I am not sure where you live but I know I live in PA and its almost impossible to get into nursing school. I got in through a local hospital! Granted I had to withdraw 6months ago, but they will send me back again when the program comes up again! Check your local hospitals, big hospitals. From what I understand alot of hospitals are trying to eliminate LPNs and just have RNs. Every hospital around me runs nursing programs part time and they except almost everyone. Granted you do have to pass the entry test I forget what its called here its been 3 years since I took it, but it as long as you pass that you are in. Don't give up honestly I felt like you 3 years ago, then when I was told about hospitals offering that I was accepted into a program within months. Just start calling up human resources at all the local hospitals because they don't advertise these programs! Good Luck hun! Don't give up trust me where there is a will theres a way!!!

worrywart, your community college should offer a 2 year nursing program. This will give you your ADN, associate degree of nursing. With this degree you are qualified to take the state boards- NCLEX exams. You will be an RN with the 2 year program. If you want to go on and finish your bachelor degree you can. Some people finish right after getting their RN. Others wait to finish and others never bother. So you should not be looking at 4 years. You can get your RN in 2 years and go to work as an RN. You need to have prerequisites completed to get into the nursing program - anatomy and physiology, microbiology, maybe math (depends upon what you have taken already). Many 2 year programs have a waiting list so you may have to be patient.

Hang in there. If this is what you want to do you need to keep trying. I hope you will consider all your options, even the community college. I went to a 2 year program at the local community college. It was difficult. I did little else but study during those years. My social life was on hold. I wanted and needed to get through the program. You make the sacrifice but the rewards at the end are worth it.

If you need more info you can pm me. Keep the faith. You can do this!

yea i'm aware of the community college stuff and hospital programs but my situation is that i've been in a university for THREE years now..i was originally a biology major going into college with credit from AP courses in high school..so i was actually AHEAD..anyway, after freshman year i changed my major to nursing(which set me behind bc i was taking courses for BIOLOGY majors since i had gone in with credit for college) and then sophomore year I decided to transfer back home to a university closer to me which set me even further behind!!!! because not all the classes transferred.. and I'm DEADSET on getting my BSN..i know i can get an associates after 2 years but then I'd have to go into the RN to BSN program to get to where I wanna be!!! AHHHHH!! That means another 4 years of school!!!!!! The RN to BSN program at my current university is a 2 year program.. i cant take it! I've been in school 3 years already! I should be graduating! It just sucks!!!!! I'm definitely applying everywhere in the spring though...I really cant afford to waste anymore money on taking classes I dont need I've taken every single prereq course that I need AND i'm working on a minor just to buy time bc I can be out of school or I have to start paying my loan and with the 2 jobs I have right now I STILL cant afford that...its just so hard i'm planning on applying to a private university near me(which 2 of my friends got into but they didn't get into the university we're currently at) the only problem is tuition is like 22grand if you live on campus and even if you commute its still like 15 grand, they give you about a 4500 merit based on your gpa with is still 10 grand and my loan only covers like 4 grand..so basically i'm gonna have a grand ol' time coming up with 6000 dollars so that I can get to where I need to be....there is such a need for nurses but getting into nursing school is ridiculous!!!

hi worrywort01,

wow i saw your poating and i thought i was reading my story. i live in miami and im going through the same thing. when i first started school i was so not focused on what i wanted to do with my life. i took classes to please my parents. then i lost a good friend to cancer and that experience has changed my life forever. i started to take nursing pre-reqs and did well. I HAVE all A and B IN MY PRE REQ. chemistry gave me a hard time but after 3 times i passed it with a B in lecture and a B in lab. LOL
now with a 3.1 gpa the one and only school i applied to is giving me a hard time because i took it too many times.so now im writing appleals and much more. here 1200 people applied for fall and i was just told that only 125 will get in. i am trying to remain positive but how can i???? i bartend now and would do anything to get a job in the hospital. however, i can not afford an 10-15 dollar an hr job. i took a cna class thinking that would help but i need more money to live off. so i never went to take the state exam. im lost and confused with my life right now... i just want to do the right thing but at this point im not sure what that is???? not to metion when i was taking chemistry, i saw sooooo many students cheat thier way through that class and to know they may get in and im stuck bartending. i cant afford a big school so i applied to a 2 yr program. but it doesnt look to good for me.i opened up my computer and came accross this website, your posting let me now im not alone! THANKS

p.s
Write me.