sotochristine

I have been going to a Hostos comm. college in NYC for awhile doing my pre req's for their ADN program. I soon found out how competitive the program was and how ridiculous they make all the entrance test ( at cuny theirs two! NLN and ATI has to bee passed with ridiculous high scores) and scores so high to make it difficult for people to enter the program. ( seeing they only let in 40 students in the program at a time). I then tried Beth isreal and took NLN for that one, but my scores sucked. my overall score was 109, 69 composite score. ( i suck at math, especially algebra) And there was alot of physics!! I never too a physics class. The NLN practice book wasn't any help, not for me at least. So then I took NLN at Hostos for their LPN program, haven't gotten scores yet, and if I do make it I STILL have to take an ATI for LPN and THEN i get in.. I have taken all my classes. But i am debating going to Mid Manhattan center and starting all over and seeing if i pass the test to get in there? otherwise I give up on my dream as a nurse. With all this time I could have a my bachelors degree in something else. Idk.. I am so frustrated and feel maybe science and math isn't for me. I remember when nursing wasn't this nerve racking to get into. but because the economy, people are going into this like crazy. Any suggestions? I am in nyc and where are the places I could get into less stressful and slightly easier?

money cause these schools sock it to you...

Hello, I have currently been going to hostos comm. college here in nyc for two years of pre req's for the RN/ASN program. i was doing great so far, but just so happen one semester I was having really bad health problems and had gallbladder surgery. My grades reflected that because i was in constant pain, for a long time. I ended up getting a "c" in a crucial anatomy and phys 2. class. Although i had done this class in 2009, and the school rules were at the time it was okay to take the entrance exam for clinicals if You had a "c" and above. So i thought ok I scaved by, and my GPA was good. So now last semester I tried to register to take the NLN and ATI to get inside the program and subsequently denied because they told me they changed the rule in 2010 no more "c's" its now b- and above and they want me to pay out of pocket 800 bucks to retake the class which now sets my grad date back to 2014/15? i was ******! then they told me just to take the LPN program and be happy with that if I didnt want to retake the class, and take the entrance exams for that program. I want to be an RN! I found beth isreal that would except my transfer credits but I need to take the RN NLN entrance and apply to see if they will except, and take out an expensive loan, they are VERY expensive to go there. Or take the NLN LPN entrance and be done with it and go to work with that. I am a single mom, and know for sure once I start work, i wont be able to go back to school. so i am afraid if i take the LPN, i will never advance beyond that. i wont be able to do work and rn classes too. I have a special needs child. These test run in the same months and I am not sure what to do? take both rn and lpn test? (OMG) or just risk it and take either or. UHHHHHHHH! i am so confused, this school totally sucks. I know they want nurses to be book genius these days and get A pluses all the time, but thats not possible for everyone. & im not science or math wiz, and feel so stressed that nursing schools take advantage of that, & there are so many hopefuls to be a nurse they make the standards to unatainable sometimes. HELP!