R.,
My hubby is at Texas Woman's (TWU) in Dallas and is finishing his BSN. He has met people from the community colleges during clinicals. I'm sure the 2 year route would be fine. It really depends on what you want and if you will do the bridge program later. To get into management/clinical ladder or grad school, you'll need your BSN at some point. But, if you do the 2 year plan, then you can get the hospital to pay for the bridge. Just depends. My hubby already had almost all of the core classes for the BSN done so it didn't make any sense for him to do the two year. But if you are just starting out and can take the one or two semesters of prereqs rather than the 4 semesters and get it done, then that might be better for ya. Good luck!!! Oh, and one other thing...the grades do matter. My hubby's entering Junior II class at TWU...the cutoff GPA was a 3.70 to get in (if you had really good nurse entrance test scores) but my hubby had a 3.88 and very high test scores on the NET. However, he told me that this semester for the upcoming spring, the cutoff was a 3.88 and there were people with a 3.9 and average NET scores that were turned away or waitlisted. It is very competitve now because of the stability and the economy. Good luck!!!
