BSBA to BSN at TESC via Accelerated BSN Program

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Hunter91, I was sharing some of my personal anecdotes, and your experience may have been different.

Our local CC requires you to get a CNA on the way to the RN. it's not optional.

And, because the program is so impacted (I had a friend get a call 3 years after she applied), almost everyone that gets in has a 4.0. Our school has a point system, which is heavily weighted towards grades - you get more points for higher grades, and since only 30 students get in each year, and thousands apply, they end up with the best GPA's getting accepted into the program.

Yes, students have to pass the TEAS to get into the program, but our local CC also requires people to pass the TEAS with 100% before letting them take the NCLEX. This is not uncommon in many schools - they want a high NCLEX pass rate, so they have all sorts of ways to weed out anyone who isn't going to pass. You can look on other threads on this forum and AllNurses to see that my local CC is not the only one who does this - it's rampant in the industry.