StacieB

I did dual enrollment in high school so I got my high school diploma in 2011, graduated with Associate's in Science in 2012 and a GPA of 3.26. I took the necessary training to become an EMT for college credit but I didn't go through the state testing to become lisensed(a very expensive test). I graduated in December so I'm taking the spring semester off and I'm gonna be volunteering at a hospital. I've already had an interview, the head of the department thinks I may be able to help them in their ER. I'm just worried no school in Massachusetts will accept me with less than a 3.5 GPA. I live in Mass, it'd be so much cheaper to stay here. First I wanted to go to UMass Dartmouth but it seems they don't let any transfers into their nursing program. Now I want to go to UMass Lowell but now I'm starting to doubt myself and think I should only apply to "safe schools" that I'm pretty sure I'd hate. Ease my fears? Give me suggestions on more I can do?

I would say it's normal for most people to react that way at first. I took EMT training where my instructor held nothing back in the pictures and videos he showed us. Eventually you get detached from it and can objectively look at something. The more you see it, the more desensitized you become to it.