Thanks for the encouragement! It's exciting and scary at the same time. JayGirl - I hear you about people dropping! In my psych class we ended with about half of the students that we began with. Joephus - At our school you can declare yourself "pre-nursing" at any time. It just means that I intend to apply to the nursing program and when I go online and look at my student account, it tells me what I still need to take for the program. It's not a separate degree or anything. If I got financial aid then it would cover the classes needed for the program and only those classes which is why it's a good idea to be "declared."