Thank you LA SudentNurse. I'm new to this site so I don't know if this is how you go about asking a new ? but: I currently work @ UCLA Med Cntr as a Sr LVN & have finished all the reqs for Excelsior except for the CPNE but I've recently learned that many Ca Hosp's won't accept Excelsior grads; so for the sake of mobility, I'm interested in the ISU BSN program. Specifically, what I want to know is does ISU accept challenged for credit classes like chem, micro, A&P, etc. or am I looking @ a bunch of CC time in lab classes? ISU's catalogue seems to indicate that they want the real thing? I'd appreciate any input.