Just popping into this thread to add another program I didn’t see listed (apologies if it’s been mentioned):
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She did not pick USC. She picked Tennessee and is in their honors program. USC Smart Start would have been fine and we weren’t concerned about doing that as well.
I think she didn’t choose it for a variety of reasons. 1–They offered honors so late that USC hadn’t been on the table as it wasn’t DA for her until mid-April. 2– she didn’t love campus or Columbia. 3 - she grew up wearing Clemson stuff and might not have wanted me showing up on Thanksgiving weekend cheering for the other team of the school she really wanted to go to (Clemson was far too expensive) 4 - and finally - we had an amazing visit last October at Tennessee with a new nursing building , larger community, airport in town, more moderate temps, etc. her final 2 were either Tennessee or Iowa…. But being away from home and so many people from her HS is going to be good for her so Tennessee won out.
She ended up with several choices that cost the same or less than our state flagship. Ultimately she isn’t worried about passing the NCLEX and they were all great schools, so the choice was able to be based on purely where she thinks she will thrive and where she wants to spend 4 years
At either USC or Tennessee she would have also played her sport in addition to nursing and honors college….. maybe we should be more worried about the workload but we just arent
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We are in California - but we are willing to go anywhere.
Ideally a large school, but honestly, we will likely be limited by other factors, i.e. (tuition price (as close to 20K), Direct Admit, and where she can place with 3.5 and 1100/1200. Thank you!
I looked at Creighton - but it is 50K, Marquette 52, and St. Louis is 55K- which is too much.
. . . but I hadn’t looked at St. Louis University before - so thank you very much for the lead - I’ll take all the tips and information I can get. Thanks.
They give a lot of scholarship money and their app is free, so it might be worth applying to SLU! I think they offered my daughter over $40k per year.
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Wow! What a deal! Even if a school isn’t a direct admit program, it’s worth a look.
I believe Ohio State has a direct admit. Very Rah Rah
They offer a limited number of direct admit spots.
The trick with the #2 ADN option is that students can then enroll in a bridge program - bridge from RN to BSN relatively easily and inexpensively.
My son is applying to a few universities but he is also applying to a few ADN programs as safeties but even these safeties are not really safeties they are very competitive too. The requirements don’t look competitive but they get hundreds of applicants for about 50 seats and with the point system they use applicants still have to far exceed the requirements to get in. The point system for admission is basically GPA plus TEA or HESI score. They don’t care about ECs or volunteer hours etc. They give a few points for things like being a veteran and being a current or previously enrolled student at the college.
Covering our bases because his GPA isn’t super competitive. 3.5UW/4.5W high school transcript and 3.0 community college dual credit transcript 60+ hours.
His situation is a little unique since he went to a health care focused collegiate academy (early college high school). He is almost done with his associates degree through a dual credit program with the community college and local university early admission nursing academy so all his core classes will be done and all his nursing prereqs (college A&P1/2, microbio, chemistry, pathophysiology) before he graduates high school this year. He is also a certified PCT (patient care technician) and life guard. He is also taking the HESI and TEAS this fall. He is also taking 4 lower division nursing classes at UTA this senior year.
If all goes well he will transition to UTA nursing school which he is already part of their early admission nursing academy with a partnership with our collegiate academy. The other schools are backups. He has priority admission but not auto admission. He should progress with their program but we aren’t taking any chances. The course load has been very demanding. Frankly he would probably have better grades if he could have had a little lighter load but it wasn’t an option with this program. There is no flexibility. They don’t even offer any on level classes. They are all dual credit, AP or honors since 8th grade. It even required microbiology and chemistry at the community college this summer which was a lot and I wouldn’t recommend it! But his program required it. He wanted to do it and this was a really great opportunity that presented to basically get priority admission for direct admit to a nursing program.
UTA (BSN) direct entry due to the partnership with his collegiate academy high school. Not normally a direct entry for other applicants. But it is for our students due to a special partnership and getting all core courses, prereqs, and lower division nursing UTA courses done by senior year of high school. He had to apply and get accepted to UTA early admission nursing academy junior year of high school which he did. Now he has to get titers, get a good score on the TEAS, and apply by Jan 15 for official admission to the upper level BSN program starting in the fall of 2026 graduating with BSN 15 months later. If he doesn’t get in he will go to one of the options below.
Texas Tech Dual Degree BS Health Science/BSN (not direct admit. they start with the bs in human sciences courses and apply to nursing BSN. if they get in, they get a BS and a BSN. If they aren’t accepted to nursing, they still get their bs in health sciences and can apply to do an ABSN after.)
UNM- BSN Direct Admit
Tarrant County College- ADN would then bridge to BSN
Blinn College- ADN then bridge to BSN
Collin College- ADN then bridge to BSN
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We applied to Miami of Ohio because that is where my cardiologist’s daughter went. I didn’t expect it to end up cheap but she made it to the Presidential Scholars weekend and afterward even though she wasn’t a Scholar, they let her know that they were increasing her merit to be 100% tuition and fees. All she would end up paying was room and board. I honestly thought she would end up there. However, she really felt uncomfortable with the lack of diversity. And although USC is not very diverse (~72% white), it was more so than Miami (~80% white). Diversity was not something she thought would bother her initially, but when it came to the final decision, and being a minority, it started becoming more important.
Clemson didn’t give her a lot of merit - but did make it up with grants for the freshman year package - making it as cheap as USC. I just couldn’t trust that they would be that generous in future years.
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