TKeith8109

I am actually going through kind of the same thing. I just started school two weeks ago and I'm already losing the motivation. I am actually talking with my boss tomorrow about a better job and if he says yes I'm going to stay with him. Nursing has been in my heart but once I got in the AP class I feel like its not what I thought it was going to be and have lost all motivation. Idk if its because I realized tgis isn't for me or if I'm scared. Good luck with school and all that matters is you're happy in the end.

Thank you so much. Its just hard cause its so much in such a short period of time. I'm going to finish out the semester the best I can and if I see I'm not doing as well as I want to by midterm ill drop it I know if I give up ill never forgive myself. I'm just worried that if I'm this overwhelmed now how will I handle my job??

I just started my ap1 class last week. Even though I umderstand the material, its so draining to the point that I am really worried. It could be that I should not have started this in the summer, but I'm dreading taking any other science classes. Nursing has been in my heart for so long and I'm worried that because of this being so much that its not foe me honestly I have no clue what I would do if I can't manage nursing. My teacher is great but its just so much to learn in such a short time. I feel very drained and exhausted and its only been a week. Anyone else feel this way and make it through? Should I power through or seriously rethink this?

I'm thinking about getting my lpn and then going back aftern i get a job and getting my rn. Is it worth it and will it help get me into an rn program?

Thanks for the replies. Right after I posted this I found a school that's 2 hrs away, same school ill go to for radiology, just a different campus that will be a possibility. I have decided to go for it. Nursing is in my heart and I'm going to do everything possible to make the best grades I can to get in. I have a family and the reason I went with radiology is because I didn't want to work so hard for a year and still not get in. Now that I have options I know I can and will do it. If its meant to be its meant to be. My family is the reason I'm doing this and I need to make them proud!

After a lot of stressing over if I'll ever be able to get into a nursing program, I have finally decided that I think it's best I go into a different program. I have chosen radiology and have just started classes for my pre-reqs. This program is a lot easier to get into and it's in the medical field. Radiology has always been my second, but I still am pretty bummed that nursing is not my path right now. My friend just got her first nursing job and honestly I'm a little jealous, but I know that everything happens for a reason and that for right now this is what my path is meant to be. I wish my gpa wasn't so low from my old school so I could still have a chance, but I have to own up to my mistakes and fight and claw my way into the nursing profession somehow. Does anyone have any advice or encouraging stories to help me through my pre-reqs?

I'm taking it now and its very boring lol.

Yes! My adviser told me that when taking any kind of science like a and p to make sure you're not over doing it in other classes. The sciences are the classes that really matter and you risk hurting your gpa and even having to re take the class if you can't devote more time in it. Also this is your first semester? You don't want to overload yourself when you're first starting out cause you don't really know what to expect. I would take it easy the first semester, focus on your science classes, and do great! There's no rush.

Thank you so much for your advice. I don't appreciate someone telling me to use more reliable protection when I'm married and I wanted to have a baby. I just took on too much and decided that waiting until my husband graduated from college would be better for all of us. Luckily I have found a school that will not count my previous gpa. I am going to work as hard as possible and hope for the best. Everyone makes mistakes, I'm taking responsibility for it and making sure I can do right this time. I won't give up until every school says no and even then ill go a different route!

I have already used an appeal. I started going back and did well for 2 semesters. Right before my second semester I had a miscarriage and focused on school, I got pregnant right before my 3rd semester and once I started classes I got really overwhelmed and had a 1 yelr to care for. I honestly don't understand why I'm on financial aid suspension. I dropped the classes in enough time and was doing well. The adviser even suggested me going to a different school cause I would have a better chance.

I agree with the above poster, my school does a points system and for every A you get 3 points, b's are 2, and c's are 1. Every re-attempt they take off points, but you get a certain amount of points for sat scores and TEA's scores. One of the nursing advisers told our orientation class that the minimum will NOT get you in, we need to have at least a 3.2 gpa, all A's in science classes, and an SAT score of 900-950. I think you need to re-take some of your classes and talk with an adviser about what else you can do. Your science classes are a huge deal breaker with a lot of schools, those are really the classes that count, so if nothing else, re-take those. Good luck with everything.

Well luckily I can get Pell, so school is paid for, it's just the old school i used to go to won't allow me to use financial aide. Paying out of pocket right now is just not an option, we have two kids and my husband just graduated so he's in the process of looking for a job. I am not going to give up! I will not stop until I find a school that won't average my gpa and if for some reason I can't then I will just find a way around it! This is my dream and I can't give up on it just because of a stupid rule!

That's great! I am currently looking into our local university to see if that's what they do. I wish more schools were like that, but the one I decided to go to is not like that at all! That's encouraging, I won't stop until I find a school that doesn't average the gpa's. That's the only thing I'm worried about at all. I'm still going to start my classes as planned and do my best until I figure this out! Thanks for your encouraging story!

I can't go back to the school to improve my grades, because I will have to pay for them out of pocket since I am on financial aid probation with them. The schools in this area do not have any kind of programs that will let me wipe anything out and they don't have an essay that I can write, at this point I would much rather have an interview and essay so I can explain what happened and take my chances. I will definitely be going a different route, like LPN or MA...anything that will get me into that field. I know it's going to be hard and I know it's going to take more time, but it's going to be worth it in the end. I am worth it and I know I've made mistakes, but that was 5 years ago, I'm a completely different person now. I am so passionate about this field and I wish it wasn't going to be this hard, but anything that's worth having isn't supposed to be easy, right? Unfortunately with the schools around here it's just let me look at your gpa and testing scores and that's it, they won't take into consideration that people change. Also, with my current school they take off points every time you re-attempt a class so it will end up hurting me more at this point. I have found a school that doesn't go by points I just have to wait and get the answer about the gpa thing. Thanks for your comments.

