What are my chances?

[Rizabees]

I've been going to university for 4 years and just recently discovered that I don't want a career in what I'm studying for.

I've switched majors 3 times, (art teacher, social worker, elementary school teacher) and have had pretty poor grades because I just wasn't motivated to do well.

I've decided that I truly want to be a nurse. It's the first time I've been excited about any of the major changes I've made. I know getting accepted is competitive, and I'm very very worried about my chances of getting accepted.

I'll be transferring to another school, wherever my husband gets a job as he's graduating this year and we wont be living near the school we currently attend.

Does anyone know how the transferring of credits works? Will my GPA transfer over? Will they take the classes from my other majors and calculate them into a GPA at my new school even though they're irrelevant?

Or will I just have to fork over the extra money and re-take classes that I've gotten poor grades in?

[Student4_life]

Your college GPA follows you, but each IHL will have it's own GPA. It's kinda confusing.

School A: 30 Credits taken, 2.0 GPA

School B: 30 Credits taken, 4.0 GPA

GPA for Nursing School Enterance: 3.0

Now not all nursing programs look at the same set of classes. Some look at all courses taken, some have a time limit (only courses in last __ years), others only look at the last __ credits, some only look at their pre-reqs (and even there some schools have as few as 4 pre-reqs, and others a full 60 hours).

Kick butt in all your courses from here on, admissions will see that you found maturity and your niche. When you here about people with lower than typical GPA's getting into schools it's typically a student that had a rough start and finished strong.

[jimithing112]

Every school is different -- you'll have to do some research at schools you want to apply to and find their requirements. Definitely DO kick butt at classes you have to take now, though. If you haven't taken A+P yet, that would probably be a good start. Good luck!

[Rizabees]

Thank you for your responses. That relieved a good amount of concerns i had. :]

I'm not 100% sure where I'm going to school, but I'm 90% sure it will be in Dallas/Fort Worth in Texas.

I wont be able to start until Spring at the earliest for the prerequisites. Not until my husband gets a job.

I do plan on kicking butt in the classes. I'm most likely going to borrow my sister's [she's in the LVN program at ACC] books before I even start to get a look-see at what I'll be up against.