What is some advice for a high school senior who wants to go into Nursing???

[cardenas_a]

Hi! Im currently a senior in high school and applying for college in the fall. I have been looking into what universities i would like to go to and i would like to go to a Cal State University. My dream school is CSULA. I read on here that a person should look into different BSN programs and see what nursing pre-reqs they need and see which schools offer these pre-req courses... But I'm interested in many schools and i don't know if i should do that just yet because it takes a lot of time and i don't even know if i will be accepted into theses universities. Should i just wait to do that until i see which schools accept me??? Like, pick which BSN/ Nursing school programs i would like to apply to in order to become an RN and get my license, check what classes they need in order to become eligible for their Nursing school, and see if the universities i get accepted to offer those classes??? This is very overwhelming for me but i am determined to reach my goal!

Oh, and one more thing, before going to nursing school, you do your pre-reqs and you are placed as a pre-nursing major, right? when applying to college, you pick your major as pre-nursing or nursing? or should it be undeclared with an interest in nursing?..will that give you a better chance at getting accepted into the University since Nursing is an impacted major? What are alternate majors that are similar to nursing where i will be able to take all the nursing pre-reqs?

Thank you :)