The Gonzaga thing is a head scratcher for sure.
Hi!
I was admited to Pitt and Case Western for nursing 2029 and wondering if anyone has advice on choosing, either school or nursing specific . With merit aid Pitt would be ~65k/year (trying to negotiate for more scholarship money) and Case would be ~54k (these both include housing). LMK what you all think!
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Do you like either city more or have visited? Are you looking to possibly stay in either location after graduation and prefer the medical settings in one over the other? Clinical locations? Is there a preference to being closer to home, certain airport or driving time? A certain college experience or housing consideration like walkable campus from housing, etc.?
Those are just some things maybe to consider, outside of cost. Even though the numbers here are 54 and 65, once all the fees are considered and any other scholarship, maybe the numbers will be even closer where it doesn’t factor as much.
My daughter was also accepted to both and preferred Case because of the opportunities to do clinical sat the Cleveland Clinic. Both are fabulous nursing programs, congratulations 
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Yes, still waiting… you?
My D was accepted to PSU but Altoona and received the $6K/year for Nursing.
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Good to know that Altoona nursing students are eligible for the Discover Award and that you have already heard about the scholarship.
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Yes! I ended up calling right before Christmas just to make sure a letter had been sent either way. The admissions counselor said that they had a much larger applicant pool for nursing than expected. She said they hadn’t made all decisions yet, their office is closed December 23-January 3, and we probably wouldn’t hear until after that. So still waiting! My daughter absolutely did not want me to call BUT she was glad to know that she still had hope and could stop checking the mail relentlessly through Christmas break!
How is she doing now? I have gotten into Pitt nursing, she should definitely apply, it’s rolling admission.
Pitt rolling admission has surprised me, as I thought that it being rolling we’d hear sooner than the EA ones. We still haven’t heard from them and applied back in October. It’s turned out ok though, so not really interested too much anymore because we did get some EA back that are good options.
Sorry to hear that! It’s definitely strange and makes you wonder what admissions is looking at beyond the grades, test scores, etc. Nursing is insane. My D25 sent out a LOT of applications because we just didn’t know if she’d make the cut with good grades and an overall attractive student with respect to work, activities, etc.
I have a list as well. Would you like to share lists?
Absolutely! Send me a message…
I am really struggling to gauge how competitive an applicant my D26 will be – it has been hard to figure out which schools make sense to target.
Mine is Class of '26 as well and YES…same boat…very hard to gauge. What is a safety or target for many of her same stats friends for a different major feels very uncertain for her as a nursing candidate!
I will start a Class of 2026/2030 “creating a bsn college list” thread - for all of us early birds. It would be great to collectively pool our info
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sounds amazing
I would love this thread as well- I have a D26 nursing applicant!
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It’s good for you all with 2026 and later beginning to look at developing a list. We didn’t really have ours until senior year, well except for two schools decided on in junior year. But, even now we’re still undecided what the decision will be. All outcomes should be back in the next four weeks. Except for Pitt 
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Also still waiting on Pitt from a late Oct application. My senior contacted the POC in her portal and got a reply saying 6-8 weeks from submission despite it already having been well past that already.
For next years group: She had a 3.8UW/4.1W GPA with 6 AP classes, decent extracurriculars and great letters. No test scores. Competitive CA public school. Some similar outcomes to the group here. Accepted by Creighton, Seattle, UArizona, CWRU, Loyola Chicago, Portland, UMass Boston, PLU. Similar merit aid with total costs ranging from high 30s to 50s/year with Portland, Boston and CWRU being the most expensive and PLU being the least.
Waitlisted by Gonzaga and deferred by USF(CA) and TCU. Waiting on Rutgers main campus and the CA public school lottery but obviously unlikely.
Doing some visits and working on choices. I think she’s leaning towards Arizona but we’ll see. Had a great visit there already. Its their first year doing DA and there will be a bit of a transition phase but overall its very appealing and I’ve been impressed by their organization and communication. Looking forward to her visiting Creighton too. I think Seattle, Loyola and possibly CWRU are still in the mix.
I would also say that the burden for supplemental essays was actually quite low as they were a lot of variations on the why us/why nursing theme that allowed her to recycle from one to the next (insert name of`nursing school simulation center here, etc). Many of the schools offer fee waivers with a little effort like attending an info session or contacting an alum etc. Deadlines can be quite early and so they should request letters as soon as they get back to school. She got her first couple acceptances in the first week of November. Good luck!
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