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Baylor School of Nursing is on there (#64) and it's located in Dallas which would be close to some good cheer programs! I don't really know anything about the requirements of the schools on this list or know about the different types of nurses, but I hope the list helps and that you can study in the US!

I attend the University of Pittsburgh and I believe the nursing program is ranked 7th in the country. My friends who are in the program have a very rigorous schedule and it would probably be hard to do cheer on top of that. But Pittsburgh Superstars and FCA are under an hour away (dont know exactly how far) and they usually have open teams.


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There are 2 types of nursing basically - LPN (licensed practical nurse) and RN (registered nurse). There are also CNA's which are certified nursing assistants, but that isn't a degree, it's a certificate. An LPN is I think an associates degree (2 year).

RN's can get an associates degree (2 year) and also go on and get a BSN which is a bachelors of science in nursing (4 year), but they would still be an RN as far as work purposes. They generally make a little more money than a 2-year RN (I've been told it's not much more though) and get to put BSN anywhere their name goes. Most hospitals here now really want the BSN for their nurses that they hire. My friends that have just a 2 year RN degree almost all have gone back to finish the BSN because they couldn't get the job they wanted without it, as new nurses coming into the field now (I think it didn't really used to be that way, so someone with an RN from 20 years ago would be fine without the BSN). The list linked above is graduate schools, so they're going to be Masters degree programs, which would require you to already have the 4 year degree completed; however many of those schools probably also offer the BSN program (Masters would be the MSN).

As for schools, I think your biggest problem is going to be that nursing programs here are very hard to get into. So even if you have great grades, most of them have very limited openings and they aren't going to want to give one of those openings to someone who is only staying for a year and not completing their program. One of the biggest factors they look at is long-term "Are you going to be able to stick it out to the very end and complete this program?" The nursing program I was in only accepted 24 students into the upper level classes (out of approximately 120 that started as freshmen), and we had to have a 3.25 or higher in the first 2 years already in their program and a recommendation from 2 professors. They didn't take anyone into the upper level (this would be years 3 and 4) who wasn't from within the school already, unless that person already had the associates degree and was a working nurse.

So that's not meant to be Debbie Downer, but just know that the better the program, the harder it will be to get them to take someone for one year. But it certainly can't hurt to ask! Maybe they would take you as an "extra" (like in my school you could have been a 25th person, knowing you weren't actually staying to get the degree from them?) I think your best bet is going to be to put together some sort of letter explaining what you want to do and send it to a bunch of schools and see what kind of answers you get about how they feel about letting someone in for only a year. Basically the best way I can think of to explain it is to say it would be like asking a cheer gym if you could be on a Worlds team for 2 months, but not during Worlds. But I really can't imagine that there's not a school somewhere that would do it.

The flexibility in these programs is virtually non-existent so cheer would be hard to do on top of it, but not impossible. So anyway I hope all this made sense (I know it's a lot of abbreviations to make sense of) and wasn't too depressing. Hopefully you can figure out a way! Good luck - I think it would be an amazing experience if you can come here!

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*Actually* As someone who took nursing as well I know firsthand that international students do not have as much trouble getting into the program as students living there. Requirements are more lax because you are paying MUCH more to be there than the american students. Nursing IS competitive for sure but if you're willing to pay the big bucks than trust me ...they'll let you in most likely lol. Sometimes $ speaks louder than grades unfortunately.

I can't comment on what schools would be best in the US because I'm in Canada but University of Waterloo offers a nursing program and Cheer Sport Sharks cambridge gym is only about 20-30 min away.

California Baptist, but I've been told that the nursing programs are rigorous and can't people cant handle both