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Aaand I got lost again could you tell me more about your friends who commuted from queens? Did they commute by bus or car? Were they in the nursing program? Going to stony brook was the dream I made after reality hit me I could never afford nyu. Going to a 'good college' was so important to me, cuz of family pressure I eventually adopted that as my goal. I hear SBU is beautiful, and it's the kind of place I'd imagine you'd get the whole 'college experience' you know? It's arrogant of me to say so, but I wonder if I can get that experience at farmingdale. I'm worried if I can get a job after graduating farmingdale even in ny, competing against SBU, NYU, Colombia and Hunter. My fam is struggling, I need to support them as well. Farmingdale would let me juggle school and them easier, but SBU was my dream. I just can't make the decision, and I need to do it fast so I can register for the appropriate classes. I know you can't make this decision for me, but you're in the position I want to be in years from now. Could you please give me some advice?

I have to thank you a million times over. Why didn't I think of taking A&P in the summer before? Lol. With costs and commutes altogether, its not practical for me to try to get into Stony Brook, to me supporting my fam right now is just as important as school. So I'll compromise on Farmingdale. I think I'll start a thread on how to get to farmingdale by the coming January. I'll have 12 credits by the end of spring, A&P 1 in the summer, and the other pre reqs in the fall and hopefully I'll be in the program coming Januray. Do you think its an ok plan? Again, thank you so much. Thanks to you things look a bit clearer to me.

The problem is by the time I'm ready to transfer to SBU, I might move to queens. That would be 4-5 hours of commute in total. If that happens farmingdale will be my only choice since hunter won't take me. Why do you think I should take A&P in the summer? Financially my family's struggling, I thought of going to some local classes over the summer to become a HHA to earn some money. What would you suggest?

Hello, this is my first time posting so bear with me please! I live in Hicksville and am attending Nassau Community College(Spring 2015). I took calculus, communication, spanish and english but halfway through this semester I made my career choice to pursue nursing. So right now, I can't get into Nassau's nursing program until next Jan IF I take summer classes. A&P in summer is hell, people tell me. I'm trying to find out how to make these classes useful into getting into SBU, with Farmingdale as my backup. Here comes the deal, I likely still will be commuting to school so if I go to SBU; that's 3 hours of commute and I cannot at all reach campus before 8:30am. Will that be a problem? Will it be tough to study? Anybody going through this? I was looking at Hunter too, but a Nassau advisor directly told me Hunter doesn't want to take Nassau students into their nursing(which makes it even worse since I WILL NOT be in the rn program) and from the website it seems I could only transfer in the fall semester so I'd be wasting a LOT of semesters, I'll be done with SBU pre reqs ending fall 2016. Could everyone pitch in their opinions please? I'm restless to get my bachelor's in 4 years(this is my 1st semester of college) hence I don't want to go to Nassau's nursing and really want to go to SBU. I don't want to take summer classes, everyone tells me sciences in the summer are horrible and I want to work a lot to save up some money. Oh and I'll be meeting an advisor from SBU 2days later, what additional questions should I ask? PS: Could anyone please tell me where SBU's and Farmingdale's clinicals take place? PPS: This is also really important, I want to move to the west coast after getting 1 or 2 years of experience as a rn in new york. Will going to SBU give me a better chance at getting a job there(Cali, specifically San Diego or Irvine)? I find it really intimidating that I'd be competing against grads from UCLA or cali grads in general. Thank you all, wish everyone luck on this journey we're all in (I might have posted this twice, I'm not sure if the other worked)