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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).
Advice?
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