What about Florida Gainsville? Thank u tho
You asked for advice, and you are getting valuable, accurate, and individualized advice from really experienced posters. Different things matter to different people, and we donât necessarily know how you rank your priorities. You are free to take any of the suggestions or not.
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Yeah youâre right. At the end of the day this is all really helpful and the only other college support I have is my guidance counselor who have lets just say given me different recommendations. So i kinda have to be grateful but I think im allowed to have doubts
Very helpful, thank you!
Of course, I hear you. People here will offer you lots of options. Theyâre not always going to be perfect for you. But I promise youâll get excellent and accurate advice here. It will be up to you to ultimately decide on your list, but youâll get great info about different schools to consider.
The most important schools on your list will be your safety and likely schools. Once you get those figured out, the rest arenât nearly as important.
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I donât think anyone was giving you recommendations based on your religion. Iâm not sure, but I suspect that the majority of private colleges in the U.S. are affiliated with a religion. Some of those affiliations are very minimal and at others itâs a big component of life at the university, but it really depends on the school. And there are many universities with religious affiliations that are very strong academically.
Iâm not sure, but frequently when the bracketed info goes in titles, it is to help responders know at a glance the studentâs stats. More often than not, an unweighted GPA is used. If they saw that your UW gpa for freshman and sophomore year was a 93.5% and your junior year one is a 95.5%, that it would be about a 94% GPA with all three years combined.
In the future, you may not want to mention things in your posts that you donât care about and arenât interested in.
Then I suspect there was something particularly extraordinary about those individuals or we are not referring to the same school. Perhaps you may like to look at some of its admissions statistics: College Navigator - University of Rochester
On a general note, you may want to be aware of how your word choices come across. Whether it was your intent or not, your responses have seemed flippant and dismissive. When communicating with others, particularly when youâre asking for assistance, it is not likely to help your cause.
Wishing you well.
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My religion remark was poorly written. I meant it more that people are just handing me schools that are not known for being good. Im not asking for a cornell or ivy. I just dont want to be in the middle of nowhere at a nobody school.
I saw some of your replies as well as the replies of other to other chance mes, and those people always have little things on the side that are like âoh this is a top school in hereâ or âthis is a great research schoolâ. 9 out of 10 schools you recommended to me are ridiculously easy to get into and have zero passion to them.
Its so, so frustrating when im so passionate about bio and when I ask for school recommendations i just get âheres a 95% acceptance rate school most known for its religious scandals and hasnât done anything remotely special in bio take it or leave itâ. And there are NO other chance mes i found that get replies like that. Obviously I do get some extremely helpful people specifically twomad tho
Also on that note, I checked uroch on naviance. There has literally been nobody that got rejected in the last ten or so years except for one kid who had a 70% and 900 sat.
Ps: I think they changed the title back lol
I agree with that. Ive done a lot more ecs in HS then what I listed, but I didnât mention them and I dont plan on mentioning them because they donât contribute to who I am and what I do (plan to do) with my life. I was told by someone else that colleges like kids who can âspeakâ (haha get it) different languages but logically speaking I dont know where id bring up asl so ur right ill drop it.
Im aware I can have a problem with my tone, im working on it. I can and do control my tone very well whenever I need to. Ive had multiple sucessful interviews and conversations with adults-in-power that had a positive outcome for me. But i guess that doesnât justify being a jerk in general
Iâm a biology professor who has taught nursing and medical students. You will be happy to learn that you can receive an excellent education in biology at nearly any college in the country. Prestige doesnât necessarily correlate with teaching quality.
Nursing programs have to be accredited and while there is going to be variation in quality, there are many high-quality nursing programs at schools that you would consider a ânobody schoolâ.
You may certainly restrict your list to schools that you consider worthy, but you may be disappointed with the outcome.
As long as youâre a certain admit for direct-entry nursing at your state schools, youâre all set. Is that the case?
P.S. @AustenNut is a beloved poster here who is one of the nicest and most valued members. People arenât going to take kindly to you pooping on their generous contributions to other chanceme/matchme threads.
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I just donât understand. Please help me understand. Why is everyone blabbing on about âgood schoolsâ and âbad schoolsâ when ultimately it mainly focuses on the student? Why even bother trying for a âbetterâ school if you can get the same outcome somewhere else?
I have a cousin that goes to a state school and does nursing. Ive been sat down multiple times and told it is a waste of skill and talent and if I end up like her ill be a failure in life. I dont wanna be a failure I used to get nightmares every night about making mistakes and what my future would be. Now i know its an exaggeration but the point still stands.
Yeah i cant handle ego blows as well as other people but ultimately it comes from a place of fear and not one of malice or entitlement.
I wish college choice was just picking a campus/region and being sucessful anywhere as long as you work hard and know what youâre doing. But everything I know seems to suggest otherwise
Why are some nursing colleges âbetterâ than others then? I dont wanna doubt the skill of kids that go there and people that teach there, I just donât understand why rankings exist in the first place if, according to you, you could go anywhere and be fine if you know ur stuff. I dont wanna sabotage myself and ruin my life by picking a âbadâ school that people down the line look down upon and reject me for.
