I was just looking at starting my prereqs, and unless I am looking at it wrong, just one class (one semester/4 hours) of chemistry costs $1000! does that sound right?, seems really expensive!, I have a community college but its over an hour away, and it would eat up what I would save going there in gas.
Just wondering what other people paid per pre req, at that rate I will be spending $20 k on pre reqs alone!! I doubt whether I will be able to get financial assistance coz I have a bachelors already and some savings, but I am by no means rich.
Another question I had was, should I do another class at the same time as chem, or is it way hard!
WOW! A lot of you are so lucky. I was just paying for classes today and at my school it is 350 dollars per credit hour plus fees and books so for one pre-req class it costs about $1250.00. Its going to cost me 6500 per semester just for my tuition for pre-reqs.
mmmm I think I paid $84 for the class, plus $50 for the lab kit, and I suppose the book was $100. Yeah it was a JC. Gotta love California colleges, even though the prices are going up it is still cheaper than other states.
I'm registered in the fall for A&P1 w/lab, Lifespan, Stats and Nutrition. With out-of-district tuition, lab fees, and all the other added fees my total for the semester is exactly $999.00. This is at my local community college. $1000 for one class seems insanely high. Considering all the prereqs you're going to need you may want to think of taking the commute.
At my California community college it is now $26 a unit (up from $20). Between tuition for the four unit class and a used book, the entire semester cost me about $165. I couldn't imagine paying $1000! I could never afford to go back to school if that was the case
I'm actually really surprised to hear that other state's community colleges cost so much more. I've lived in California all my life, so I'm not aware of colleges outside of the state. I do know, however, how bad our state is financially. That's why the had just increased the fees from $20 to $26 a unit. I just registered for my first semester of nursing school and the total price was $387 because I'm also taking a drama class. I am now very thankful that that's all I have to pay, when I was just freaking out about the price the other day...
I live in Connecticut, and community colleges over here are very expensive. However, still MUCH cheaper than private colleges or universities.
I had to get a $850 loan to pay for the summer class. Glad that I only have few more classes left to take (AP 1/2, micro, and Spanish)and then just worry about another 2 yr of nursing.
I just paid for my A&P class (same credits/hrs etc as chem for us) at a Community College. It was $504 for the tuition, $75 for college "services", $76 fee for lab course, and $5 fee for student activities. Grand total $660.00
I think it really depends on the school. My cost for Chem (4c.h.) was over 2k, because my school is a private one. The books was silly expensive too and the prof didn't particularly like the text.
I think it's normal since you wouldn't be a full time student and therefore paying per credit. I'm taking patho this summer and it's $300-ish per credit plus fees so it came out to $1,061. It was shocking at first because when I was at a community college classes were $60 per credit!
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VioletKaliLPN, LPN
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WOW, some of those seem awfully high! My community college charges 52.00$ a credit hour.