What are my chances to an accelerated or direct-entry nursing program?

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Hey everyone! I am in a bit of a limbo here and would REALLY appreciate everyones help. Upon entering college I was a bio major and wanted to do something in medicine. That being said, I joined a sorority and did not take school seriously and did TERRIBLE. C+ in government, C+ in history of motion pictures, D in pre-calculus (retook 2nd semester only to get C :( ), and D in general chemistry 1. I was living by "Cs get degrees" and never studying. My sophomore year I decided to stop that and switched my major to business management, thinking biology is probably not right for me.... not the case. I just wasn't studying enough to do well as a bio major!

Anyway, I was still adjusting to college life and not 100% serious yet so i got mainly Bs and some As. I took Geoscience I & II that year to satisfy my sciences and got a B+ and B.

Finally my junior year I decided to start actually being serious and got straight As in all my classes. Because I did so well that year, my confidence went back up and the summer before my senior year I decided to try again for my passions of healthcare/medicine. I started volunteering at the oral surgery clinic at a local hospital every week and retook Chem I and took Chem II after. I ended up with a B- in both. I was devastated because I really wanted to do better than that, but chemistry was just so hard for me. While volunteering at the hospital, I learned about the role of a nurse practitioner and I realized that I still fulfill my dreams of being a provider through this route and it would not require medschool. I also saw that I could do accelerated/direct-entry programs for this given that I was in my senior year & my business degree was done.
Long story short, I actually became very serious and buckled down. I stayed 1 extra year in college to fulfill the prerequisites to apply to all accelerated or direct-entry nursing programs. I now graduate in May(2 months) with my bachelors after these 5 years.
Here are my stats for graduation:
3.5 cumulative gpa, Bachelors of Business Administration-Business Management (Business core GPA 3.7)
B- =Chemistry I (replaced D from freshman year),
B- =Chemistry II
B =Statistics
A+ =Nutrition
A =Anatomy & Physiology I
A =Anatomy & Physiology II
A =Microbiology
A =Sociology
A =Abnormal Psychology
A =General Psychology
A+ =Human Lifespan Development
9 months volunteering (little over 100 hours) in oral surgery clinic assisting surgeons/residents & nurses
2 business internships (one in HR and one in management)
2 months as a volunteer/trainee in genomics laboratory in London
Active member of 6 student organizations throughout college
2 teachers and 1 nurse from my volunteering experience who really like me can write strong letters of recommendation for me

I worked really hard this year to get the straight As in the rest of prerequisites and I will be set to apply to the programs right when i officially walk across the stage in may. I think my stats are good now to get in to a program somewhere... I hope. But I am still scared. I have improved my GPA and grades now, but the beginning of college bad grades will always haunt me. I do not have the time to sit through a whole other bachelors. My ultimate preference would be accelerated or direct entry. My dream would be to get into a program where I can do RN and NP together as a sequence at once since i know that I want to be an NP and am very serious about it. That being said I want to know what to expect & be realistic here.

What are my chances of getting in? Is there anything else I should do before I apply? Best place to apply? A little help, guidance, and real advice regarding my stats and chances of admission or anything like that would be GREATLY appreciated. I am so stressed!

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