Class of 2016 Nursing Admissions!!

charlieschm
Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:15:40 +0000

That background should earn merit money from many schools. As another person noted, you are often not competing for merit money against the other nursing students, you typically are competing among the whole student body. That makes it easier. Of course, there are some colleges that don’t provide any merit money, but with 15 schools you should have covered your bases.

My daughter applied to 10, which should have been cut down to 7, but I knew that if she didn’t get into her favorite colleges, it might be too late to apply to safeties. A few colleges said they wouldn’t accept any nursing applications after November 30th.

I’ll probably end up having to put in a deposit for her to one of the colleges before she hears from all of them. At worst, she’ll lose $300 if she picks another college. That college says that if she doesn’t send in a deposit early in the year, she may be placed in a track that takes an extra semester to graduate. There also are many colleges that put you in a triple room if you don’t put your deposit in early.