Thatâs interesting. We use a feederish HS which places a lot of graduates in highly selective colleges, and then Rochester is a fairly popular likely for some, and target for others. We track prior results in SCOIR, and there are rejections in the 1400s (but with pretty low GPAs), and then more in the 1300s (with higher but not the highest GPAs). With both a pretty good GPA and a 1400+, there are no rejections, but a few waitlistings.
Iâm mentioning this just because what you are reporting may not be typical. Indeed, we know from their latest CDS that Rochesterâs enrolled students had a 25th percentile SAT of 1410, 75th of 1520, and then 62% were in the top 10th of their class, a similar percentage had a 3.75+, and 90% were in the top quarter, and again a similar percentage had a 3.5+. And their overall admissions rate was 39%.
So if your high school places much better than normal in Rochester, I would consider that very good news for you. My understanding is it is generally considered to have a very good BSN program, and it also has a very good medical school, and in fact a very strong Bio department (including being a notable feeder of Bio PhDs).
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Interesting.
My school is good, but its not that good. At least as far as I know. There are a bunch of really successful people that have gone to my school, but itâs average overall
Thereâs a lot to unpack here. For now Iâll address the issue of studying bio (as a premed) or nursing as an undergrad.
For medical school, the prestige of your undergrad institution matters very little. What matters is that you go somewhere where you can shine: the school is the right fit for you, you can get to know professors to do research with them and impress them, you can get a high GPA, you can get your volunteer hours in, and you can do it for cheap. Med school is staggeringly expensive.
There will be good nurses coming out of every nursing program in the country. The accreditation means the programs are standardized. Iâm not saying thereâs no differences, but things arenât as you imagine them to be. There are phenomenal nurses that were educated at community colleges.
I donât know how this toxic elitist attitude has taken such a strong hold in you. You are free to keep holding on to it but it wonât serve you well when youâre working in the clinic alongside brilliant and accomplished coworkers who have attended ânobody schoolsâ.
But applying to schools where you are assured admission and can study for an affordable price is the most important aspect of applications. You donât have to do it, but people here know what theyâre talking about and are just trying to make sure that youâre checking that box.
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About Nut: I guess i shouldnât treat anyone like that, and I owe him more respect than average but I have a right to doubt him and ask questions. I know how it feels to be the âmost respectedâ member of some group (a summer class in my case) and trust me that does not make you 100% right all the time. So I apologize to him but you canât really expect me to just blindly agree and not question his (or anyoneâs advice).
Im not acting out of malice, im acting out of confusing and a little bit of uncertainty and frustration. And yeah, Im sorta in the wrong anyways, but ultimately I am not threatened at all.
I have no intention of arguing. There is no expectation of anyone on this forum to accept any poster as 100% correct and not to be questioned.
If youâd like us to stop suggesting safety and likely schools for you, please just say so.
We can suggest plenty of more selective schools if thatâs the part of your list that youâre looking for advice on.
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~94% is an approximation based on your two years of 93.5% and one year of 95.5%. Unweighted GPA is generally more useful to others, since different schools use different weighting. Colleges mostly use all available high school grades, rather than just a weighted 11th grade GPA.
But according to the forum rules, we do expect you to communicate with others with respect and kindness. Posters are volunteering their time and sharing their experience with you so it will pay off for you if you show some gratitude and consideration in your posts.
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I had a brief delay before a meeting, so I only have a few minutes. Youâve shared a lot in your recent posts that would take more time to address than I have at present.
It is 100% okay to ask people about their methodologies. As @ColdWombat indicated, biology is a bread-and-butter department for many colleges and most colleges in the U.S. would prepare you well for med school. Apart from your preference for a school to have an actual campus and to be about academics and its programs and not primarily about its faith, there wasnât much to go on with respect to what you were looking for. In looking at the schools you mentioned, you seemed to be looking for mid to large schools with a preference for cities, but not exclusively.
When doing a college search, itâs often best to start with the most limiting factors. As you had mentioned ASL (and it would be a good skill to have in healthcare), I knew that would be the most limiting factor. So I used College Navigator to find out which institutions offered a degree in both registered nursing (which is often not offered at many of the âeliteâ schools you might be thinking of) as well as ASL. I then selected ones that I thought best met the criteria I tried to suss out from what you shared in your initial posts.
With respect to my general search techniques, this linked post may provide more information.
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Youâre being helpful and I am very grateful for that. But ultimately im still confused- whats the benefit to higher ranked schools if you could go anywhere and be happy and sucessful? Why the heck would anyone go to harvard, wake etc if you could do the same thing at somewhere much cheaper? Does it really all come down to personal preference? Is it really that simple? If it was, then id rejoice in indescribable happiness. Holy crap id be so happy
I think you calling me toxic and elitist is a huggeeee exaggeration. Okay maybe im a little toxic, that I can get by. Im working on it. But I am NOT elitist. My dad didnât even go to college ffs and youve got people here who have double ivy parents that dont even consider any options I get or people from my neighborhood get. My grandparents were starving under communism and poverty while their grandparents got to go to some fancy ahh uni. Id be the first person on BOTH sides of my family in centuries to go to a âgoodâ college with the exception of a distant cousin at umich.
I have a high, high respect for people who really make it work at small and less known university. But i just dont wanna be a failure. I dont wanna live on the streets. As i said before, I really hope im wrong about colleges and sucess comes from hard work at any school and not just money at some fancy school.