Where on earth are CA students with a low GPA(3.3) applying!?!?!

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I can't stop breaking into tears. Depression is obviously sinking in. This is insane. Like it wasn't hard enough competing with 1500 applicants for a few dozen spots and now all the state schools are not accepting any Spring applicants if you don't already go to the school. That means next fall there will be 2x as many applicants.

It is getting to the point that if you don't have a 4.0 you are not going to be a nurse in CA. And even some of the 4.0 students are turned away (I know 2). I could shell out 50,000 to 75,000 for a private school BSN or try year after year after year to do an ADN at a community college but again it is the lottery and you could be applying for the next decade.

So what are people doing? I just calculated my "points" (points for GPA, for TEAS, for speaking a foreign language, having a CNA, etc) for a couple different schools and I din't come close to what the advisor said was competitive enough.

I am really at a road block. I have spent too much time working towards this but I really feel like I have hit a wall.

Please, please what are people doing?

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Is out of state an option for you? I am not from CA, but the school I have applied to does not have a wait list (well each time you apply you receive bonus points which gives you a bit of a boost and improves your odds of getting in.) So they don't keep an official waitlist as you apply every semester that you don't get in, but your odds go up of getting in since you gain re-application points. My only other advice is to have a backup plan maybe consider other healthcare fields to improve your odds that you can for sure get into something healthcare related you might enjoy? Anyway I'm sorry, I know things are really tough in CA right now. Good luck to you.

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if your GPA isn't high enough to be accepted into the lottery then you have to try another route like private school. The JC I'm going to is quite clear and upfront about their GPA qualifications. If your GPA is below it, then don't bother applying. Find out how you can get your GPA up? Repeat classes maybe?

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Specializes in Hospice & Palliative Care, Oncology, M/S.

First, big hugs. I know it's tough. I was shot down this semester because my pre-req GPA was too low after receiving a C- in Psych 17 years ago. I retook the course, received an A, and now it looks good for Spring.

If you can retake courses, go for it. It's completely worth the time, plus the higher-ups will see that you are retaking courses because you REALLY want this.

All the best.

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I am retaking my Microbiology "C" this fall. The problem is almost all my pre-reqs I have taken recently and still ended up with 2 "C's." I retook Physiology in the Spring. Then I found out that a lot of the schools deduct points for repeating classes to get better grades.

I swear it is a loose, loose any way you look at it. Sorry my glass is half empty right now.

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Specializes in Hospice & Palliative Care, Oncology, M/S.

One of the advisers told us to think about declaring another major, and to keep reapplying for schools. This way you might be able to do the Bachelors-to-BSN if they offer that, or do an RN-BSN.

I understand how it feels, I do. Keep trying if that is where your passion lies.

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Move to Texas. I'm not aware of a single nursing school here that has a wait list, and if you're willing to go to a school in West Texas or maybe dallas/ft worth area, you're pretty much guaranteed admission with a 3.3

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Move to Texas. I'm not aware of a single nursing school here that has a wait list, and if you're willing to go to a school in West Texas or maybe dallas/ft worth area, you're pretty much guaranteed admission with a 3.3

These are the kind of posts I want to see. Bring em on peeps. Give me more ideas. I am willing to move anywhere however I really would like some culture, not too conservative (heck I am from the most liberal city in the country - San Francisco), and I would really prefer warmer climates. I couldn't imagine not wearing flip flops in the winter. OK, it is not that warm here, but I wear them any way in the winter. At least there is no snow.

No but really I can move ANYWHERE for a year or two. I can't afford exorbitant tuition so I need schools that don't try to pay the teachers salaries with all the extra out of state tuition.

Thanks for the post.

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Have you ever been to Austin? Check it out...might be a good fit

Austin comm college is $54/ hour for in district & $300/hour out of state.

There's also UT Nursing which is excellent & Texas State University in San Marcos will have a bsn program within the year. Good luck!

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Have you ever been to Austin? Check it out...might be a good fit

Austin comm college is $54/ hour for in district & $300/hour out of state.

There's also UT Nursing which is excellent & Texas State University in San Marcos will have a bsn program within the year. Good luck!

I could be wrong but isn't ACC pretty competitive because of the lack of instructors?

Round Rock (20 minutes north of Austin) is getting a nursing program within a year as well but it's where ACC's nursing program will be moved to, if I'm not mistaken.

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I could be wrong but isn't ACC pretty competitive because of the lack of instructors?

Round Rock (20 minutes north of Austin) is getting a nursing program within a year as well but it's where ACC's nursing program will be moved to, if I'm not mistaken.

I guess competitive is relative, ACC seems easier to get into than other schools to me- since they only take gpa, hesi score, and # of courses taken into consideration when applying and the additional points added after each time you apply seems to me anyone meeting the minimum guidelines will at some point get into the school.

Whether ACC is moving their RN program to RR haven't heard that before! Perhaps they will once Texas State opens their program? Would be a bummer for me since I live in SW Austin LOL...

Just under construction is the Hill Country University Center near Fredericksburg which will house ACC, Texas Tech, Angelo State, and Concordia. Whether any of them will offer nursing programs there I don't know.

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I guess competitive is relative, ACC seems easier to get into than other schools to me- since they only take gpa, hesi score, and # of courses taken into consideration when applying and the additional points added after each time you apply seems to me anyone meeting the minimum guidelines will at some point get into the school.

Whether ACC is moving their RN program to RR haven't heard that before! Perhaps they will once Texas State opens their program? Would be a bummer for me since I live in SW Austin LOL...

Just under construction is the Hill Country University Center near Fredericksburg which will house ACC, Texas Tech, Angelo State, and Concordia. Whether any of them will offer nursing programs there I don't know.

Found it -

http://www.rrhec.txstate.edu/about.html

The Round Rock Higher Education Center is Texas State University’s campus in Round Rock. Texas State University, Austin Community College (ACC), and Temple College at Taylor (TCAT) partner to offer full Associate, Bachelor’s, and Master’s programs at convenient times and close to where students live and work. The RRHEC sits on 101 acres in northwest Round Rock and is the site where Texas State University-San Marcos will continue to build and grow a university campus to meet the needs of the Central Texas community. The Avery Building currently houses all programs and student services. The second building will house a nursing program and will open in Fall 2010.

The description is really funky. Why would a school in San Marcos open a program several cities away?

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