<p>I got into UCI but with my alt. major biological science. </p>
<p>I also got into CSULB with pre-nursing science. </p>
<p>I want to be a nurse practitioner as my career. </p>
<p>Now my question is which school should i go to? </p>
<p>I know i can try my hardest to try to change my major into nursing science at UCI but i heard that it is extremely hard and thats what worries me. Im afraid to go to UCI and end up not getting admitted to nursing science and ended up 4 years in Biological science with no future goal in career. But my passion to go to UCI for nursing science is very strong too. </p>
<p>Please help me out with the best advice... should i risk it to go to UCI? or should i not take my chances and got to CSULB.. .i really want to be a nurse practitioner..</p>
<p>If you got accepted to CSULB for pre-nursing, go for it. UCI, I hear from nurses, is amazing but I also know nurses that went to other schools and they are still awesome nurses, nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners.</p>
<p>If I were you, in this acceptance market, I’d go for the sure thing. Good luck and thanks for pursuing your goal. NPs are awesome.</p>
<p>CSULB has been known for its nursing program for decades…</p>
<p>If you like the campus and area, then go there. </p>
<p>When you say that it’s hard to switch from bio to nursing at UCI, what are they telling you besides that it’s very difficult? Do you have to have a certain GPA? or what?</p>
<p>@Mme thanks for the encoragement 
NP 4eva!</p>
<p>@mom this is their requirement for changing students.</p>
<p>[UCI</a> Change of Major Criteria: College of Health Sciences](<a href=“http://www.changeofmajor.uci.edu/CoM_HlthSci.html#ns]UCI”>http://www.changeofmajor.uci.edu/CoM_HlthSci.html#ns)</p>
<p>Go to CSULB. You’ll be much more relaxed/happy at college knowing that you’re starting out in the program you want to be in. If you were unable to change majors at UCI, it could really set you back and you might have to look at transferring to another school for nursing.
I transferred after my soph. year and got my BSN at a different state u. than my original sch. (where I was already in the nursing program). I ended up having to go a fifth year because some credit from my original state u. didn’t transfer to my second school. Also the second university’s nursing program required some classes that the first did not. I would def. recommend going with the sure thing,CSULB</p>
<p>So Itz not worth trying to risk it. Do think a plan like going to uci try to get into their nursing program by Sophmore year and if I don’t get in transfer back into CSULB ?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t because nursing school is so competitive and hard-core, you are not going to need the additional stress. Especially since you need a graduate degree <em>anyway</em>–that’s not included in the school you got accepted to, is it?!?–you could always try to finish up at UCI with a master’s.</p>
<p>Let me put it this way. Even if you were studying something “easy”, like English lit, I would say you really do not want to have to deal with changing because you are going to be busy.</p>
<p>But what you are essentially doing is pre-med, but with a different angle. It’s incredibly competitive, fast-paced, and just plain hard. I know a lot of nurses who only did the RN and their classmates were dropping like flies.</p>
<p>In the end you will be nursing and very, very few patients will be looking at your degree. They want to know you’re certified, possibly your concentration and GPA if they are REALLY picky, and that’s it.</p>
<p>I can tell that you were really hoping for UCI and I understand because it is such an interesting program (my mom actually did her, what do you call it, internship? there–she’s an RN). However as I said… there’s always the master’s!</p>
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not a good idea. As you’ve probably noticed, CA is in a big budget crisis. One of the steps that has been considering is to stop accepting xfers to the 4-year state colleges except from Community Colleges. Maybe this happens, maybe it doesn’t, but you’re betting your entire life on it not happening if you don’t get into the nursing program.</p>