Prior GPA an issue?

[truckinusa, BSN, LPN, RN]

I don't even know if this is common. I'm attending NOC in Oklahoma. I had attended college in 1994 and earned a bunch of F grades. My advisor says I can get forgiveness for these old grades, but he said if I ever planned on attending OU Health Sciences for my RN they won't give forgiveness. Is that common? Will I be stuck at the associates degree level forever?

[BeachsideNic]

I think it varies depending on the state, but here in California there is really no such thing as forgiveness... However, for BSN programs, they only compute your GPA from the last 60 semester/90 quarter units, so basically the more classes you take with excellent grades, then the more of those old grades will drop out... I would check with the programs that you are interested and ask them what their policies are, and keep yourself open to other programs that you may not have considered.

[ooomonkeys]

Most RN programs only look at your pre-requisite gpa. You should go for it mang! I thought that forgiveness means that they will take those F grades off your transcript? So if those bad grades aren't on your transcript anymore then how will the healthcare departments even know about them?

[dp133]

I'm in Florida and my previous GPA kept me out of an accelerated 2nd bachelors BSN program at a local state university. They had a similar policy as they only looked at the grades from your first attempts in any pre-regs. So if you got a "D" in Micro the first time it didn't matter that you aced it the second time.

However, you shouldn't be stuck at the associate degree level. I'm currently in an ADN program and will continue on with an RN to BSN or RN to MSN program once I pass boards. Once you're an RN you have more options with regards to pursuing that BSN - Going this route will take more time but if you really want that BSN this is a way to get it.