jenjen830

yeah, I have an acquaintance in a nursing school up north, and I always hear her talking about her grades and her classes...she spends too much time partying and only scrapes by with decent grades. I fear for her future patients - she's supposed to be there to learn everything she can, but she's not doing that. She's gotten to the point in school where your grades no longer affect just you.

I keep hearing that nursing school is hard, but not anything more specific than that. Could you explain that a little? Is it the actual difficulty of the classes, or simply the huge amount of material to know, or something else?

I've looked at all the classes at those colleges, and I'm placing out of nearly all the prereqs due to all my AP classes - for example, at North Georgia I only have to take 6 or 7 of those classes, instead of around 14. That applies to most of the other colleges too (9 at GCSU, 7 at GSU, 5 at AASU). Hopefully that means I can graduate faster! Also, I like the program that Georgia College has, because you apply to the "residential nursing community" as a freshman and if you're accepted, you have guaranteed admission to the nursing program as a junior as long as you get a C or higher in all classes. That takes some of the pressure off, as long as I'm accepted into it.

@Marshall1: Unfortunately Brenau is private, so I most likely won't go there. Could you tell me anything about North Georgia though? and @izzycatswimRN, what was Georgia State's program like?

Hello :) So, I'm a junior in high school, and I plan to get a BSN degree and become an RN, and eventually become a nurse practitioner. I need to start applying to colleges soon, and I really need some advice and suggestions! My parents require that I stay in Georgia and attend a public college, in order to get financial aid from HOPE (it's not easy sending twins to college at the same time in this economy!) I have a 3.93 GPA, I take nearly all AP/IB classes, and I am very confident that I will be successful on the SAT. Because of this, and of the low average GPA/SAT scores of the limited public colleges in Georgia with undergrad nursing programs, I know that I will not have any problems being accepted into any of the following colleges. The question is, which one is the best? I would greatly appreciate any advice covering any aspect of these schools - everything from the general atmosphere of the school, to the overall quality of the nursing program to the difficulty of individual classes. If you have attended: Georgia State University North Georgia College and State University Georgia College and State University Armstrong Atlantic University Kennesaw State University Medical College of Georgia or would like to recommend another PUBLIC university with a good nursing program in Georgia, please give me any advice that you can! Thank you so much! :)