So, I got an F this fall and I'm starting to have panic attacks...

[Krystin]

I failed precalculus. Completely. I knew around the final drop date that I was nearly doomed, but I'm on the GI Bill and if I drop a class at my school, the government would charge me about $2k that I do not have. So, I doubled up on tutoring (even paid a tutor outside my school) and tripled up on study time for *just that class alone*- and I still failed it.

All of my other grades? Almost all A's, 2 B's. I've only had 1 C (this is with around 50 hours)

The school I go to makes you take precalc before chem.

I should probably mention my goal is(was?) to apply to the accelerated BSN program at Johns Hopkins. My school is a very small school with a matriculation agreement with Hopkins - but I'm pretty sure this might be a deal breaker.

It's not my first F either. Years ago I was moving across the country. I had to drop for the semester. Well, somehow I dropped 3/4 and neglected the last one. I didn't realize this until 3 years later when I was gathering transcripts. I petitioned the school of receipt but they don't want to hear it. 1 was enough. 2? Goodbye any hope of a decent GPA....

So, I think I'm screwed. Getting into nursing school these days is like getting into med school. All my girlfriends who are trying to do the same thing have never gotten F's so why on Earth would any program take me over them?

[caliotter3]

I couldn't do precalculus if you sent someone else in to take the class for me. Over the top if you ask me. I took the major chem classes at UCLA and they didn't require precalculus, although most of my classmates were taking calculus anyway. I only had to take college algebra there, and that was bad enough. Math ain't my thing after elementary school, although I did well in statistics.

Could you petition for an exception to this requirement? Sometimes that works.