Hi everyone! I am currently going to community college and want to apply to UCI or UCLA as a nursing major. I currently have a 4.0 gpa and have been volunteering at a hospital but there are some classes that are not offered at my community college that are prerequisite classes I need to finish in order to transfer. Will they reject me just because I did not do those classes??
What pre-req courses will you be missing? Are there any other Community colleges in the area that offer these courses?
I am missing Biochemistry, Genetics, Public Health, and Ethics. There are two community colleges that are pretty far from me that do have those prereqs but they do not have all of those missing prerequisites at one community college. I would have to drive around to different community colleges to just finish my prereqs which is a hassle. The community college that I am attending does have Biochemistry and Ethics but on Assist it says “no course articulated” which doesn’t make any sense. I don’t know if it is worth going through all of that to just apply to UCI and UCLA.
Since Nursing school admissions are so highly competitive at all California schools, I would try to see if you can find these courses at another CC or on-line perhaps. I linked the Nursing transfer pre-req’s for UCI and I do not see an Ethics course requirement on the list nor do I see it as a UCLA requirement. Biochemistry and Genetics are also not a UCLA requirement but are required for UCI.
Have you spoken to your CC transfer advisor whom should have experience with Nursing transfers and what they ave done about the missing courses?
https://nursing.uci.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Transfer_Requirements.pdf
UCLA Nursing transfer requirements:
Course Requirements
Required:
One year of general biology for the major (cellular and molecular)
One year of general chemistry for the major
One semester of organic chemistry for the major
Human anatomy with lab
Human physiology with lab
One course in calculus for life science or with analytic geometry
Strongly recommended:
Introductory or general microbiology
Introductory psychology
Introduction to communication or speech