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That was exactly my thinking. I didn't want to have a C on my record for something so easy. I will definitely retake it.

My first college class out of high school was Psychology 101. I passed with a C, but kick myself in the butt whenever I think about it because I could have gotten an A. I simply didn't care and didn't really think it would matter down the road. Now that I am completing all my pre reqs for nursing I've realized that most of the schools I will apply to need this as a pre req. I am going to retake it, just so I can have the A factored into my GPA. My question is, will the universities I apply to only care about the A? My advisor told me that the C should completely vanish from my transcripts as long as I retake it with the same school. I know it depends on the school, but I've always heard that colleges factor in ALL coursework, including repeated classes. Now I'm rambling...I know a C out of all A's won't matter..but it really bugs me since nursing is so competitive. I wish I would have cared a little more about my schooling. You don't really think of these things straight out of HS lol.

Gotcha. I know that depending on which school, you can get a virtual lab online that counts for 1 credit, along with your 3 credit Chem class. Same with A&P. I just don't know which schools accept this.

Hello everyone! Right now I am working on my basic pre requisites for a traditional BSN nursing track. I am in the military stationed overseas, so I have to do my courses either online or at the colleges on base which are normally branches off of colleges in the states (Embry-Riddle, Central Texas, UMUC, etc) At this point I have a list of schools I want to apply to for the upper divisional course work and am just focusing on those pre reqs that those schools require. My question is, did anyone here take their basic courses online then transfer to a university that accepted them? What schools did you go to? I would like to apply somewhere in Texas because I know after looking at their course equivalencies most of my credits from CTC will transfer over. I am extremely interested in UTHSCSA. I know they are very competitive, so I wouldn't mind applying to 3-4 schools. Looking for lots of suggestions here! I don't want to be spending the next year or so working away on getting these classes done only to find out the university I apply to won't accept online courses (especially Chem, A&P, MicroB, etc). I've called a majority of the schools I'm interested in and they won't pre-evaluate my credits until I apply. Lame! Share some school info with me

Thank you so much for your help! I'm now putting U of SA on the back burner for now because they require ACT scores (never took it ): ) Now looking into U of San Antonio and U of St. Louis. Again, thank you! And congrats on your achievements! I'm assuming you will commission as an O-2E or even O-3E? (:

I guess I should have asked something along these lines: Since I should apply to more than one school, obviously all their prereqs won't be the same. I guess what I'm confused about is what is the best way to go about doing the prereqs to insure the best possible outcome when applying to schools. I don't want to have 'Psychology' for example when one school takes it and the other doesn't. That would make me a few credits short if it came down to that school. Sorry if I'm babbling, it just makes more sense in my head then when I try to explain things, haha.

Thank you so much, your post helped a lot! Luckily he can go to a few of those bases listed above which leads me to my next question that I forgot earlier I'm interested in U of Southern Alabama. I have about 1/3 of the pre reqs done already due to the CCAF credits. The others I will have to finish at my new PDS. The only problem is the schools on base have none of the remaining pre reqs I need available in the area. I'm starting to realize that I am a little in over my head and may have to apply to multiple schools online just to finish the prereqs...is this normal?? I almost think it makes a little more sense to do my tour and wait to come back stateside to take the classes. I don't do very well with online classes, only the "easy" ones. d:

Rwagner- My husband and I are both dual mil enlisted so this is right up my alley! Things are a little different if you are commissioned mil to mil but since once of you is enlisted it should be a little bit the same. The AF likes keeping families together. 80% of dual mil couples are stationed together. The other 20% are couples that are either in different branches of eachother, or simply because their AFSC's cannot be stationed anywhere since they are limited. What will happen most likely: Since you will be the officer you may take priority and your husband will have to follow you. IF your job is offered at his base, they might just move you there instead of moving him to where you are at a new base just to save money and it makes more sense. If your job IS NOT available there, they will move your husband to you (unless he has not fulfilled his time on station requirements, which is 1 year stateside for join spouse applicants.) Here is how it went for my husband and I. We both got married (June 2012) at different bases. Myself in North Dakota, him in Italy. My one year in ND was May 2012, so I was fully able to pack up and leave since my AFSC was needed at his base. He got to Italy in Nov 2011 plus his AFSC wasn't at my base so HE COULDN'T MOVE. Only one person needs to be qualified for join spouse, not both. It's a lot easier if you both have common jobs. Sometimes you will get lucky and your units won't deploy you at different times. I know a couple mil to mil spouses that would either deploy together to the same location, or not deploy at all. My husband and I are both on days and our units are pretty supportive. You won't get this everywhere you go though. If you happen to be separated from your husband at any time, just take it day by day. I was away from mine for a year, it never gets easy but it's worth it. Good luck!

Assuming officers abide by the same rules as us enlisted folk; I'd assume that as long as your training is under control and/or finished with NTP, you may continue your education. For enlisted, we have to finished on the job training, which usually is a year or whenever your CDC's are done. After that you may start taking classes. We have to get commander's approval if we want to start school before our training is done. Most of the time it is denied just for the fact that mandatory AF training comes first.

I just have a few (maybe a lot) of questions about this program. I don't want to get too wrapped up with the counselors here at the Ed Center because I am about to PCS within the next week, so I figured what better way than to post on this forum for questions and advice ((: Little background info. I'm currently an A1C stationed stateside about to go OCONUS. I put on SrA in March of 2013 (I'm not planning on applying anyways until the 2014 board, assuming there is one.) So I have the whole minimum rank out of the way. Here are my main questions: 1) I know you need 59 credits of graded coursework (including the following psych, anatomy & physiology, microbiology, chem, nutrition, and stats). Do the other courses in those graded semester hours need to be anything specific or pertaining to an RN degree?? I'm enlisted comm and spent the last year working on my CCAF for IS Management. I haven't finished my CCAF so I figured I could use the generals I had transcripts for to put towards those 59 hours (public speaking, psych, management classes, math, history, etc) I don't want to start at ground zero, because I have little to none "science-y" type classes. I haven't taken any cleps for these so they should count, right? 2) Once you get accepted into a school AND selected for the program, do you have any affiliation to the military after that? I know I would still technically be "in" but do I need to pt test everyone 1-2 years/etc? I don't mind, I've always been curious about that :) 3) This is a whole nother discussion in itself, but any chance of anyone being mil to mil and complete NECP? My husband is a weaponsloader and it's been hard researching for nursing programs by bases that he can go to(unless we want to be separated.) Wondering how that impacted your school searching/choices/decisions. He also wants to commission so we are looking into applying to different programs at the same time so we could possibly be separated only once rather than twice if we both went at different times. Any other tips and advice you could give me would be great. There's a 33 page thread floating around here that I've been searching through for answers but it's taking me a little while to get through haha thanks!! -Miranda