applying to UCLA for nursing as a transfer student from a private university?

So you’re at an expensive school and the odds are less than 1-in-3 that you get into their nursing program. Given you are last on the priority list a xfer to UCLA may happen but is probably not in the cards either.

There is an alternative plan you should consider. Instead of a 4-year program at one school you could get an RN at a community college (an ADN degree) and then go to one of the RN->BSN programs. With an RN you have a marketable skill that you can upgrade; with 2 years at your current school if you don’t get into the nursing program you do not.

If you start down this alternate path took for a good NCLEX pass rate at the CC. I know nurses that have done this, RN->BSN programs tend to be easier to get into. See http://www.rn.ca.gov/education/rntobsn.shtml for a list. Many are part-time and/or online, but some are campus based. Fullerton, for example, offers both online and on-campus

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