Can anyone list me any direct admit nursing programs with good merit or need based aid?
I currently have a 3.9 gpa
•200 volunteer hours
•2 AP classes
Im from Texas,but open to colleges across the U.S.
What’s your budget? a 10K merit award won’t do much for you if the sticker price is tens of thousands above your budget…
I’m trying to keep my cost below 15k a year if possible
Room and board alone at most universities runs about $15,000. A lot of colleges tie merit to test scores as well.
University of New Mexico has a direct admit nursing program. With your grades, you’re be eligible for the LUE+ scholarship which would give in-state tuition and fee.
Instate COA tuition $11,210. Room & board (traditional dorm) $12,328. Total $23,548
You may qualify for additional merit, but that’s not guaranteed.
More than $15K, but still fairly low priced.
One school you may want to consider is U. of Louisiana - Lafayette:-It’s not a direct admit program, but it has a pretty low bar for continuation past the pre-nursing phase. Essentially, all prereqs need to be passed with a “C” or better and one needs to have at least a 2.8 GPA. Requirements | LHC Group · Myers School of Nursing. You will need a test score, but depending on what that test score is, you could potentially get the costs to below $10k/year. Have you taken the SAT or ACT?
Is that unweighted ? What is your test score ?
my son got in here and the nursing school gave him an additional 5K off the first year in addition to instate tuition as an OOS student.
Can I ask what some of his stats were?
I have only taken the psat and my score was pretty low with a 960. My gpa is unweighted u believe
OK - so almost all As.
Direct Admit:
Marshall U has a tuition, room and board cost of $27,042. I do not know if nursing has a sub costs - but this is this year and does not include books, travel, etc.
You would get $5,000 merit.
So it’s not $15K - but it’s very low.
Not Direct Admit
UNC Pembroke and W Carolina are not on the direct admit list. I did not study the programs but both are NC Promise Schools and unless there’s a nursing sub fee, both will be under $20K all in.
Central Michigan - It’s $27,324 with an increase of $1K the last two years. You’d get $5K merit. Again, not direct admit.
Tx Tech is $22594 - with $3K merit.
So that’s one direct admit and three not (sorry).
My feeling on direct admit is - while I love it, if you aren’t passing the pre reqs on the non-direct admit, you might not make it in nursing anyway, regardless of the program.
Maybe I’m wrong - but it’s how I think.
I know @AustenNut pulled up some doozy of programs at Texas schools at another thread - like possible free tuition - maybe they have nursing.
Best of luck.
Correction that’s my gpa weighted
Some will go by weighted and some by unweighted.
That said, you can review each school’s merit page to see - I suspect you’ll find TX schools and the two I mentioned in NC the cheapest and Marshall amongst the cheapest direct admit.
Hopefully, between a small loan and summer work, you can make that delta. Or perhaps your family can stretch a bit more.
Best of luck.
Can you calculate your unweighted GPA?
Also, for your in-state public universities, what is your class rank?
My school has not released our official class rank as they said they are waiting to release it our senior year. Last year when it was available I was in the top 6% however I’m unsure if that has dropped or gone up:)
It seems you wouldn’t be - but even so:
- You have budget issues - will you qualify for low income programs?
- Admission into a university is not admission into a major
- It doesn’t appear any Texas schools are direct admit but correct me if I’m wrong - but that might be a tradeoff.
Another program to consider–New Mexico State University.
Not a direct admit, but the requirements to continue into the nursing program from pre-nursing look fairly reasonable–
- Applicants must achieve a minimum nursing pre-requisite GPA of 2.75 in order to be eligible to apply to the BSN program.
- Students can repeat a nursing pre-requisite course one time for a grade replacement; however, a repeated course does not count towards the minimum 15-credits required to retain merit-based scholarships per NMSU’s policy.
- Science and Statistics classes can be no older than 7 years at the time of application.
- The GPA of accepted students is generally higher than this minimum
NMSU accepts 64 students/semester into the nursing program. (Plus an additional 24 each fall from the Alamogordo campus and 8 from the Grants campus.)
If you live within 135 miles of El Paso/Las Cruces, you are eligible for a tuition discount at NMSU which will reduce tuition cost to in-state levels.
https://schoolofnursing.nmsu.edu/nursing/son-pages/bsn-program-costs.html
Pre-nursing tuition, fees, housing & meals $20,786/year
Pre-nursing is 3 semesters.
Merit is available, but not guaranteed.
Thank you , your recommendations have been so helpful!
Depending on what your family’s income level is, there are some generous programs via the Texas publics. Most of the programs listed below were for families earning $85k/year or less though I think the Sam Houston one was for families earning $50k or less/year. I’m going off of memory, though, so you should definitely confirm with the schools’ websites.