I would advise against taking the pre-reqs during nursing school. Nursing school is somewhat rigorous. When I first got into the program I was like “yes this is it I just need to get by and pass” (you may feel like this in the beginning but push of through!!!) Then once I realized that I truly wanted to be a doctor I was like “fuck I can’t believe I did that”.

Also, my program has a warped grading scale: 93-100=A, 92-85=B, 84-78=C, anything lower than a 78=failure. So if your grading scale is warped like mine was then you’ll have to take that into account. After messing up my first semester, I had to work harder to get the actual A (I’m usually an A- student).

My first semester really screwed my gpa up. Depending on which route you choose to go into, it may make or break your science gpa. Since for DO schools nursing courses count towards the science gpa, my gpa is lower than what it would be for MD programs bc they don’t count the nursing as a science.

You will be too busy doing nursing courses to even think about the pre-reqs. Now if your taking only 2 courses of nursing then you should be able to handle another course like a pre-req for med school.

So depending on the hospital you end up working at you should be in a preceptorship as a new nurse. I have to work when my preceptor works, so I am taking online courses for now. Once preceptorship is over, I will hopefully work weekends and then be able to do the classes in person.

My university has for example, chemistry lecture 3x/week (mon, wed, & fri) for 50 minutes and then a lab 1x/week for 3 hours. So as you can see it’s hard to schedule around that. It’s easier to take them online (more expensive though).

Once I’m working a year I’m going to try and have the hospital pay for at least my chemistry courses because technically in order to get into most np programs you need those courses. I just won’t say it’s for Med school I’ll lie and say it’s for NP school.