I am a nursing student, my first year trying to make it into the nursing program. I was awarded a scholarship of $4,690 during my senior year in high school. The amount given was divided into two semesters. An advisor has given me the advice to take a lot of classes, which I did. I took 6 classes which were 19 credits in one semester. My scholarship also required me to be in school full time so I went with it. After looking at my transcript it is so bad I can’t even look at it without being upset. I am afraid once the scholarship organization sees it, they will not let me have the rest of my scholarship. What should I do?
Try your best!
Possibly do well in the upcoming tests and qualifications and see what you can do.
Academics are not entirely a basis for scholarship: EC’s are quite substantial.
Improve your EC’s and scores and just try…
perhaps you will not lose the scholarship!
Good luck!
Fire your advisors. That’s a lot of classes for a first year.
Remember: Full time in college is 12 credits. 15 is the average amount you need per semester to graduate from a typical unversity in a typical major. I would not take 19 in a semester unless you have a strong reason for it.
Taking more credits in a semester because you have a scholarship won’t help…unless you can save an entire semester over the long run…but I am not sure if you can do that with nursing as you have patient hours you do as well.
Does your scholarship have a GPA that you have to keep?
how bad is your transcript?
You may be put on academic suspension if it is bad enough.