PLEASE help! What are my options???

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-2.5 Gpa with BA in psychology from undergrad.

-Currently doing my prerequisites for nursing school with a 3.70 in first semester courses.

-JUST found out on this forum that I can go from BA to MSN WITHOUT having to go RN-BSN-MSN route.

But given my grades, what schools would take me? Most say their cut off is 3.0 from any major.

1. Should I go Associates then ASD-MSN?

2. Accelerated BSN? (is it less competitive?)

3. Or are there schools that will take me directly into the MSN?

Thank you ladies in advance!

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-2.5 Gpa with BA in psychology from undergrad.

-Currently doing my prerequisites for nursing school with a 3.70 in first semester courses.

-JUST found out on this forum that I can go from BA to MSN WITHOUT having to go RN-BSN-MSN route.

But given my grades, what schools would take me? Most say their cut off is 3.0 from any major.

1. Should I go Associates then ASD-MSN?

2. Accelerated BSN? (is it less competitive?)

3. Or are there schools that will take me directly into the MSN?

Thank you ladies in advance!

Your GPA and prereq GPA are low for direct entry MSN programs (yes, a 3.7 is low for those). You can try an Accelerated BSN; many of those are for-profit and not terribly selective. Less-selective brick and mortar schools are also an option.

P.S. not all nurses are ladies.

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Thank you for your comment and suggestions.

And I didn't mean anything by the word "ladies". Was just being friendly. Men make up less than 10 percent of the field.

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And what is I get my ASD and then go for ASD-MSN, or will they still count my BA classes against me??? They are from 10 years ago if that helps and the 3.7 is my current.

Are there schools that only look at the grade point from Prerequisites and nothing else?

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So, you got your MSN, now what? You want a master's level job. Everyone that applies is going to have a MSN, so that's nothing special. Everyone else is going to have tons of nursing experience. You will still have NO nursing experience. Why spend the time and money on an MSN if you don't have the experience to get a job? I would go the ASN (most bang for the buck) to MSN route. What MSN specialty are you looking at?

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Thank you for your comment and suggestions.

And I didn't mean anything by the word "ladies". Was just being friendly. Men make up less than 10 percent of the field.

Reconsider your overtures of friendliness.

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Reconsider your overtures of friendliness.

No.

I will continue as I have been, and if that bothers you, you can find other threads/topics to respond to.

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Specializes in Cath/EP lab, CCU, Cardiac stepdown.

It's nice that you're only giving thanks to the majority, guess that means you're only after the opinion of the female nurses.

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I can see where your coming from.

There is no one right way, hence why so many different pathways are there...

But I figured since I plan on getting a MSN in the future, if there was a more time efficient route.

There is no shortcut to getting experience in the field and I plan to do so. But since it took me 7 years to get my BA, 7 years off, then 1 and half years for prerequisites, a semester ahead to apply to the programs, there must be a more efficient way to do this.

As for specialty I was thinking general practitioner or management.

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It's nice that you're only giving thanks to the majority, guess that means you're only after the opinion of the female nurses.

That is an assumption.

I'm interested in the opinions of anyone.

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Specializes in ICU, LTACH, Internal Medicine.

Try either direct entry MSN or Accelerated BSN in a place which has good quality MSN, some of them do a thing known as "advanced placement". This means that, having GPA above certain level, you will secure a position in grad school before you finish undergrad and will be able to do transition the same year. Mental health NP programs, direct entry or not, may love your degree in psychology, you just need to shop around and speak with advisers in person.

Pay close attention to the quality of schools you are applying. Unfortunately, applicants like you (second career, previous degree, low GPA) are actively targeted by for-profits which accept anyone still breathing and make easy promices of "GPA forgiveness" and "credits accepting" while charging a whole lot of money for subpar quality of education.

I do not see why an adult individual pursuing graduate degree should spend time and money for lower-level degree like ADN when he already has BA.

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Your educational pathway cannot be answered here. Only your school advisor can guide you.

Best of luck, let us know how it turns out.

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