BSNMomOf6

This is helpful, thank you! I am specifically looking at the program at East Carolina University in North Carolina, since I live here in NC and it's only a few hours away. I was also considering Frontier, but I heard they are pretty strict on the 3.0 min GPA requirement. I'm open to any program that's distance learning though, if they have requirements to come onto campus I'm okay with that as well as long as it's not for weeks at a time, if that makes sense.

Hello, Are there any CNM programs I can get into with a 2.98 GPA? If not, would it be best to get my masters in nursing and then get a post-masters certificate in midwifery? I'm about to graduate with my BSN in June and have been a doula and childbirth educator for 20 years and really want to pursue midwifery, but due to covid and doing nursing school while virtual schooling my own 6 children I got a bunch of Cs in nursing classes that dropped my GPA to 2.9. Any advice?? Thanks!

First off, shame on your parents for not being supportive! As a mom what I want most in life to to see my kids happy, I would hope all parents want the same, but I guess not! Sorry, but I'm angry for you! Anyway, tell them you are joining the military, maybe that will be enough to snap them out of their ********? Also, I'm assuming you are female (sorry if I'm wrong) but I know some that work as live in nannies for families and they go to school and on their time off they babysit and live in the house with the family. It provides a place to live plus a job and time to go to school. My friend has a girl living with her so she can go off to work as a midwife at any hour of the night, then the nanny's job is to get the kids off to school and then she goes off to school herself. Anyway, it's an idea. I do think the military is a GREAT option for you, I think I might have done this had I not got married and had kids at 20. Also, if you went away to school where you lived in a dorm, using loans and paying what you can plus scholarships, would they allow you home on weekends/breaks/summers? Maybe just going away to college and living in a dorm is an option? Anyway, good luck hun, I'm sorry your parents are making your life so difficult. Though being a doctor isn't a bad option, maybe consider it?

First week, most clinical placements require it. I would just be ready to be drug tested any time.

Interesting, I just started and my on-line classes are through DeVry, so I wonder if next session will be different.

Anyone starting next week at the Charlotte campus?

I actually decided to start at Chamberlain and do my BSN, I start next week!

Awww too bad! Wish you all the best still! :-)

what campus?? I'm at Charlotte.

Awesome, exciting isn't it??? I can't believe I got accepted, I'm so excited and shocked!

Thanks congrats to you too!!! Yes I need to go in next Wed to do finger printing and drug testing and scheduling...you?

I got accepted!!!!!

I should find out by the end of today if I was accepted. I had a lower GPA of 2.78 and a HESI of 87%.

Hello! I've been considering Chamberlain College but avoiding it because of the price. However I have all my pre-reqs done since I was in a program a few years ago, this should cut down on the cost. I was wondering if anyone attends this campus and can tell me the good bad and ugly about it? Where do yall get placed for clinical? Thanks for any advice I can get!

It sounds like maybe nursing wasn't for you, but I know people who GO to Queens and they love it...so I'm not sure how bad it can be if many students I've talked with love it.