I saw that but then the rest of the wording confused me. Wondering if anyone here has a family member thats attended? I’m trying to plan college visits. Thx!
D24 has applied to several BSN programs (some DE and some pre-nursing). She’s heard back from a couple and should hear from more by the end of this month.
4.0 UW, 4.68 W Ranked 3 out of 680 students
Went Test Optional everywhere
11 APs and 2 Dual enrollment
Typical ECs with some leadership positions
Accepted:
Belmont - with merit
Pitt - waiting to hear if merit
Xavier - with merit
Waiting to hear:
UNC-CH
UNC-W
Clemson
Univ South Carolina
Marquette
Miami U - OH
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Was admitted to Florida Southern College’s Direct Entry BSN in October. 4.0 uw, 29 ACT. 6 AP’S and 4-6 honors course (I can’t quite recall the exact number). All A’s but I do not know my weighted GPA. 25k Pheiffer Scholarship + 2k extra Christoverson scholarship. Applied in the EA pool and heard back within 3-4 weeks.
Applied to UNF and was admitted. Declared major of choice was nursing and from that pool of nursing applicants they choose some to enter into their Direct Entry pathway (called FAN). Unfortunately, I was not chosen for this pathway, and will have to wait until junior year to begin nursing courses. However, I have heard great things about the FAN program and encourage anyone with an interest in nursing to look into it, especially those in state who qualify for Bright Futures because you would be able to attain a BSN degree for relatively cheap.
My daughter received a denial from USF School of Nursing today. It’s okay - she didn’t really want to go there, and now we wait for UCI, UCLA, and SDSU. Already admitted to ASU Direct Entry & UNR (pre-nursing). Good luck to everyone!!!
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UGH! I’m shocked. My D24 has similar stats and her counselor suggested USF as a safety! Ultimately, D24 decided she wasn’t going to apply (CA kid who wants to go OOS). I’m glad your daughter wasn’t “devastated”! Those two admits I’m sure help. Good luck to her with the state schools! It will be MONTHS from now… but keep us updated 
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My D24 has applied Early Action & Regular Admin to several Direct Admit BSN programs (and one non-Direct Admit):
3.89 UW, 4.012 W GPA on 4 point scale
27 ACT/28 super score, sent to some schools
Large public high school in Minnesota
6 APs, 1 IB, Anatomy & Physiology 1 and 2, Neuroscience, Forensic Science, NAR classes
Over 550 volunteer hours in high school to date
School’s Varsity Dance Team, Part time job- 2 years
Certified Nursing Assistant certification obtained, cardiologist mentor and shadow experience
Applied direct admit to:
West Virginia University - accepted
Arizona State University- accepted
Creighton - accepted
University of Minnesota Twin Cities- accepted
University of Iowa - only accepted for pre-nursing, separate application for direct admit nursing is pending
Purdue - pending
Indiana University - pending
University of Pittsburgh - pending
U of Connecticut- pending
University of Wisconsin Madison - NOT direct admit-pending
Applications were all submitted 11/1 or prior, but final results for some won’t be out until March 2024.
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Not sure why Belmont, being private, offers such low merit aid. They offered our daughter the same, $8,000, with her 3.5 GPA, 1360 SAT, impressive extracurriculars.
Other schools offered way more merit. She immediately r/o Belmont due to the low merit aid. Plus, she only applied there in case she did not get in elsewhere as the school seems too conservative. We are from CA.
She applied to all private, mostly religious schools, coming out of 13 years of Jesuit edu. Some offered $29,000 per year, all the way up to $41,000 per year. Belmont was the absolute lowest merit offer so far.
Our dtr had been accepted to 9 schools so far and we will visit the ones that she is considering.
BTY: Our son is in his second year in the BSN program at Marquette University and could not be happier. He just loved with Marquette and Milwaukee when we visited on the accepted student weekend. And the crazy thing is, that he only added it as a school to apply to because his HS counselor wanted him to max out the school max of 12 schools for applications. Low and behold, that is where he picked and loves it. He applied to 12, and got in to 9, waitlisted at one, and did not accept the waitlist. Offered a different major at another, but did not accept.
His first two choices, Purdue and Penn State, he surprised us and turned down.
When he attended the accepted student event at Purdue, there was a BSN panel of students and he found out they travel 1.5 hours each direction (into Indianapolis) for their clinicals. That is 3 hours a day of travel icy roads in the winter with 4-5 students squished in the care. That was a complete turn off for him. Was very impressed with the campus, etc. but felt most students were engineering majors and nursing was low on the pole. Which is fine, but other things about Purdue did not jive with him.
Penn State, the year he was accepted, he found out that the BSN students need to relocate to another campus during their 3rd year. So, his second choice was out.
He then looked into his remaining acceptances with open eyes and mind.
He then toured all the other campuses where he was accepted and loved Marquette.
In summary, I think it comes down to what “feels right” for our kids.
We will tour with our dtr this Spring and let her figure out what “feels right” along with having a solid merit aid package.
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For those of you who kids are just starting out HS and are interested in direct entry BSN, I just want to mention that neither of our kids did AP’s, Honor classes, community college classes while in high school, etc. I am a full-time teacher and did not want any of that pressure for our kids. They did lots of school extracurriculars (sports, theater, choir), then outside of school they had part-time jobs, eagle scout, baby sitting, etc. The colleges seemed to like all of this.
