Pre-Nursing Students in GA?

runsalot · Jul 30, 2013

Personally I would just take the prerequisites your school requires and get the highest possible grades and than apply. I don't think having your AS in pre nursing will help you get accepted.

zoe92 · Jul 30, 2013

I am in Maryland but I got an AS in pre nursing. I got accepted into nursing school, but it was because I got good grades on my pre reqs. The AS had the benefits of something to put on my resume & I was able to get a scholarship that covers half of my tuition

NotMyProblem MSN, ASN, BSN, MSN, LPN, RN · Jul 31, 2013

When I was at a community college, I was taking pre-reqs in the hopes of getting into the LPN-RN bridge program. I became friends with a girl who was doing exactly what MrsRondo is asking about. That girl took EVERYTHING the college had to offer while waiting to get accepted in that ONE school. She already held a Bachelors degree in another field. I begged that girl to stop waiting on this ONE school and go elsewhere. But she insisted on signing up for classes yet another semester when she stumbled across a couple of classes that she had NOT taken. This was for the spring of 2010. By that time, I was on the very last step of my degree from another college since this particular college wouldn't allow me to even APPLY to the bridge program. I emailed my friend to let her know that I was about to graduate and asked how she was doing with getting accepted into the nursing program. She informed me that exactly one month after classes began (February 2010), the powers-that-be dismissed her from the school ALTOGETHER! She had been there for 4 years waiting to get accepted. FOUR YEARS! And each year, she was rejected. I had only been there for one semester when I met her and when they refused to give me an application, so I moved on IMMEDIATELY! By the time I would have been allowed to apply for their bridge program, I had already been working as an RN for 3 months. I graduated from an online LPN-RN program. I've been doing online ever since. I strongly suggested that she cut her losses and use her many credits to go into an LPN program and then bridge over but she had faith that 4 times was the charm. She was wrong.

I say, if you have good grades for the program in which you are in and it's looking like you will be accepted, take it. Nursing schools are very competitive. Ultimately, the decision is yours. If it's early on, I guess you have time to weigh your options. But I wouldn't wait too long because curriculum are always changing and your sciences are only good for 5 years before needing to be repeated.

I gave the story above because I've been in Georgia my entire life and that experience took place here. I've not tried to attend any classes in this state since BECAUSE of that experience, not only my own but because of how they treated the other student. They actually removed her from class one day and out she went. Her experience is more pertinent to the question that was posed here.

Just a little food for thought......

Good luck!

lilgop · Jul 31, 2013

I'm taking my pre-req's at a CC in GA, and I'm going into a GA state nursing program in Jan. 2014. I love the CC I'm going to because all of my instructors have been great and really helpful. If I were you I would talk my advisor. They may be able to help you decide what would be best in your particular case. :)

Nurse2b7337 · Jul 31, 2013

I took tons of prereq's at my cc in GA. I applied them a BSN program and now the costs are lower to obtain the BSN and I only have to take NSG courses.

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