Nursing pre-reqs

[cookderosa]

Hi,

Yes, Clovis CC is amazing and cheaper than anything around here. I can actually afford this school! Thank you! I looked into doing the same thing as your friends... getting into a paramedic program first. To be honest, I feel a bit defeated... everything seems like a huge hurdle right now.

Jennifer, thanks for the answer regarding if transcripts show course delivery on them. I think taking them online via a school like CCC is the only way I can take them anyway, so it will have to be good enough. I love the idea of open book... I wish Ocean's classes weren't so expensive!

Yes, they are a little high. One thing with online labs, always find out ahead of registering what your lab cost will be. At Ocean, for instance, lab packs were about $200 each (!) plus a microscope. These costs are after you pay tuition/fees. I actually ended up buying two microscopes (about $150 and $200) because I needed a way to upload photos of my slides (mainly for micro, A&P wasn't so bad). The required one uses an oil immersion lens (waste of money imo) and the second was from Walmart of all places, and it had a digital camera eyepiece, so you could upload pics directly into your lab reports. It's not as high of quality, but was veryyyy easy to use. Anyway, you'll want to find out all of this in advance because it can cost big $. I justified the costs because we homeschool, and my kids can use the tools I bought for the classes. I have TONS of left over beakers, test tubes, etc.