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How about we have a thread for us! Hahahaha, sorry needed some encouragement today and figured I wasn't alone. I am so excited for the ones starting nursing classes this week, but so jealous. I know it will be my turn soon enough. So how about a check-in to see who's still waiting. When do you hope to start nursing classes? How many prereqs do you have? Or are you just waiting?
Me I should start in August, pretty much waiting. I've had my prereqs done for a while now. I am taking my last general ed class this semester and getting it out of the way. They don't have any nursing classes in the summer so just waiting and getting ready.
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!!!!!!
Originally posted by TinaT021I 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!
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..........
Originally posted by lunakatAny 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..........
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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.
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.
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
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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!