I'm devastated, after reading a post on here about a girl that had a high GPA, was on the deans list, honor student, and didn't get excepted, because she made a few mistakes 10 years before and had a low GPA at a different college, I started thinking that sounds like my situation. I too had a hard time my first year or so of college, stuff I couldn't really control, and my previous school GPA is terrible. Sure enough I talked to the adviser that deals with the applications and she said that they will average out my GPA, which puts me at around an overall GPA of 2.4, and that's if I make a 4.0 at this school. I am in the process of looking at the 1 other school around here, but if they say the same thing I'm on to plan b. I don't even have a plan b yet, so if anyone has any suggestions on different medical fields I can get into that aren't as hard to get into or if anyone had this happen to them and has advice please reply.

Well unfortunately the majority of schools around in my area are taken by my old school. There is a university and 1 other that is about an hour away, I have already looked into these schools and I'm probably going to have to do LPN and go that way. It's just upsetting.

My school does a point system to get into the nursing program. I had some issues that came up when I was younger that really weren't under my control and that caused me to have to re-take some classes. I used the worksheet to see where I stood and even if I make all A's and make a perfect score on my TEA's I will only have a score of about 988. I know this will not be enough to get me in. I'm in the process of talking to different advisers to see what the average score is. I have had my heart set on nursing for a very long time and now I'm thinking maybe it's not going to happen. Does anyone have any advice. No matter what I do, it's not going to raise my score. I'm thinking maybe I'll have to either change my major or I'll have to try LPN, but I don't know if that's easier to get into or not. Any advice?

Well this is a new school all together. I just read on their website that if you transfer from another school you start out fresh gpa wise. This makes me feel a lot better, now I'm just worried about the classes I have attempted in the past.

This might be kind of long so please bare with me. To make a long story short, when I went to a tech school when I was younger I was not in the right place in my life to start school. I had to support myself and work full time, even then if something came up and I needed money unfortunately my school was the first thing to go. Within my first year I missed a lot of classes, I kept getting sick and my car kept breaking down. Back then my school didn't have an online drop option, you had to go to the professor and have them sign a paper stating they will allow you to drop their class, and since I couldn't get to the school it was very hard to drop my classes before they automatically failed me( you can only miss 5 classes). Anyway, my GPA suffered ALOT! Now that I am older and have a family I am going back to school and I have the support system and the stability to do this properly. I am just really worried that no matter how hard I work it just won't be enough. I am going to a different school, so I know the institutional GPA will be different. I just don't know how much my previous school gpa will affect my new school gpa. Also, at my school they mark off points for each time you re-attempt a class, this puts me at about 5-6 re-attempts in different classes. I don't want to "waste my time" if there just isn't a chance for me to get in anywhere. I have contacted my adviser and hope to talk to her in the next couple of days, but I need some advice from others that might know the system better than I do and maybe someone has been in this situation that can help me out. I really have my heart set on nursing, but if it's not possible I need to know now so I can figure out something else.

I honestly would go to a nursing adviser at your school and other schools as well. I wouldn't call or email, I would personally go to them and explain exactly what happened. I would also tell them about your references and how this was so long ago. Be perfectly honest with them and see what they say. They might tell you they will not admit you or they might tell you it will be fine. It will also help to talk to them too because when your name shows up and they see that charge, they will already know what happened and know what your situation is. Everyone is different and every program is different, they might see that you have worked so hard to get to where you are and might over look the charge. Good luck!

I'm taking A&P 1 this summer in a 7 week course! I don't start for another 3 weeks, but I already have my books and plan on starting to go through them so I'm ahead of the game!

Trying to get into nursing school is so stressful. When I went for my orientation the nursing adviser told us that the minimum would not get us in. We had to have at least a 3.2/3.3 gpa and had to pretty much make A's in our sciences, but I also live in GA and all schools are different. I think talking with your adviser is a great step! I have read on different forums, that sometimes if you stress how much you want this and will ask what you need to do to get in and the advisers will guide you it will really help when your name pops on in that stack of applications, as long as you've done what they have told you of course! Sometimes it's not all about grades, it's also about how much determination you have put into making things right and showing them you can do this! Good luck!

I can definitely relate to what you're going through. I have tried going to school for so many things in the past 6-7 years and I never could finish a degree because my heart wasn't in it. I even started a school for medical assisting and I hated it! I swore I would never try medical again and I would try business or something different. Finally I came to the decision at 21 when I was pregnant with my daughter that I wanted to be a nurse. I tried so hard to make that dream happen and it didn't. I started school again at 23, but got pregnant with my son. Now that I'm 25, with two kids, and married, I KNOW in my bones this is what I'm meant to do. This is my passion. I have absolutely no questions about if this is right for me, I just know. Like other's have said, you might just not be there yet, or this might just not be for you. Do some soul searching and figure out what you're true passion is. Maybe take some other classes not related to the nursing field, if you can, and see where that leads. If you really enjoy teaching dance, maybe think about opening up a dance studio and start planning for that. Whatever your passion is and whatever you're meant to do will come to you one day, just like it does for all of us! You need to be happy with what you're doing, good luck!

Thank you guys so much for the advice!

I start my A&P1 class in about 3 weeks, I am so determined to make sure I pass this class with an A and I want to do everything I can possibly do to make this happen. Is it a good idea to start looking over the book and taking notes now? I thought it would be so that way I can get into a rhythm so that way I'm not so overwhelmed when the class actually starts. Also I feel like I need a little bit of time to figure out what kind of study habits will work for me and if I have extra time I can work out any kinks before the class starts. I just want to be prepared, but I don't know if it will even help. I also found the course schedule from this spring for my teacher, and even though it's not the same dates I can kind of use that as a guide line for what we will be doing.