The no AP’s and honor classes did not hold them back from many acceptances in direct entry BSN and a healthy amount of merit aid. Some schools do a holistic review of their applicants, consider the whole students, and some look just at numbers (GPA, SAT, ACT).
Apply to the schools that are the best fit for your kids.
Sorry for the typos, I am trying to get this posted quickly.
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I would not consider USF a safety school. Everyone we know who applied to the BSN at USF for Fall 2022 was rejected. And these were kids from high achieving private Jesuit schools, with high GPA’s, and one even had a parent who was an alum.
I had no idea the way D24’s CC was talking about it! Maybe she was referring to it in context of our State schools? I mean 40 seats each at both UCLA & UCI is dismal. And the impacted “pre-nursing” programs at the CSUs numbers are devastating as well… sigh.
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We are ALSO from CA and my D24 refuses to apply to any red states because she’s literally scared for her life… it’s so sad (and also limiting). But so far she’s admitted to 2 safeties and 1 ED deferral… awaiting 5 more before the UC/CSUs. We will tour more in Spring as well!
Thanks for sharing your experience and knowledge!
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My DD20 will graduate from Belmont’s nursing program in May. Her merit was only $9,000/year but we received significant Grant aid. Yes, partly because I’m a single mother with two in college, but I think they use that Grant money to balance their enrollment. They want to encourage the nursing program. They are also opening a full medical school. We never really got the impression the school was ultra conservative. 2 required religion classes. My opinion is that it is pretty open and accepting with alot of diversity, especially given the music/arts side of the school… Nashville is a great city and the clinicals stay in the Nashville area. I’d at least visit it and apply and see if they award money beyond the guaranteed scholarship.
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My daughter was accepted to Case Western Reserve University Nursing for ED in 2024.
The scholarship amount is $34,000 per year.
Mom had a cardiac arrest two years ago and was in the ICU for two weeks, and is still receiving rehabilitation treatment. At that time, my daughter started pursuing nursing.
state of residence: CA
GPA: 3.91 unweighted/4.36 weighted, 7 APs
SAT/ACT: 1470 ( English 670 / Math 800) super score
Activities: 260 Volunteer Hours in Hospitals in from Junior, 2 Summer medical interns
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Congrats…Their new Health Education Campus is the state of the art, beautiful, high tech building that serves medical, nursing, dental and physician assistant students. In addition it is right across the Cleveland Clinic hospital. I love this school.
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Hi all,
Does anyone know info about URI’s direct admit nursing program? In last year’s forum (Direct Admit Class of 2027), someone stated URI nursing as “Not so much weeding, but the program includes an “out” in the fine print to not let even the direct-admit students with high GPA the opportunity to progress through because of a shortage of clinicals and/or space in upper-level classes. There is a secondary, competitive process to progress through the supposedly DA program at URI”.
I have no idea if this is true or false, but my daughter was accepted to their nursing program and wondering if anyone had any info to share about their program. We were planning on visiting.
** Adding link to last years discussion for reference: Nursing Class of 2027 (Direct Admit BSN) - #214 by OceanAir
I appreciate any input. Thanks!
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Best of luck! Yes, my D22 was in the same situation.
URI is lovely and certainly seems like an awesome BSN program-- nice campus and location, etc… and all I can add is that the school says one thing, but the fine print says something else. It’s just a risk you have to be willing to take. My daughter was not willing to, and I was very relieved. I didn’t need her to have to worry about having to compete for a spot in the clinical/coursework after busting her hump for two years, and possibly having to do extra semesters just to finish. 
100% agree!! I think we would be in same boat as your daughter. I am not sure that is a risk my daughter wants to take. She 100% wants a fully direct admit program. Your are right…these kids do so much work to compete to get into a BSN program, that I would hate for her to have to compete for a spot for clinicals. Scary that this info isn’t stated more clearly (another reason I love these forums is this type of info!) Makes me think we should dig into and do more research on some of the ones applied and/or accepted to make sure we aren’t missing any fine print. Thank you so much for answering this! Some of the others off the top of my head she has applied are listed below. I have not heard any concern with these as far as not being 100% true direct admit (except URI), but anyone please feel free to chime in if that is not that the case:
Pitt (Accepted)
Penn State (Denied UP, but given Altoona which she is not going to take)
Fairfield (Accepted)
URI (Accepted)
Binghamton (Deferred to Regular Decision)
Sacred Heart University (TBD)
UDel (TBD)
OSU (Accepted, but this is not a direct admit program. Admitted as Pre-Nursing. A bit nervous about this option since not direct)
Thank you again!!
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No problem! Can’t wait to hear where she ends up!
My daughter is in the same boat, these direct admit nursing programs are so competitive.We also don’t want her to have to worry about competing for a spot sophomore year, and then what if you don’t get in.
URI is now off the list even though she was accepted with generous aid.
Penn State- accepted to UP (very happy) but might not want to do Hershey last year
Also waiting on UDEL, UF, Miami(dream)
Others to look into that she was accepted:
FAU- direct entry start nursing classes freshman year
Nova Southeastern
NY schools (dad’s preference)
Although she wants the sun not the snow
St John Fisher great program and school-
SUNY Buffalo (honors gives you direct admit)
Siena
D’Youville highly ranked nursing program- very small school
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I think OSU (if referring to Ohio State) may offer some direct admit spots. I know they have 3 pathways. The early admissions pathway seems to be like a direct admit path. The website states that a limited number of applicants are notified by the end of February if they are accepted.