Nursing (BSN) Admits Fall 2026 - Class of 2030

Just checking in with this group. Hopefully, everyone survived November 1st!

We traveled back-to-back weekends to look at nursing programs. First was Case Western. We got a private tour of nursing, which is in the relatively new Health Education Campus building. It’s about 0.60 miles from campus, right across the street from the Cleveland Clinic. We walked it (nice day), but there are frequent shuttles. The facility is pretty amazing. It houses the CWRU med school and dental school too, and there are some unique interdisciplinary labs/simulations (nursing and med students together). Clinical time starts freshman year. My D liked everything about the nursing program there.

Next was an admitted student day at Pitt. This was also a good visit (and D’s second time there). They ran a very well-organized and fun program – with lots of swag, energy, and school spirit. We got our nursing questions answered and really liked the overall campus/student vibe a lot. [My D didn’t say this explicitly, but I think she would love to be able to combine the facilities at CWRU with the school spirit and overall vibe at Pitt…]

At this point, D is ready for a mental health break from college applications! No more college visits until the spring, and very little left to do on the application side of things. She ended up applying EA to the following nursing programs: Pitt (admitted with GAP and Honors), Iowa (admitted with nursing supplement still to do), Marquette, Creighton, TCU, Miami, Tennessee, Michigan, Villanova, Case Western, and USF-CA. She also threw an application at our state flagship (non-nursing), and might do one or two RD applications TBD.

How is everyone else doing? Please post your updates and results here. I have heard that Creighton’s decisions started rolling out last Friday (we have not heard personally yet).

Good luck!

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Hi all! I’ve followed the nursing threads in past years and they were very helpful in building a list for my Class of 2030 daughter. She just finished submitting all her applications for the Nov. 1 deadline, so I thought I would contribute her list.

Boston College (reach and we probably can’t afford it, but she wanted one dream school on her list!)
Catholic Univ of America
Creighton Univ
Gonzaga Univ
Hope College
Loyola Univ Chicago
Marquette Univ
Mount Saint Mary’s Univ
Point Loma Nazarene Univ
Sacred Heart Univ
Salve Regina Univ
St. Olaf College
Univ of Portland
Univ of San Francisco
Villanova Univ

She’s looking for a smaller, friendly campus that feels like a community, with genuinely kind students. She’d like an established BSN program at a school with solid academics. Religious schools are fine, as you can probably tell by her list, as long as that doesn’t mean strongly politically conservative. We’re looking at direct-admit almost exclusively. (Hope College is not, but it seems like a pretty straightforward entry process sophomore year). As we visit or hear from schools, I’ll be sure to update!

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Great list. Salve is gorgeous!! And BC is my alma mater and I loved my time there. Such an exciting time for our kids!

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This is a great list. We have a lot of overlapping schools, so I am excited to see how this plays out for our kids. Keep us posted. (Also, once acceptances start rolling in, would you be willing to post stats? Thanks!)

Our good news is a little merit from Pitt this week!

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