Texas247365

QFT GI Bill + hardwork = awesome ops.

Wow, just wow. I am a white male and had no issue's getting others to not only pay for my tuition and fee's but was also able to get enough money to reach my total cost of attendance (so much money that I am now ineligible to recieve student loans, it was a shock to get the email from my school that informed me that I was no longer able to accept my student loan offer). Sure there aren't many scholarships just for white male nursing students, but thats ok. There are tons of scholarships out there that are gender and race neutral, they usually are merit based and require a stellar GPA, vol work and a compelling essay. Sorry that you feel like you are getting the shaft because there aren't scholarships earmarked for your exact demographic, but by no means are white males getting the shaft.

No one doesn't take money as a factor. Some are more dollar oriented then others, but no one works for free, and there is a reason that no one stops at CNA (after all, if we are talking patient care, the "I really want to help people" type of care, thats the cornerstone of CNA). For me nursing is about getting paid to do what I want to do. I am getting paid to go to school, I'll get paid to gain experience in my first job that is already lined up and if I am lucky I'll have my schooling paid for while I get my FNP. Yeah, I want to practice medicine, and nursing wasn't my first choice in that route, but I'll still kick*** even if my reason isn't cut and pasted from a Miss America Pageant.

Hello all, this one might be a novel, sorry. I recently have been awarded a full ride merit scholarship from my nursing school that pays for every school I have, room, board, books, tuition, fees; the whole nine yards. I still don't feel like I earned it, almost like I am an imposter. I never really got good grades in high school, and can't explain why I got good grades my first two years in college before I got accepted into my schools nursing program. I never really worked too hard (grades came very easy to me), or did anything that was exceptional (my extra crics were things I did for fun), yet I was given this gift and the letter that came with it applauded me for my achievements and hard work. This feeling of not deserving the scholarship is compounded by not being sure that I can keep my grades high enough in Nursing School to maintain the scholarship. My first 60 hours, 4.0 no problem, never sweated a class and never pulled an all-nighter, never even got below an 80% on anything, even if I turned in what I thought was crap. Yet I don't think I retained very much either, I always intended to learn everything and not just memorize it, yet its all gone as if I crammed it. I never could retain stuff for a long time, and I am very worried that this will kill me in nursing school. I can't talk to my friends or family about this, when I try they think I am being modest. If any of you an.comers out there have had a similar imposter feeling, please let me know how you coped with it. If you too made good grades each semester, but had difficulties recalling information later on, let me know how you coped with that. I am at a loggerheads with three different issues here and just need a starting point to get the ball rolling (and a recent study says that problem solving is easier when its someone elses problem).

From what he said DOs are looked down upon by MD's because the requirements are lower for DO schools and there are now some for profit DO schools.

Yes, some nursing schools do look at HS transcripts and ACT/SAT scores if they are within the last 5 years. However, in your situation I dont think good grades in HS, no matter the classes, are going to forgive doing poorly in college, the only thing you can do is do better, and if your school allows it take the classes again. A friend of mine slacked off his first two years of college, nothing too terrible C's mostly, but his GPA upon graduation ended up being only a 3.2 despite getting nearly perfect grades for his last two years. The medical schools he applied to didn't care about his 4's in AP classes in HS, or that he ended up doing great his last 2 years. every single medical school turned him down. He ended uo getting into a DO school, and although he is doing awsome, his entire carrer he is going to have the stigma of being a DO and not an MD, his whole life will be effected from just a few C's. Nursing is as demanding for grades as Medical School, its just so competitive out there now that slip ups are not easily overcome. Best of luck to you.

The transitional one sets you up to transfer to an associated college (Lamar and University of Texas) to get your BSN. Other than that (and the one credit hour difference that I just dont have the time to find) they are the same AKAIK.

What moon said. It may seem like an easy way out to pretend that you had never been to school before, but they can check. And intergrity violations are career enders.

Taking it a third time would still give you a C for the course, you would have to take it twice more (total of four times) to get a B, and really repeating a course once you have an A seems pointless to me (an A proves you knew 90%(ish) of the course work, and showing someone that you knew 90% of AP1 three times doesn't change anything). Be glad that your school takes averages, there are some out there that will auto reject applicants that get below a B in any science course.

How can you just come out and say that if they go by test scores and GPA that men might have an advantage, especially if they are strong in math and science? How do test scores or GPA set men apart from women? I can see scores setting those that get good scores apart from those that get bad scores, but a male/ female disparity might be a little unfounded.

Females across the board are over represented in colleges but that doesn't affect the enrollment chances of a male. This is the way it should be, no perferental treatment based on race or sex. Let the most qualified applicants have the spot and no concessions for equality should be made. We were all given a clean slate, and equal chance when we started college, what we allowed to be written on that slate, and how we treated those chances is not a result of sex and rave but of our own free will. I am sure some schools are set up to "promote" a minority group over a majority group (we do have HBCU for example) but across the board I do not think males have an easy in just because we wear swim trunks and urinate in the upright position.

Like singdance said, take a break, recharge your batteries and have a fun summer, you will have plenty of time to get up to speed as the courses ramp up.

It is not the people that you see that you are in competition with, it is the people that you dont see. Honestly you should look to your classmates as people to work with, not against. Those older students are there to help you if you ask them, and not just with school.

Just took that test and I am red green color blind, which is funny as the military never id'ed me as such. I can see red and green (stoplights and the like are no issue, but light pink and light green from gray...), but like I said before the light shades are very hard to distinguish.

Umm I disagree that it is not a disablilty. In micro I could not tell the faint red from faint gree in a spore stain. Luckily I was able to tell based on structure, but even then it was a guess. I am not completely colorblind but have some impairment on certain colors that I see as the wrong shade. If you talk to your professors they can assist you (mine set up my research project in such a way that the test series did not include spore stains, although I am not sure this was intentional it happened none the less).