Hi, I hope I can help in answering some of your questions. There are a lot of people that are accepted with only an associate (I'm one of them). The fact that you are a guy will not hurt your chances of getting in. My class has a good amount of males. And they do take classes from junior college. Also, there are people in my class that didn't do so great in their TEAS and still got in, so it's ok. Not everyone that gets in has a 4.0 GPA. Best of luck