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Thanks for the input Fireman767. The program I'm actually looking to get into is at a community college. The GPA requirement is 2.5 and a 70 on the TEAS. They said that they look at your GPA the last 60 hours first, which would be great because my prereq's that I take this summer/fall will help big time! I have a good friend that had a 2.52 GPA and did his prereq's and got up to 2.94 and he got accepted. He told me that the program is not that competetive. They accept 72 students and in 2012 they only had 70 in the class! He's starting this summer and said there were 92 people that applied, but about 17 of them didn't have a good GPA at all i.e. below a 2.5. I'm going to talk to the advisor tomorrow to get a better sense of what I can do. I'll keep you guys updated!

Hey guys I want your opinion on any if you can be so gracious. Here's my background: I graduated from a division 2 school with a bachelors degree in communications. I realized very quickly that this degree is not what I thought it would be, so I'm thinking about going into nursing. I was a volunteer at the hospital for 2 years when I was 14 and 15 and I really liked the work. I thought it gave me a good idea of what a nurse would be. I have only taken the basic prereq's, not the sciences. Well just intro to biology and physical science with a lab. I graduated with a 2.56, but honestly I didn't apply myself. I wasn't a driven student and it showed. I cared more about getting involved with friends and organizations/school events than my studies. Now I'm 25 and have been out of school for 2 years and I just hate myself for not being a good student. I feel like now I am more mature now and will be fully invested with studying. I'm looking at going to an accelerated program for nursing. My prereq's that I would need are: Anatomy 1 & 2, Micro, college algebra (I took math for gen ed so I'm pretty sure that won't count), chemistry, nutrition and dev psychology (though I did do intro to psychology. Not sure if that can be substituted). I would take all those classes in the summer and fall and apply for the program by February 2014 and start the first week of June, 2014. Anyway, this is the kicker. The program is 10 months long. That's right. 10 months. I don't know if I can do that. Maybe. It sounds like it would be hell on earth for those 10 months, but it would be so worth it to just finish. The plan would be to move to where that program is (I'm only roughly 80 miles away) and move into a single loft apartment with no tv and no other vices to take me away from my studies. Any info on an accelerated program would be fantastic. Thank you so much!