LibaSkelova

First, I am very happy that I got in to nursing school, and I am NOT complaining. I am just a very curious person. I am 21 years old, Asian American, male, first generation college student, came from a low income and single parent household. I applied to these three programs. I'll list all them(not the specific school though) 1) University- Selects 64 students per semester. Has 2 cycles (Fall and Spring). 150 students apply. Very Expensive, and has 5 semesters. 2) University/Community- This is a dual degree program. Technically, I still take most of my classes at the community college, but at the same time, I takes classes in the university for the bachelor degree portion. Affordable, and get your bachelor at the same time. Takes 24 students, and 150 students, apply every semester. Has 2 cycles, has 5 semesters, and very affordable for a Bachelor degree 3) Community College- Takes 48 every semester, but has 3 cycles, including summer. Only has 4 semesters, and very inexpensive. For the School 1 & 2, criteria for getting in is pretty much the same. 50% Hesi score, 40% GPA. The only difference is School 1 uses the remaining 10% for residency while school 2 doesn't. School 3 is just lottery based. At first, I found out that I didn't get in in School 1, and it was obviously my HESI score since I only scored an 86, but my GPA was pretty good though, 3.88. Then, a month later, I got in to School 2 and 3. Obviously I chose 2. If I only got in to the community college, I'll be very content, but getting in to School 2 is a shock to me. Everyone says, even my advisors, that the program that accepted me(school 2) is much more competitive than school 1, which is weird. I'm actually glad that I didn't get accepted in the first school since it's too expensive. Anyway, I talked to other people who were rejected in my program (school 2), and scored 90's on their HESI, but have slightly lower gpa than I do. GPA and HESI are the only two things they look at in School 2(dual degree). We applied on the same semester also. I thought the school were objective, but I'm wondering if they have this secret selective process, and looked at gender, background, etc. without telling us. Maybe I'm just not giving enough credit. I don't know, I'm paranoid.

Thank you guys. After all that stress in patho, I currently have 98% in class. I was able to do well on my exams, although 1st exam was horrible. Let's just hope I'll survive this final.

Hello, I feel like I'm overreacting, and I am. I keep telling myself it's going to be ok, but I just feel defeated after today's final. I'm in 1st level nursing. So, I took my final today, and just bombed it. I had an A throughout the semester, but just lost it after getting an 80% on the final. When I got to nursing school, I told myself to get ready for this to happen and should be happy with a B, but I was so close! I've always been a slow learner, and was even shocked that I got into a bachelors program. I feel stupid most of the time when we're having a group study, but surprisingly, I was one of the two people who had an A in our group. Don't know how that happened. After today, I felt like all my hard work from this semester went down the drain. People in my group got a way higher grade than me in the final, and I'm back to feeling stupid again. I can't sleep, can't focus on my stuff. My sister told me I'm overreacting(in a nice way), and I am. Why am I feeling this way?! Can you guys give me advice on how to deal with this unnecessary stress. Thanks!

I'm just about to start my Nursing classes in 2 weeks, but I'm already taking classes that's not really part of nursing school, but required though. This class is Pathophysiology II. This has always been my case where I go to lecture and don't really understand a things after classes. I always try to pay attention, but I just can't get a grasp of what's going on in classes like Math and Science. It's not like I've ever failed a class before, I never even gotten a C before. I always have to learn everything on my own, and it takes up so much time to learn everything. I feel like coming to classes is just a waste of time. I brought up my patho class because in our first lecture, I felt very stupid after the class since I didn't really understand a thing. Did anyone every experience this situation??