Currently have a 2.625 GPA weighted right now, live in Southern California . My grades are slightly improving now because I started trying unlike my freshman and Sophmore year.
Anywho are there any colleges that accepted 2.625 Weighted GPA? Also got a 1150 on my SAT(first try)
By the end of Junior year it’s probably going to be a 2.8+ Weighted
http://www.calstate.edu/sas/documents/ImpactedProgramsMatrix.pdf indicates that nursing (BSN) is impacted at all CSU campuses, though RN->BSN is not impacted at some campuses. A large number of community colleges do offer RN/ADN programs: http://www.rn.ca.gov/education/rnprograms.shtml .
Note that many schools do not have direct admission to the nursing major; students enter in pre-nursing (which may be more competitive admission than the school overall) and then must compete for entry to the nursing major based on college record after the first year or two.
Getting a RN thru an ADN program at a community college and then going to a 4-year to get a BSN is an increasingly popular path. As mentioned in post #2 it offers higher odds of ending up with a BSN than trying for a direct-admit program (which you are unlikely to get into given your GPA) or winning out in the competition at colleges where you can only apply for the nursing program junior year.
The caveat, and it is a big one, is you need to be really sure you want to be a nurse. If you do not have experience in a patient care setting such as thru volunteering by the time you need to apply next Fall then I would not recommend an ADN program. Should you start one and then discover after a year or so that you don’t really want to go into nursing after all then it is harder to make a path forward to a BA/BS degree than it would be at a 4-year where you can just change majors.
Does your high school offer a CNA program, or is there one you could enroll in next summer? That would give you an immediate opportunity to try the career field on for size, and would give you access to decent-paying part-time work. Some employers will help a CNA pay for studies in an ADN program, and eventually the BSN.