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Oooh, congrats Anne!! I hope to be as fortunate. I'm going to work very hard this summer! :)

I haven't, but I wish you luck! Anything is possible if you are determined to do it!!

Okay, not so jealous anymore. LOL!!!!

I might be a little jealous because ya'll get out in July!! lol My classes are T, W, Th 6-9pm. (Lecture 6-7:20; Lab 7:30-9)

Hey Mekia!! Maybe we can help each other!! :) Maybe more students will come in and join us. When does your class start and is it all summer? Mine is in the evenings from June 1- Aug 8th.

Anybody with me? :)

Thanks for your input!!! I started taking A&P I online about 7 years ago, but had to withdraw from school for a few reasons. I did well, and I did have my lab component on-campus. I like online classes I guess for the same reason most folks do, the flexibility of it. At the time, I worked 3rd shift in a "slow" Emergency department and was fortunate enough to be able to study throughout most of my shift, lol. I did quite well and I'm upset that I wasn't able to finish the course and now will have to take it again. The thing that sucks most is that most of the schools here require you to take a General Biology course as a pre-req for A&P, and I'm quite annoyed by that, lol. Maybe I can speak with an Advisor to get that waived, especially being that I took probably 40% of the course already. At any rate, I digress. My question was raised because I saw someone posting on another board that she was taking her pre-req's for nursing school basically entirely online, and she was taking them from a school that was NOT in her state. I wondered if that was a common practice.

Have you taken this course online? If so, did you do it at your regular college, or another? Any suggestions or experiences would be great. THANKS!!!

*cross-posted* Thanks for replying. I actually spoke to a Nursing Program Advisor today at one of the schools I'm looking at and she took a look at my transcripts and said I should be fine. My GPA on the core classes is over 3.0 and this particular school doesn't work off of Cumul GPA, they only count your GPA for your core pre-req's and program required courses. She even told me that 2 of the courses that I didn't think would count, would transfer. She gave me a plan of action and I will start this summer with hopes to apply next Spring for Fall admission. Jules, she did ask me about my "false starts" as you call them and she said that since it's been more than 5 years, they wouldn't take that into consideration either. Even if I'd failed out of a nursing program, one would be eligible to reapply to their nursing program once 5 years have passed. So because it's 1) been more than 5 years and 2) I did NOT fail out...I'm okay. Thanks for your insight!! :)

Thanks for replying. I actually spoke to a Nursing Program Advisor today at one of the schools I'm looking at and she took a look at my transcripts and said I should be fine. My GPA on the core classes is over 3.0 and this particular school doesn't work off of Cumul GPA, they only count your GPA for your core pre-req's and program required courses. She even told me that 2 of the courses that I didn't think would count, would transfer. She gave me a plan of action and I will start this summer with hopes to apply next Spring for Fall admission. Jules, she did ask me about my "false starts" as you call them and she said that since it's been more than 5 years, they wouldn't take that into consideration either. Even if I'd failed out of a nursing program, one would be eligible to reapply to their nursing program once 5 years have passed. So because it's 1) been more than 5 years and 2) I did NOT fail out...I'm okay. Thanks for your insight!! :)

I don't believe I gave any details about why I ultimately left Nursing school (I'm not speaking of my previous UG studies), so for you to say I gave up "so easily" is rather presumptious and condescending on your part. But thanks for replying and hopefully YOU feel good about your genuine contribution to this thread.

Do you have anything useful to add or did you just want to "concur" that my story was a bit difficult? At least I got feedback over on the pre-nursing boards. Thanks anyway.

Thanks for replying. Let me clarify, I never thought about lying or NOT telling them about the previous education, my question was whether or not I should just take an "L" and repeat all of those classes due to the grades and age of the courses. I would never try to gain entry to my dream by doing something dishonest, it always comes back to bite you in the long run. Besides, given my luck, I would be real close to graduating when I was found out and it would all come crashing down, lol!!!!!

I'll come back and update after I speak with the advisors. I'm going to head to the MD boards and ask for feedback on the local colleges. I am glad I cross-posted this here because I posted in the MD area, but I don't think that area gets as much traffic. :) Thanks for your advice and comments.

I will!! Hopefully I'll have more to contribute in the near future.