And I’ve only completed 4 classes so far…
During my first semester of CC, I took 3 classes and gotten a 3.7 GPA. Then after that I lost motivation on my other classes and kept dropping them and failing. As a result, I have many W’s and a couple of F’s.
I was young and stupid. I didn’t realize what I wanted and took education for granted. I worked for a little while as a restaurant server and was making quite a bit of money.
Then COVID-19 hit and I realized the importance of education. I loss my job. My dad lost his. My mom is carrying the entire family on her backbones right now. I am relying on unemployment and I usually run into problems with EDD.
I want to start over and transfer to my dream school, UCLA as a nursing major. But I have too many F’s and W’s.
I’m taking a winter class right now and I’m on track to getting an A. I really feel like I won’t screw up this time (or at least I’ll do everything in my effort to prevent myself from screwing up).
Is it possible that I can still get into UCLA nursing school if I make up all my F’s with A’s? What do I do with the W’s? Will it impact me?
Please help! I am regretting the fact that I screwed up so bad. Don’t be like me guys…
first of all i dont want to be rude but u have a chance of 90 percent chance of getting rejected your gpa is too low and u dont have extracurriculars there are just too many qualified and better candidates then you that they could choose from i have a tip for you tho try to take as many ap classes and try to get a’s on them and focus more on your extracurriculars try to develop a spike which means find your passion in your extracurriculars and get really good at it and try to win some national awards in it then you might have a chance of getting accepted
Even if I get a 4.0 GPA?
I have gotten a 4.0 throughout freshmen-junior year of high school so I know it’s possible for me to get this through community college.
I plan to go through academic renewal to take out the 3 F’s that I got.
I also plan to do a CNA program and start working at a hospital for a few years.
So you’re telling me that I have zero shot in transferring even if I do end up getting a 4.0 with good extracurriculars again?
alr then if u have a 4.0 and plan on to improve then u might have a higher chance and u can show theu ur essays why ur grades have fallen and how u have improved then ucla would love that and plus u need to focus more on ur extracurriculars and focus more on your extracurriculars try to develop a spike which means find your passion in your extracurriculars and get really good at it and try to win some national awards in it then you might have a chance of getting accepted then if you follow this u might have a 90 percent at getting in
best of luck for the future sorry if i was rude ! 
As someone else who was young and stupid, I too messed up. I tried and stalled in community college after flunking out my first semester away at school. I didn’t have the desire or drive or maturity to do the work at the time. I finally went back to school when my daughter was in high school. I graduated from a CC as an RN at 50. I have no plans to earn a BSN, but as a younger person you will need it. I say this to get you to focus on the ultimate goal, It is to become a nurse, not the short term goal of going to UCLA.
If you are truly ready to buckle down and do the work, go to a CC and begin the prerequisite classes for nursing-transfer at UCLA and for other Nursing programs. Talk to the Nursing program people at UCLA and ask how they will regard your past grades with and without academic renewal. Look at what is required to be admitted into the CC RN programs. Then look at RN to BSN programs. This is another way to the goal. Look at LVN programs to RN to BSN if those past grades will hurt you.
Nursing program admissions everywhere are very stats driven. Competition is fierce. When I applied over 500 applied for 110 spots. You need almost all A’s. The pre-reqs are very science heavy, Chemistry, biology, anatomy. etc. Try to balance your course load so you don’t overwhelm yourself with lots of lab classes at the same time. Good luck. I wish you well.
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I do not think that UCLA is something that you need to think about right now.
You need to focus on two things: Doing very well in your classes, and the goal of becoming a nurse. It sounds like these are two things that should both be possible for you. Experience in a medical environment is also likely to help you.
If you start stringing together a lot of A’s in tough classes, and get some good experience in a medical environment, then I think that the main issue will when you can get admitted to which nursing program.
Universities know that different students mature at different times in their lives. They want students who have shown that they can succeed. You need to start doing well and showing that you can succeed.
You definitely do not need to attend UCLA to get into a good nursing program and to do well as a nurse.
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