retaking prerequisites

[allivbb2]

Hello everyone! I've read from other posts that many people re took their prerequisite classes. For a better chance of gettining into nursing school. I've gotten a B- in one and was wondering if I'm able to retake it? Even though it's not considered a failing grade. Thanks in advance for your help :)

[NurseSpeedy, ADN, LPN, RN]

@Mb0382, LPN thank you for the time you took to write that reply. I was about to look into this one nursing school buy read a review of an upset student because he can't apply to any masters programs because he is unable to transfer his credits. I want to apply to many of the CSU's like csulb csusb csula. When checking what their policy is, do you just call the nursing department?

As far as who to contact the nursing department is a good start but I would request written documentation. I thought I was getting accurate information by going to my community college's nursing campus and speaking with their counselors and was actually given misinformation (not regarding credits transfers but regarding if the theory was always available online. I was told "absolutely" and then only after I got accepted was I told, "well, only if we have enough people enrolled in the online theory will it be offered that way. You need to expect to be here M-F. Online classes were relatively new at the time. I had to reject the seat because I had just moved out on my own and couldn't afford to cut back on work at that time. So now I'm going years later to a more expensive school because of the age of the credits).

The school that I'm going to now clearly lists their credit transfer policy in their student handbook. Other schools that I was looking into online had similar handbooks laying out the criteria. As far as wait list GPA's, the nursing department is your best source for accurate data on this subject.

[RNtobe17]

I had to retake all of my prerequisites. I did really bad my first two years of college. I had a really hard time adjusting. I also had no idea what I wanted to do as far as a major. So I just failed classes and didn't show up to class. Very irresponsible. Anyway, i took two semesters off. I decided I wanted to go into nursing and I started calling around to see which school allowed me to retake my classes and still be able to apply to nursing school. Some don't allow over two times. Some you can take it however many times you want. So you need to call and see what the rules are for sure. I found a school where I could retake them and now I have a 4.0 on my nursing prerequisites. I'm still trying to get my overall GPA up. But thank God my school only looks at the nursing classes not your overall GPA! Good luck. I hope this helps. Oh also, some nursing school give you extra points if you take your prerequisites at their school. So that's something to look at too.

[allivbb2]

@RNTOBE17 thank you so much! That gives me so much hope. I was so worried about these prerequisites. Thank you for the advice :) My I ask what school your going 2? I hope the ones I wanna apply to allow me to retake a few.