Psychology, Nutrition, Human Growth and Development,Sociology. I think that's it. Hopefully I'll get my letter sometime in the Spring. This is my second time applying and I'm just dying in anticipation. When I applied last year I had horrible nightmares about getting my letter and not getting in and they came true. Hopefully I'll have better luck this year. I have a 3.0 preprofessional G.P.A. and a 3.3 overall G.P.A. How many of you know someone who got in with a 3.0? My school wants a 2.8 minimum but that is no guarantee they will accept you they say. What do your schools want?

Good Luck!!!!!!

TeresaRN2b · Jan 16, 2003

Originally posted by TinaT021
I have a 3.0 preprofessional G.P.A. and a 3.3 overall G.P.A. How many of you know someone who got in with a 3.0? My school wants a 2.8 minimum but that is no guarantee they will accept you they say. What do your schools want?
Good Luck!!!!!!

My school has a waiting list and they don't base it on GPA. In some ways I think that is more fair, but then in other ways if I could get in sooner with a higher GPA that would be great too. Good luck to you!

tattooednursie, LVN · Jan 16, 2003

I think in 2005 I wil be starting nursing classes

Motivated, SN · Jan 19, 2003

I am finishing pre-reqs this semester and hope to start the nursing program Fall 2003; it depends on the waiting list. I hope I don't have to wait longer. I'm not getting any younger. lol

lunakat · Jan 19, 2003

I have to still take: Speech, Micor and Chem and I think I will be done. Of course they don't offer the chem I need until the fall semster or else I would be done sooner. This semster I am enrolled in Nutrition, Math for Chem, Eng and Anatomy. It seems like it will be forever! Any body applied for the RN program even though you are still not through with your pre-reqs? One chick in my math for chem class said she has already applied and that if you finish you pre-reqs before you go in you get more pionts for the lottery to get into the program. Yikes! She makes me wish I had applied almost a year ago..........

JudithL_in_NH · Jan 19, 2003

Originally posted by lunakat
Any body applied for the RN program even though you are still not through with your pre-reqs? One chick in my math for chem class said she has already applied and that if you finish you pre-reqs before you go in you get more pionts for the lottery to get into the program. Yikes! She makes me wish I had applied almost a year ago..........

I've applied to three programs for Fall 2003 . . . the two that are ADN programs said nothing about finished pre-reqs as counting in your favor in the admissions decision. It was STRONGLY recommended that they be finished before starting the nursing courses, but no mention was made of extra weight in the admissions process.

The third is a BSN program, so they obviously assume you'll do pre-reqs in the early years of the program.

My first choice school is one of the ADNs. I already have a BA, so I have the general eds out of the way, and I'll have finished A&P I&II before the programs starts. I'll only have Micro to do once enrolled, and will hopefully squeeze it in the summer inbetween the two years of the program.

camkib · Jan 19, 2003

The prereq's for the ADN program I am trying to get into are high school classes in biology, chemistry, and algebra. However admission to the program is based on points and those points are given by completing coreq's.

I started last spring semester and I have completed all of the coreq's except A & P II, which I'm taking now and Microbiology(will take over the summer).

I submitted my app for this Fall. I need to have an interview with the department and then will find out some time in April or May if I'm accepted.

The wait is killing me too. I feel that I have a pretty good chance of getting in, but I have a back-up plan just in case. If I don't get an acceptance letter in April or May I'll take classes toward other programs in my area for Spring 04.

Mommyofthree · Jan 19, 2003

Wow, Some of you have it pretty rough on prereqs. I am

29 with 3 kids and just starting the prereqs this spring, I start

with a elementary algebra class on Wed. My college let me

transfer a semester of biology from high school to college credits.

The only classes I will have to complete to apply to the RN program is Chemistry and English. I guess I am lucky. I do live

in a pretty rural area, so maybe thats why they are easier on us.

The chemistry and English I will take this summer, so by the Fall

semester, I can apply and take the nursing entrance exam, and

boy am I nervous about that, I do love to read and I've heard

reading comp, is a big part of it, so maybe I will do well. I am

also going to buy some study guides to help. If I don't make

it in the 60th percentile on the entrance test, I won't be accepted

to the nursing program and that scares me to death. As a stay

at home mom, I am excited to be able to use a part of my brain

that has been dead for a while. Good luck to all!!! I would also

like some feedback good or bad what you thought of the N.E.T.

and what level of difficultly it was. Thanks!!! Alicia

AlishaNHayzley · Jan 19, 2003

I will hopefully start this fall, right now I am doing A&P1 and then this summer I will do 2 and micro which will finish me up if I am able to clep out of comp1 and 2? Has anyone else clepped out of anything?

giftedRN · Jan 20, 2003

huh.mmmm...Still waiting. What can I say? I just have to wait until April. I am doing my electives in the meantime and two physical education classes. I will get into one of the programs for the fall but which one, I hope to know soon.

Keep the faith!

Ann.