<p>Well I have a twin sister and we’re both applying to schools this year. (Me through arts and sciences/architecture and she through nursing). She applied to around 8 schools:</p>
<p>Minority- (Hispanic)
Female
3.6 GPA (unweighted) 3.9 weighted
1800 SAT
690 SAT II Spanish, 650 SAT 11 English
In honors classes
AMAZING essays, great recs</p>
<p>Now she had gotten deferred, from every school except for Maryland and Delaware (she hasn’t heard from them yet). And my family has been trying to comprehend how in the world this could happen. I mean Georgetown was kinda a given and maybe michigan, but Northeastern! What do you think is happening, and does she have a shot of getting in RD from any of these schools!?!?</p>
<p>She actually hasn’t heard from them yet ( I got into Arts and Sciences New Brunswick and Cook College). But from what she saw during an open house, she probably won’t get in
They take only 20 applicants out of over 500+. What should she do?</p>
<p>A deferral certainly does NOT mean pending rejection… it means that the schools would like to asses her application with the applicants in the RD applicant pool. She may, however want to add a few safety school applications to her list before the upcoming deadlines… from what I understand Nursing is a more competitive major than some others at certain schools. </p>
<p>What are some of your in-state schools with nursing programs? One of them may be a safety for her?</p>
<p>Ok the thing is, her grades aren’t amazing, her SATs aren’t amazing. Amazing essays, I believe can make up for one aspect of the application that isn’t amazing, not a whole average application.</p>
<p>I think she got a 580 Mat and a 650 reading (something around that). Well since we live in NJ, rutgers is the big state school, which she applied to. But the thing is that supposedly their nursing program is extremely competitive( like the pharmacy and dental schools). Shes applying to Seton Hall, Rhode Island, Loyola Chicago, UNC Chapel Hill (both Nursing and Arts and Sciences), Quinnipiac, and Scranton. But the thing is that she doesn’t like any of these schools…</p>
<p>its funny because my parents heard from the friend of an admissions representative from michigan that because this was the first year they had done the common app, they were overwhelmed with apps and only decided to pick the “superstars” from the EA round and defer everyone else. But what they had realized after the round was that they didn’t have enough diversity. Do you think this would be any help for her?</p>
<p>yea, i just think that if she had applied to michigan as LAS, she probably would have gotten in… what do you thinK? She says the reason the didnt was because you cant transfer into the nursing program (I personally think thats not true)</p>
<p>Im just shocked, is she that weak of an applicant? Even though I have a 3.8 unweighted average, I only have a 25 ACT and I got into better schools (UPitt, Wisconsin). So even though she has a higher standardized test score and lower gpa, we kinda balance each other out, no?</p>
<p>I think that the fact she did not take AP classes and her SAT score might have affected her chances. Nursing programs are getting very competitive these days. I really hope she applied to some safeties because none of those schools seem like they can be safeties to her, but rather high matches and reaches.</p>
<p>My sister(who is 20 now) had high stats than your sister, and she got rejected from many, many places. now she is at hunter college. </p>
<p>Did she do well in all of her bio, chem, physics, psychology courses?</p>
<p>well shes taking psych now and doing pretty well, not AP because they dont offer it at her school, and she only took bio and chem. Shes also taking anatomy honors, which shes also doing pretty well in.</p>
