DD loved mizzou but won't be attending.

CoMoMom
Sun, 01 Mar 2015 02:30:08 +0000

@Jara123 The nursing program is very competitive at Mizzou. They typically have 2-3 times as many applicants as they have slots for the clinical major. Unfortunately they can’t admit more students due to the size of the building and the number of hospital beds in Columbia (and having to share them with other schools of nursing in mid-Missouri). If your D really loves Mizzou, I would strongly encourage her to pursue the Nursing Scholars and Honors programs. As a graduate of the Sinclair School of Nursing, I can tell you some of the most life changing courses that I took as an undergraduate at Mizzou were honors courses. I don’t mean to imply that I didn’t enjoy the nursing courses, but I had a strong background in science and math and the nursing courses just built on that. The honors courses that I took were not science courses, they were social science, humanities, and fine arts courses that rocked my world and changed the way that I looked at the world. 30 years later I still refer people to a book that I read in Honors Sociology. Furthermore, Mizzou is so much larger than it was “back in the day” when I was an undergraduate. The advantage of honors courses is that students can be in much smaller, more intimate courses with professors rather than large lecture hall classes. Just some thoughts from a die hard Tiger–M - I - Z- Z- O - U!!! BTW, Mizzou also has a pretty awesome football team too!