Admitted into a university but not direct admit?

Jamrock411
Tue, 05 Jan 2016 17:36:33 +0000

The warning that the admission officer gave you is actually a heads up as to the degree of difficulty in gaining admission to the BSN program after your sophomore year. A lot of admission officers would not be as candid with this information. It appears that they accept a much smaller/lower number of students after year 2 and the competition is much stiffer than entering as a freshman and is more than likely, tied to attrition rate from the program. If the yield is high for any given year for pre-admits, gaining admission become an arduous task for individuals like yourself. In order for existing students, continuing beyond their sophomore year, is predicated on the “students who are admitted into the program as freshmen who are eligible to continue into upper-division nursing courses if they meet the following criteria:”

completion of all required courses in the freshman and sophomore curriculum prior to the fall semester of the junior year

+minimum 3.20 cumulative grade point average at the conclusion of all required lower-division coursework (Excess elective credit will not be counted toward this GPA requirement.)

minimum grade of “C” or better in all courses maintain full-time study at UT

completion of intent to progress form by January 20 of the sophomore year

A GPA of 3.2 seems to be the magic number and I suspect that in order for non-direct students to gain admission (to upper-division nursing courses), requires a GPA much higher than 3.2, especially where they are forced to accept more students than anticipated (high yield). An even more important question is whether the University of Tennessee (not “Tennesee” ) students have an “admission priority” over transfer students from other institutions.