Samuel Merritt ABSN program

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Hello!

I live on the East Coast and my best friend from college moved out to Oakland, CA to attend Mills and recommended checking out Samuel Merritt for nursing. The courses sound great, I REALLY like that they value your work experience (I've worked as a PCA and as a CNA/mental health worker for about 3 years, all paid work experience), my math and science GPA is decent since I took the courses at other colleges that assigned GPAs (3.75?), and when I spoke to an admissions counselor at SMU they said they were open to receiving the written reviews instead of grades. (Columbia in NYC was too, and I have several Bennington classmates attending grad school there, but I don't want to go from zero nursing experience to a Doctorate).

The caveat is I don't have an undergrad GPA. My undergraduate school (Bennington College in Bennington, VT) offered grades but the professors I took courses with to be against assigning grades, and I'm pretty anti grade in general (it's a major reason why I went there) so I got long form academic performance reviews instead of grades. Other alumni have gone on to med school and other grad programs so it's not some totally weird, unregulated and unrecognized hippie thing. My undergrad major was psychology and political economy. I'm really interested in community mental healthcare and providing care to underserved communities. I eventually want to become an NP but I really want to get a few years of solid RN experience first.

Any advice? Experience at Samuel Merritt? Recommendations for other schools to check out?

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