I think Purdue offers an alternate major.
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Are the merits, if any, generally going to be with the acceptance letter?
Congratulations on Iowa acceptance with merit! And good luck on nursing app!
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If it helps to know what schools are offering - Pitt offered my daughter a $60k scholarship (one month after acceptance).
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Just FYI on Pitt, they sent my daughter a message in her portal today offering her a $60k scholarship (over 4 years, not per year). Not sure if that would be enough to help, but it sounds like they are still offering merit!
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Merit offers for both Iowa and Pitt came about a month after acceptance for my daughter.
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Wow! 60k (15k/yr) scholarship must be a top merit! Congrats!
Thanks, she was very excited! All of her apps are now in, so now we wait to see about the rest!
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This is amazing! My D also received a merit offer yesterday from Pitt and it was only $20k ($5k per year).
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Does anyone know anything about the University of Minnesota and their direct admit program?
Congrats to your daughter! my daughter was admitted to Iowa a few days ago (and also still has to do the second part for nursing still), hoping to hear soon on Merit
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Our daughter received her first Direct Admit Nursing acceptance, at Illinois State University. She’s happy to have one, it is a great program but not necessarily her first choice. She’s still waiting to hear from Marquette, Loyola, DePaul, Purdue, Indiana, Butler, and Iowa (she’s admitted there, the rest of the nursing app is due in December). She applied to SIU-Edwardsville as a potential safety, but now that she’s in at ISU she would go there if she doesn’t get into any of her top choices.
I *think Loyola is rolling so it could be any time, but not sure what to expect there. The others are all later.
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Any new updates?
I always tell parents to expect their nursing student will need a car the last 2 years of college for clinicals. My clinical groups start at 6am and are not always near public transportation (nor are there often early morning times that work for what is needed.)
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Very very competitive with few getting this. Do not get your kid into debt expecting to have this as a payment plan. I cannot stress that enough!
The number of students accepted to the Nurse Corps Scholarship Program varies from year to year:
- 2019: 227 students were accepted
- 2022: 567 students were accepted
Considering… The all-time high for enrollment in BSN programs was 256,578 students in 2021.
Not great odds.
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I teach in a snowy state and have many students from sunny states who have never experienced winter driving. Of course we encourage students to be safe. However, unless the school cancels clinicals (which is rare), do note that “not feeling comfortable driving in the weather” is not an excused absence and her grades would reflect that.
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Pitt has moved more towards need based aid than merit.
Clinicals typically are on/close to campus or a short public bus ride.
I would also put Pitt nursing as a reach. They only enroll around 200 students each year. Limited space for instructors and clinicals. I’m guessing admit rate is under 20%. Probably lower.
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We have looked at U of Minnesota for my D26 (current junior) who is strongly leaning towards direct admit nursing when she applies next year, and we have done general campus information sessions/tours twice (once with D26 and once with S20). We also have family in the area.
Minnesota has 118 nursing seats to fill each year. I took a photograph of the “middle 50 percentile” slide from the general information session. For nursing, the middle 50 percentile “Core Academic GPA” is 3.84-4.0, ACT is 27-32, and SAT is 1300-1450. The “Core Academic GPA” is unweighted and based only on math, ELA, science, social studies and foreign language courses. Rigor is separately considered. [Side note, this was the highest GPA listed for any of their colleges; nursing test scores skewed slightly lower than engineering and biological sciences, and about the same as the Carlson School of Management.]
Based on stats I found online, last year, Minnesota received 1059 nursing applications, accepted 289, for the 118 seats. So an acceptance rate of roughly 27%
The campus is urban, but has a classic quad and green spaces. The nursing school is conveniently located on the main campus and close to everything including public transportation and the main quad. I am not sure where all of the clinicals are located since I have never done a nursing-specific information session or tour. However, about a block from the the nursing school is the University of Minnesota Medical Center (the flagship location of M Health Fairview).
There is a nursing LLC for freshman located in Frontier Hall, which is one the “Superblock” dorms (a group of underclassmen dorms clumped together very near the heart of the main campus and about two blocks from the nursing school).
Let me know if you have any other general questions. Like I said, we have family very near and are quite familiar with the area.
Edited to add: U of Minnesota is still test optional this year, but the admissions person who was conducting the information session seemed to suggest that might change in the future.
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Thank you very much. My daughter is already into Pitt, but has also applied to UM.
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Are there stats if direct admit BSN program at UVA offer more seats to in-state vs. out of state? It seems the school itself does, but curious if the nursing program does.