I do believe you have the option for pre nursing if there are slots available at the time you submit you application or youll be put in the pre professional degree at cabarrus college of health sciences. Its better if you are accepted into the pre nursing though. I, went the pre professional route, and am on the wait list for fall 2013. They dont let you know til closer to the semester starting so playing the wait game right now. Pre nursing starts in the fall or spring, but you are able to take the required courses starting that summer, you just have to be there at least two semesters. What happens in the pre professional is by mid terms, if you decide you want to try to get into a program, you attend a change of major meeting, and the school decides with your mid term grades if you are accepted into the program or waitlisted. Thats the route i just did this past spring.