Think a 3.0 grade is bad in a prerequisite class?

gere7404, BSN, RN · Apr 10, 2016

Depends. Do the program's your applying to take points off an application for retaking classes? What's your other prereq grades look like?

springchick1, ADN, RN · Apr 10, 2016

A 3.0 in prereqs wouldn't get you into any school in my area. Nursing school is highly competitive and they want top grades for prereqs.

BBboy · Apr 10, 2016

Psych, in my opinion, was the easiest pre-req aside from nutrition or communications. Unless you have several other 4.0s to offset that grade you'd want to retake that course

goddess9 · Apr 11, 2016

It truly depends on the area in which you're applying. If it's an impacted area, you should probably retake.

RaggedyAm · Apr 11, 2016

Is intro to psych a factored prereq or just a pre-prereq? Intro to psyh for me (also an online class) is psych 100, and psych 200 is the factored one, not 100.

So 100 will affect my overall GPA but it isn't specifically a class that the program will look at individually.

You should really ask your advisor. I don't know if I'd retake it.

crazydoglady89 · Apr 11, 2016

Ask your advisor/the schools you are looking to apply to. If this is developmental/lifespan psych (the one almost every nursing program requires), a 3.0 isn't going to cut it.

It's not that a 3.0 is BAD, it's just that nursing school is SO competitive here that I can't imagine that getting you in. If I could retake, I would.

Technical difficulties with the class that isn't your fault needs to be brought up to the prof IMMEDIATELY. There is no reason your grade should suffer solely because of that. If the issue is you, you should have fixed it right away. Our prof made it mandatory that we screenshot all of our grades and message board responses in the event our grades are lost (it's happened!).

Any time I have had a legit technical difficulty that was the fault of the program/class, it's been dismissed, a deadline extended, or the prof somehow makes up for it.

If you are simply having issues with an online class, I feel you. I am taking EVERYTHING online, and having huge issues with A&P. The professor doesn't even teach. She tells us what chapters to read, and the powerpoints are useless because they paraphrase the chapter. By paraphrase, I mean quite literally copy and paste from the book. My reproductive sytsem PPT is 312 slides. It's insane. I supplement in my own way. I watch lectures on youtube from other professors to give me an idea of what is REALLY important for the real world, and I use my husbands notes from when he was in PA school. Find ways to expand your learning. Luckily, nursing pre reqs are pretty universal (teachers DO test differently, so your mileage may vary) to the point where you can find a lot of resources online.

Brink48 · Apr 12, 2016

My friend got into a decent nursing school with a 2.8 GPA. I had a 3.1 GPA when I applied and got accepted to 3/3 schools I applied to in my state. It's not all about GPA, so you can blow your entrance essay out of the water and/or have good references and that will help.