W on Microbiology, Do I Still Have A Chance?

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Hi all,

I'm currently a pre-nursing student. I'm a little bit stuck here:

So I got my Bachelor of Arts in Communication 1 year ago. Long story short, I decided in my final year of undergrad that I wanted to change to Nursing (oops). I took my final year to take as many pre-reqs for programs (my undergrad university did not have a nursing program).

However, I was still missing Microbiology. I was unable to take it at undergrad because I went past the overload limit for courses.

I decided to go to my local community college. For an entire year I fought to try to get into Micro. It took an entire year because the community college I took the class at was severely impacted.

It was a summer course. I took several courses during the summer at my undergrad (a few of them were the science pre reqs) and the professors were awesome and chill. I walked into a nightmare of this micro class.

To make this post short, the professor was actually mean to us students. She would be very rude, yell at us, made us feel dumb, and didn't feel like answering questions we had. I was doing ok in the course, until I had my environmental unknown project. I could not get a culture growing and the professor yelled at me, the class was able to hear it too.

I have Crohn's Disease (remission for 5.5 years) so managing my stress is always something I need to watch. I was so stressed about getting a B or above in this course (and dealing with a mean professor) that some of my symptoms were starting present.

I knew I needed to make a wise choice and withdraw from the class. The drop date was 2 days after the course started, so of course I have a W.

I'm terrified that this W will ruin my chances of getting into programs forever. I plan on trying again in the Spring semester of 2018 (can't do fall because I'll be out of town the first week of Fall semester). I just hope I'm ready to put myself through this torture again.

A little bit of motivation and advice is well appreciated. :)

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Well.. A W definitely isnt to help you, but I dont necessarily think its a deal breaker either. Just do great in your other classes and you should be fine!

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Take a deep breath. It's okay! I had a similar experience, but with Anatomy. I was just not prepared for all the memorization required and got a D on my first exam and I completely panicked. Fortunately, I had a wonderful professor and spoke to him about my concerns. I'll never forget him. He said, "Don't buy into the culture of fear! Of course you can withdraw!" Well, I did an retook Anatomy, getting an A. I was accepted by both UCLA and Johns Hopkins nursing schools. So, it will be okay! Good luck!

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@shibaowner,

Thank you for sharing! I have B's in Chem and A&P, so I'm doing pretty well, I just feel a lot of pressure to keep up the high grades. Maybe I'll get an A when I retake Micro ;)

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Specializes in SRNA.

When I applied to 1 and only 1 ABSN program I had 2 Ws (1 in Gen Bio II and 1 in Gen Chem I lecture).

I start nursing school in 34 days :)

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