Nursing schools everywhere are highly selective these days.
Yes I agree and thatâs why I mentioned SLU. Last semester my daughterâs friend, a current freshman at SLU who did not apply to nursing school at SLU, was able to switch to nursing without any difficulty or hassle. I donât know the specifics of the process. But SLU (non-nursing) has a high acceptance rate - I believe close to 80%. And the ability to switch into nursing without difficulty seems to make it a relatively easy nursing admit. OP doesnât seem sure what they want to major in though. And I am under the impression that at most schools you canât just switch into nursingâŠso this may be a good one to keep in mind.
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Iâm so glad to hear about your daughterâs friends experience. At so many colleges itâs next to impossible even to transfer in to nursing. Not completely impossible but very, very hard. This is so crazy. What teenager is supposed to know what s/he wants to do with their life already by the time theyâre 16/17. I always thought that college was the place where you went to figure this stuff out. So, yes, St. Louis does seem to be a good one to keep in mind.
If someone has choices among nursing schools, I think the most important factor to consider is where they can get the best clinical experiences. A plus for St. Louis is that it has its own hospital and that itâs a teaching hospital (med school). Also a plus is that itâs in a big city, which is where a student can get the widest exposure to a variety of situations and best practices.
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