As an aside, I think nursing is a competitive major because the schools are limited by faculty:student ratio and the clinicals they can place students in. I think most schools would love to accept more students, but until they hire more faculty and have more clinical opportunities they can only take so many. So it is very geographical, and be sure to check where clinicals generally are. One school my daughter thought about but didn’t apply to made their students go to a children’s hospital two hours away for their peds rotation.