Very interested in CRNA school, tips on getting in/advice well appreciated

[dm27]

Hello,

I am in the early stages of looking into CRNA school, I am currently working in a NICU (neonatal) ICU, and will hopefully be transitioning to SICU soon. I am looking into the requirements to get into the program, and it seems like many of the schools require you to have at least a B in Anatomy. I am fairly sure I got a C in anatomy. Is there any way I can re-take it and have the new one I've taken count instead of the one I took previously?

Also, who would you suggest I inquire at my hospital to enable me to shadow a CRNA for a day?

thanks for your time

[lasvegasnurs]

Every school looks looks for many of the same things but then there are also many differences in what they look at. Taking anatomy again may help on say a school that looks at Science GPA AND only takes the top grades it could help but most graduate programs don't use GPA that is used on college transcripts which typically takes the highest grade earned in a class, they take every grade. So if you took anatomy 5 times and got 3 F, 1 C then the fifth time got an A all five grades would be used in calculating GPA. As for meeting specific requirements like "obtain B or better in classes X, Y, Z" You are likely OK.

So as long as overall your grades are in range of accepted applicants you should be fine... but a person who gets a 3.0 while taking classes once can't just go and retake all the classes and end up with a 4.0

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One of my classmates had a C in organic chemistry and applied anyways, but was not accepted (nor even granted an interview) the first time, and our program told her that was why because she did not meet the minimum requirements. She retook that one class at a university and was accepted the following year.