Hi there,
I'm posting for my cousin, who is having a rough time at the moment. She graduated with a 2.something from high school in 2015 and enrolled in the local community college this past academic year. She did great and got a 3.7 GPA her first semester, but she didn't score well on this test for nurses (I don't know too much about it) and thus didn't get into her desired nursing program (I don't know much about this program, either).
She's dejected and is considering just not going back in the fall since she didn't get into her program and doesn't know what else to do. Our family owns a business she can work at (so she'll have a job), but I'm worried that she'll "settle" like all of our relatives have and not even try to do anything else (I'm one of only a few people in our family to have gone to college).
I want to help her, but I don't really know how because our situations are so different (I got merit scholarships for undergrad whereas she's starting fresh at a cc). We're in Michigan and she knows that she definitely wants to do something health related, but I don't know if she'd be able to get many scholarships from our in-state schools. I know that Oakland University has a good selection of health programs and is probably close enough for her to commute (and thus shave on housing costs), but I don't know if her parents would pay the heafty tuition of a 4-year school (they're paying for her cc tuition now).
Basically, she's going through a funk, and I don't want her to throw away a possible future because she had a bad time as a 18/19 year old. I love her very much and I just want to help, but I also don't want to overstep my bounds or put too much pressure on her.
So, how do you all think I should move forward in helping her? Should I just accept whatever decision she makes, urge her to look at other medical programs, urge her to study for the test and reapply, etc? What kind of options does a student like her have in transferring to 4 year universities/finding other cc programs? I'd appreciate your input.
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