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

[ChanelCinq]

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?

[~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN]

I'm not yet, I'm still #1 on the waitlist for fall 09 entry. But I'm assuming I won't get in since there's only a week left for them to accept me. That's okay though, there's always spring!!

Don't count it out yet, some people never show up on the first day or drop in the first few days.

[ChanelCinq]

I had to add another reply after reading a few more posts. You are allowing these schools to control you. May I ask you how many nurisng textbooks have you read?

Retaking a class that you already took and spending 3 months of your time to do it is LAME.

If you are really wanting to be a nurse, start to study on your own, take and EMT class, go to Paramedic school.

Find a fair priced LVN school somewhere and start to learn medicine. The doors will open as you will start to meet people who can point you in the right direction.

California is importing nurses!!!!!!!! Google this..........Goal2Diversity. It states the agenda for California nursing. Like I said find a state that you can start to study nursing, and not have to take history over agian to become a nurse. These people in these schools are wasting your time, most of them could not handle a simple ACLS algorithm or treat a major truama pt. Sorry if I have been to blunt but I would look elswhere and you will make it. Go Get it.

I don't do well studying on my own. I could never take online classes. I need the classroom environment.

I know that I will get in somewhere in the country for a BSN or ABSN. It just probably will not be CA which is fine but I just need to find out about different programs.

What school in Wyoming did your friend go to? I am trying to find out about as many schools as possible and searching online is not very efficient.

I have tried to start threads about inexpensive ABSN programs but didn't get many responses. There are sites like becomern.com that list ABSN programs but most all those are the expensive ones. I know there are cheaper ones out there I just don't know how to find them.

[ChanelCinq]

I go to Cal State San Marcos. I'm in the Generic BSN program. It's 3 years long, and designed for those without a BA/BS. You can apply for it if you have one though, one of my classmates has a BS already and opted to go this route instead of the ABSN, which the school also has. I've heard it was easier to get into the ABSN program, but dunno for sure.

I looked on their web site recently and it appears they have changed it. Now people with a previous BA or BS can only apply for their ABSN. This may be recent with the budget cuts and they know they can get a lot more money out of the ABSN students.

I am really surprised that a state school can charge the fees they do for a program. They charge private school rates for their ABSN. I am surprised they can charge that much for a state school. It kind of irks me and it is not that accelerated as it is 2 years.

[Snwbdr]

well what are you willing to pay for school? 32k total isn't really all that much compared to 50K n up....but that's just my opinion...

[ChanelCinq]

well what are you willing to pay for school? 32k total isn't really all that much compared to 50K n up....but that's just my opinion...

Certainly not willing to pay 50,000. Not willing to pay 32,000 for a two year program and I don't consider 2 years accelerated. Would maybe (big maybe) pay 32,000 for a one year program.

I know there are programs out there a lot cheaper but I just have to find them. That is the hard part, finding them.

[duvonm]

i havent found a cheaper program in california Everest College has a 2 year full time ADN program for 46,000 but you have to take a few tests and interview with nurse and maybe get accepted only 40 slots but 500 applicants and there is west coast university with a tuition of 126,000 you take a hesi exam pass and you are in as long as you can afford it. as far as no jobs i keep talking to new grads and they get employed after passing test. But you know what come to think of it as i am typing these were all graduates of private schools. I wonder if these schools have agreements with hospitals?

[starmickey03, MSN, RN]

Not in Cali but there is a school in Oklahoma that accepts EVERYONE as long as they meet the requirements. Its called Oklahoma City University (http://www.okcu.edu). They have some type of agreement with the government to decrease the nursing shortage. They have BSN, ABSN, MSN, and doctoral programs. They only turn people away for the doctoral programs. Of course its pricier than community colleges but if youre really discouraged then you should give it a try. I looked at their ABSN program and its around $43,000. Im in the same boat youre in. I have a 3.37 and thats not good enough to get me into any schools in MI, so Ive been applying to schools in Ohio and Indiana instead. If I dont get accepted into any of those programs then Oklahoma will be my LAST resort. But when you want something bad enough you have to do whatever it takes to get it. If I do have to end up going there the only thing I wouldnt like is the lack of diversity I hear the state has especially since Im black and in MI we have people of all the colors of the rainbow here

[ChanelCinq]

Not in Cali but there is a school in Oklahoma that accepts EVERYONE as long as they meet the requirements. Its called Oklahoma City University (http://www.okcu.edu). They have some type of agreement with the government to decrease the nursing shortage. They have BSN, ABSN, MSN, and doctoral programs. They only turn people away for the doctoral programs. Of course its pricier than community colleges but if youre really discouraged then you should give it a try. I looked at their ABSN program and its around $43,000. Im in the same boat youre in. I have a 3.37 and thats not good enough to get me into any schools in MI, so Ive been applying to schools in Ohio and Indiana instead. If I dont get accepted into any of those programs then Oklahoma will be my LAST resort. But when you want something bad enough you have to do whatever it takes to get it. If I do have to end up going there the only thing I wouldnt like is the lack of diversity I hear the state has especially since Im black and in MI we have people of all the colors of the rainbow here

THanks for the info but I highly doubt I would go to Oklahoma. You think MI has all colors of the rainbow, I live in San Francisco and here we truely cover all the counties in the globe. That and we are liberal and I am even more liberal so I don't really think I would fit in in Oklahoma.

But also I am sure there is an ABSN in CA I can get into for under 43,000. There are a few at around 30,000. I "think" when I posted this I was wonderring about the state schools. I don't think there is a single state school that has less than 600 or 700 applicants for 50 or so sports. Many of the state schools have 1000 or 1,500 applicants for 50 or so slots.

Anyway thanks for the info though. Good luck to you as well.