Prereqs at Valencia or Seminole, then Ucf HELP?

LittleMeDreamsBig · Jan 19, 2015

Hello! Great questions! UCF has a really awesome web site that outlines program requirements and admission statistics so you can get an idea of where you need to be to be competitively. Though each group of applicates is different this gives you an idea of what the general make up of previous admitted classes GPA's were. If I were you I would look into their Dual Enrollment Concurrent ASN-BSN program that allows you to take your general education courses at Seminole or Valencia while taking nursing courses at UCF, it is also a fast track to earning your BSN. You will graduate with your ASN and two semesters later complete your BSN. I have heard great things about the program, though I am not in it. I take classes at Daytona State. You will be taking general education course like english 1 and 2, speech and usually a couple others like a humanities course and history course. Only the schools will be able to help you map this out specifically and it is never too early to meet with an adviser at the schools. If you do a traditional BSN program at UCF you will need A&P1, A&P2, general chemistry, microbiology, general psychology, developmental psychology, human nutrition and statistics completed as these are your pre-reqs in order to get in. (Along with taking the TEAS and completing other requirements!) Nursing school is a whole new ball game I hear but these pre-reqs are designs to push you to show you can handle nursing school! Your cumulative GPA will be all your courses you take, your pre-reqs I listed here as well as the english and others. Your pre-req GPA will be the GPA of the 8 pre-reqs I listed and your science pre-req GPA is well, the calculated GPA of the science pre-reqs (A&P, microbiology, chemistry...). This means, while you should aim for A's in all your courses, a B in english will probably not ding you as much as a B in Anatomy & Physiology in the eyes of the admission committee. I am pre-nursing student myself so I do not have any UCF program experience to relay myself or tips on how I got in but hope I have been able to help. Please get in contact with advisers at Seminole, Valencia and UCF as soon as possible so you can really understand what is expected of you. Good luck!

NurseCassidy · Jan 21, 2015

Thank you so much for your reply. I'm more interested in the traditional bsn route than the ADN/ASN..... Are you doing a traditional bsn (2 years of prereqs then transferring?) What schools are you going to apply to after?

NurseCassidy · Jan 21, 2015

Hello! Great questions! UCF has a really awesome web site that outlines program requirements and admission statistics so you can get an idea of where you need to be to be competitively. Though each group of applicates is different this gives you an idea of what the general make up of previous admitted classes GPA's were. If I were you I would look into their Dual Enrollment Concurrent ASN-BSN program that allows you to take your general education courses at Seminole or Valencia while taking nursing courses at UCF, it is also a fast track to earning your BSN. You will graduate with your ASN and two semesters later complete your BSN. I have heard great things about the program, though I am not in it. I take classes at Daytona State. You will be taking general education course like english 1 and 2, speech and usually a couple others like a humanities course and history course. Only the schools will be able to help you map this out specifically and it is never too early to meet with an adviser at the schools. If you do a traditional BSN program at UCF you will need A&P1, A&P2, general chemistry, microbiology, general psychology, developmental psychology, human nutrition and statistics completed as these are your pre-reqs in order to get in. (Along with taking the TEAS and completing other requirements!) Nursing school is a whole new ball game I hear but these pre-reqs are designs to push you to show you can handle nursing school! Your cumulative GPA will be all your courses you take, your pre-reqs I listed here as well as the english and others. Your pre-req GPA will be the GPA of the 8 pre-reqs I listed and your science pre-req GPA is well, the calculated GPA of the science pre-reqs (A&P, microbiology, chemistry...). This means, while you should aim for A's in all your courses, a B in english will probably not ding you as much as a B in Anatomy & Physiology in the eyes of the admission committee. I am pre-nursing student myself so I do not have any UCF program experience to relay myself or tips on how I got in but hope I have been able to help. Please get in contact with advisers at Seminole, Valencia and UCF as soon as possible so you can really understand what is expected of you. Good luck!

Thank you so much for your reply. I'm more interested in the traditional bsn route than the ADN/ASN..... Are you doing a traditional bsn (2 years of prereqs then transferring?) What schools are you going to apply to after?