Words of encouragement anyone???

[NursingN.C]

Hello everyone I am a community college transfer student going to a university next semester (fall). I've promised myself that if I finish with all A's last semester and this semester I would got to my dream school. The thing is they only take top notch grades. I'm not saying I don't have good grades, because my GPA is above a 3.8 i'm just so scared of the competition. I know I shouldn't be too worried considering the fact that i've taken all of my sciences and maths except for the ones i'm currently in Micro and inorganic and biochemistry and still have a good GPA. I'm more concerned with the fact that I didn't do my prerequisites at their college and that their students will have priority over me. I don't want to chicken out now I have faith in myself just some please give me some advice especially if you did you prerequisites at a community college and then transferred to a university.

[prettymica, ASN, BSN, MSN, LPN, RN, APRN, NP]

Believe in yourself and everything will fall into place :). HUGS

[toxic.waste]

3.8 is definitely top notch GPA! Don't worry and be confident!

At least in my area, schools aren't concerned about you doing your prereqs at their instituion, as long as you have good grades in them and they are transferable. If they give points for having them completed for acceptance, you will still get those points.

[Griffin123]

Keep up the good work Latroyashort! Although I am also a student at the community college level I have come across nothing in my research into this field that would indicate that a four year university would care either way. I have read that some CRNA schools care (not so much where you get it but *when* you got it). It seems they want the sciences to be taken fairly recently (i.e. within the last 5 years or so) but that's not written in stone. Most tend to try to look at the whole picture (GPA, GRE, experience, etc).

In short, I would be very surprised if any university fussed about doing science classes at a junior college instead of their own. Your GPA speaks for itself. Keep up the good work and never take your "eye off the ball". I think you're going to be where you want to be if you keep going as you have been. Keep up your hard work!

[NursingN.C]

Thanks so much guys hugs and kisses

[bigboi]

Don't defeat yourself. You have a 3.8 GPA, clearly you're serious about your academics or at least a good student. It doesn't behoove you to worry about the competition since you can't control what they do. Do the best you can and let the university handle the rest. With a 3.8 I'd say you've started on that path.

[Feistn]

Are you worried that university classes will be harder? Because my experience is that they're different, not harder. I had some easy As at both institutions, and I had some hard earned grades at both institutions. The things you are doing to be successful at community college are the same things you'll need to be successful at the university. Being proactive, coming to office hours, keeping up on the work, communicating with the teacher when your grade isn't what you expect/want. Before I graduated at the U of Minn, I was actually impressed with the community college transfers because they generally were so much more on top of it than the traditional university students. The one thing I would caution you about is the fact that the formats can be different. It might be a huge lecture hall with hundreds of students that takes 3-4 tests throughout the course of the semester and that's the only thing you're graded on. Not because it's the best way to teach, but because the professor doesn't want to do a lot of grading. Also, if your CC has an articulation agreement with the university, they already recognize that your CC has quality courses. They don't do that if the school sucks!