Excuse me if topics like this are everywhere. I never did TOO well in high school, even though I definitely had the potential to and I know I am a smart person. I just had never had a passion or did not believe I could do it. I dropped out just shy of 16, and now being 22 I have finally gotten my GED and am ready to do something. Facing problems with family money work and home, I am ready to put that behind and do something I have always wanted to do! Many people in my family are nurses or doctors and I know I have the passion for it and can see myself doing it. I was wondering (since my counselor at my community college has not been of much help, and all of my friends went right in to BSN programs after HS).. what would I be looking at? I am thinking from what I know and have heard, something like this. Just to get a ASN. A semester, or two of gen-eds, just before the prereqs to get into a nursing program. THEN a year or two of pre-reqs? Has anyone been on the same route that I am? I am just wondering what time length and things I will be doing to get up to get a ASN in my community college program.