I am trying to finish up my prereqs as quickly as I can so I can apply to my CCs nursing program next fall. I have already taken two semesters of prereqs and still feel a little behind. I have registered my classes for next fall-- I'm taking a&p 1 lecture and lab and micro in class and I have nutrition, college algebra, personal finance, and sociology online. My school allows 18 credit hours max per semester- I'm taking 19 due to special permission by my advisors.
I have talked to my friends and asked them what/how many hours they are taking and most say 6, 9 at the most! I was floored!
Am I really stretching myself too thin? I want to keep my gpa up so I get a high score on my nursing application, but at the same time I don't want to take prereqs forever. The only classes I don't "need" are personal finance and nutrition, but I added them because I thought they were good courses, and they shouldn't add too much more to my plate (when talking with other students they said they are not hard).
i feel the same as you as far as wanting to finish everything quickly. i feel like there are so many people moving up the ranks and getting closer to applying that i need to hurry up and "beat" them to it. the advice i have gotten from all of my friends who have already finished or are currently in the program is to not take micro and a & p together, because as you know these class grades are so vital to your points and admission. i actually started crossing off pre reqs over the summer of '08 while i was pregnant and working full time, so i started out slow, one class for each summer semester and in the fall and spring i took two (i got screwed into remedial math since it had been 8 years since i graduated hs) so those 2 math classes ate up my credit hours i could have applied towards needed classes. i took the summer of '10 off, and this past spring i took stats at a private college so it was an accelerated 6 week course 2 nights a week, i wasn't able to take another class at my school during that class. i took marine bio in hs and my school is requiring me to complete an intro to bio class before i can take any higher sciences. i have been throwing in courses towards my bsn when other classes i needed for my as were already full, i have been going for so long but i don't feel like i am making any progress. this coming fall ('11), i am loading up with 3 classes, finally taking intro to bio, speech and spanish i. the only pre reqs for the program i have left are a & p and micro. i plan to take each of those one at a time paired with another bsn course, like writing intensive humanities, world history or my spanish 2 class. then when it is time to apply i can try at my local cc (state college now) and the university up the road, obviously the idea is to get my bsn at some point so i might as well take the needed classes now.
i'm taking 21 units this semester (anat, chem, human development, philosophy, speech, and psych) but i don't have any kids or a job! Also, at my school to be considered a full time student you need to take at least 12 units so 6 and 9 units for a semester is pretty low! i would say ditch all the classes you don't need. Also you are a brave soul for taking two science course and an upper division math class all at the same time. i took calculus last semester and it almost killed me! Good luck with your classes :]
sugar_britches
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i feel the same as you as far as wanting to finish everything quickly. i feel like there are so many people moving up the ranks and getting closer to applying that i need to hurry up and "beat" them to it. the advice i have gotten from all of my friends who have already finished or are currently in the program is to not take micro and a & p together, because as you know these class grades are so vital to your points and admission. i actually started crossing off pre reqs over the summer of '08 while i was pregnant and working full time, so i started out slow, one class for each summer semester and in the fall and spring i took two (i got screwed into remedial math since it had been 8 years since i graduated hs) so those 2 math classes ate up my credit hours i could have applied towards needed classes. i took the summer of '10 off, and this past spring i took stats at a private college so it was an accelerated 6 week course 2 nights a week, i wasn't able to take another class at my school during that class. i took marine bio in hs and my school is requiring me to complete an intro to bio class before i can take any higher sciences. i have been throwing in courses towards my bsn when other classes i needed for my as were already full, i have been going for so long but i don't feel like i am making any progress. this coming fall ('11), i am loading up with 3 classes, finally taking intro to bio, speech and spanish i. the only pre reqs for the program i have left are a & p and micro. i plan to take each of those one at a time paired with another bsn course, like writing intensive humanities, world history or my spanish 2 class. then when it is time to apply i can try at my local cc (state college now) and the university up the road, obviously the idea is to get my bsn at some point so i might as well take the needed classes now.
so far, i have completed:
nutrition
enc i
enc ii
psych
human growth & development
basic humanities
statistics
sociology