mosergirl

High GPA is crucial. Don't tell them what a nurse is. The people reading your essay know the def. lol

I am in Arkansas... applied... wrote my essay and prev. degree is a bachelors of science in psychology. They looked at GPA .. either the last 60 hours or last 4 years of college (whichever brought the best GPA to the individual). Hundreds applied to the program and I believe only 28 got into the second degree accelerated program. I GOT IN! :) My GPA over the last 60 hours was all A's and one B.. So like a 3.9 maybe.. and if you calculated total GPA over 4 years, it was around a 3.8. I was sooo nervous about being rejected because I gave up getting my masters degree in the psych field to pursue nursing. I even spent the last 2 semesters getting my A and P classes and having to take organic biochem... not to mention the labs that went with them. I have a 3 year old and husband.. 23 years old and it is time to finish school and start to work.. So I would have been SO upset if I had wasted the last year of my life. Plus, I only applied to ONE college.... so my chances were not as high. Good luck to all applying.

I was just accepted into a 2nd degree accelerated BSN program and this program required a prev. bachelors degree. My prev. degree was Bachelors of Science in Psychology. They based acceptance on the highest GPA and an essay on why you want to be a nurse. When calculating GPA they looked at the whole 4 years or last 60 hours.., whichever brought the highest GPA for that person. It is very competitive. I still had to go back to my prev. jr. college where I got my associates degree and pick up my organic biochem and my anatomy classes. Thank goodness I had already had the other pre reqs required! Im extremely nervous about what the 13 months program will be like.