09-10-2009, 11:42 AM
cookderosa Wrote:>>Thank you for your reply.
You can get your RN with either a diploma, associate degree, or bachelor's degree. But, all must have clinical. You can (like I am doing) take your non-clinical classes online. In fact, the college I am applying to even has a few nursing classes online, but they are only for the enrolled students.
Many community colleges have waiting lists, but many do not! It's the prereqs that kick your butt time-wise. Everyone I looked at require:
Anatomy and Physiology with lab 1 and 2 (1 yr sequence)
Microbiology (A&P 2 is a prereq)
and others....putting you at a minimum of 3 semeters for those...but....MANY schools have biology w/lab and chemistry w/lab as pre-reqs to A&P...many schools require algebra for chemistry lol...you can see the years adding up. Many students will say that it took a full 2 years including summer (6 semesters) to just meet the nursing pre-reqs. I found a way to do it in 3 semesters.
At our community college, they have up to 120 applicants for 30 slots each term. BUT, if you already have a degree, that's big points- and if you have a great GPA, that's huge points. (this is my second choice school, and it's an associate degree)
My first choice has virtually no waiting list because (a) a mountain of pre-reqs keeps the applicant pool small (b) it's expensive © it's accelerated, so you can't work. (this is my first choice school, it's a bachelor's degree)
Off topic, if anyone is looking for online sciences in the fastest way possible, I have saved a lot of links to colleges that do not require pre-reqs for the pre-reqs, just email me.
Are there certain courses that they don't allow you to CLEP? I do have a BS in an unrelated subject with 42 CLEP and 6 DSST credits. Most of them are general ed. Obviously, the NaturalSci CLEP that I took won't count, but what about math, English, humanities? Does it make a difference?