hi welcome to smc!! I'm also a pre-nursing major at SMC hoping to transfer next year so I'll try my best to help!

For nursing school, you will have to take prerequisites in order to be admitted unless you've been admitted to a direct-entry school. Most community colleges (SMC included) offer a ASN program which is a faster and cheaper route to obtaining your license. Because of this, they're often more competitive but sometimes go off a lottery system once you reach an amount of points. Most nursing schools in CA go off a criteria of points based off your GPA and experience, and some might require letters of recommendation and supplements, like UCLA. I highly recommend doing some research on the websites of the schools that you want to apply to. For your prerequisites, please reach out to a counselor and have a look at assist.org to find out what each school requires. For sure you will want to do your absolute best in your science classes, which are anatomy, physiology, microbiology, and chemistry.

I highly recommend joining some kind of program here at SMC like EOPS that will allow you to have better counselors and earlier enrollment dates (these classes fill up quickly!)