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at the school i applied to, they claim they chooae based on overall GPAs, science GPAs, and scores on the NET test. Theres no interview and no other test scores being considered. My overall GPA is a 3.5, my science GPA is a 3.0, and I scored high on the NET, at least post-high school. I'm just so frustrated because I know there has to be people that are getting accepted with lower GPAs and lower NET scores than mine! I refuse to believe for one second that all 80 of the people that were accepted are higher in all three categories than me. I'm just getting so frustrated that I've spent the last two years doing pre-reqs for this school all for nothing! So I drop out of university and get an ADN and all those classes seem like a waste. rant over, but thank you for listening!

I've applied to the nursing school here at my local university three times and all three times I've been denied acceptance. My science GPA is 3.0, which, IMO, is not too bad. Yeah, its not great, but I was lazy during my pre-reqs, I made a few mistakes, and now its lower than I wanted it to be. I was just wondering, is anyone here getting accepted into a BSN program with a GPA lower than 3.0?? I'm just so sad that a few mistakes I made a couple semesters ago is basically ruining my whole future. Oh, and I was just wondering, please no flames, but do any of you think some nursing schools pick acceptees based on affirmative action? Honestly, I can't help but think that, being that the nursing school I'm trying to get into's slogan is something like "Committed to becoming the number one hispanic serving nursing school in the country." To me, that doesn't seem fair. And please, I mean no offense to anyone, I'm just wondering what others around the country think.

i knew that. i think i read somewhere that np's can prescribe medicine, diagnose, etc, so i was just wondering like how much more can a md do than a np. and what other things does a md do that np's don't. it just seemed to me that np's do basically what md's do, except they don't go to school for as long.

i really hope to, one day, become a neonatal nurse practitioner, and i was just wondering what the major differences are. thanks!

yes...because everyone knows that i would permanently modify my body just to show everyone else how cool i am . and in an attempt to show even more people how cool i am, i would decide to go into nursing.

i totally feel the same way as you! i've been reading all these posts about how people just have this passion for being a nurse or they've wanted to be nurses all their lives and whatever else, and then i feel scared for myself because i really don't have those same feelings. pretty much like you i decided to go into nursing just because i really had no idea what else i wanted to do. however, i'm still a pre-nursing student, and after talking to people i know in nursing school, i'm sure you'll know after the first semester of nursing school if its something you want to do. to tell you the truth, i just feel kind of relieved that there are other people out there that are my age and thinking the same things i am about nursing!

i'm currently in my last semester as a pre-nursing student and i was just wondering-are most of you who are nurses and working in hospitals allowed to wear earring and are there any restrictions as to how many or what type you're allowed to wear? the reason i ask is because right now i'm in the process of stretching my ear lobes to a larger than normal size (but nothing freakishly large) and now i'm felling kind of apprehensive just because i don't want it to affect my getting a job when i graduate.