is it true?

[mee9mee9]

is it true that after you repeat a science class twice you have to wait for seven years to take the class again so it will be taken off of your transcript?

[Southern Magnolia]

Nothing comes off your transcript. Most likely the school has a policy that you can only retake the same course once and that sciences are good for seven years. So you have to live with the grade you earned until it "expires" and then you can retake it.

For example, I took Chem for the first time almost 15 years ago. When I was starting to look at nursing programs some had rules that your science classes had to be taken in the last 10 or sometimes the last 7 years. So the grade was still on my transcript from the first time but I had to retake it to meet their guidelines.

[Anoetos, BSN, RN]

At my school sciences are considered to have expired in five years. Whether this is a state guideline or not, I do not know.

They don't come off your transcript, but the school won't accept them if they're older than five years.

Interestingly, if you had, say, a Bachelors in Biology, it wouldn't matter how old it was, at least theoretically. You would probably be considered to have completed all the necessary prerequisite sciences (now that I think about it, maybe not pathophysiology and A/P though, not sure).