<p>My mom is going crazy because I just told her I am talking a gap year. I dont even want to take one. I was
deferred and then rejected from Penn
rejected Georgetown
rejected Johns Hopkins
My safety’s were Saint Louis university and the University of Tulsa
I got in but the are not working out. I want to double major in nursing and finance and Tulsa would not let me. St. Louis can not provide me with a single room and bathroom for medical problems. I have no where to go i need help.</p>
<p>“St. Louis can not provide me with a single room and bathroom for medical problems.”</p>
<p>Before you applied did you check if the colleges have single rooms with attached bathrooms?</p>
<p>Go to St. Louis and live off campus.</p>
<p>It is a double room and they will not make it a single. before they said i could have it but they decided to increase their enrollment and now i cant. </p>
<p>They said i could live off campus but what friends would i have. That is not ideal for me I wouldn’t be a part of the frosh dorm activities or anything.</p>
<p>You can still have friends while living off campus. In college, one gets friends mainly through the extracurriculars that one does on campus. As long as you join some clubs that interest you, and are active in those clubs, you should be able to get friends.</p>
<p>About this time someone usually comes along and posts the list of colleges still accepting applications. At times, one finds some very good & interesting schools on this list. Keep an eye this forum for it.</p>
<p>Would the other schools have permitted a nursing/finance double major? Nursing is one of those majors where there are a lot of required courses. I don’t know how you’d fit both those majors into a four year program.</p>
<p>yes they all did, thats why i applied to so few schools. I know it was going to take me about 5 years though. I want to do this before o go to law school.</p>
<p>Go to Tulsa and then transfer.</p>
<p>I’d go to Tulsa and do a major/minor instead of a double major. Realize that you may end up changing your mind about what you want to major in once you’re in college - many people do!</p>
<p>The Tulsa and transfer is a good suggestion, but gap years are good too, as long as you do something substantive, like work or volunteer in a hospital (for at least half time) to get exposure to nursing. A lot of folks do very well with a gap year as long as you are not sitting on the couch eating bonbons and playing video games.</p>
<p>Sounds like you really did a good job of researching your options in advance, sorry it’s not working out. Seriously disappointing, I’m sure. </p>
<p>Have you thought about getting your nursing degree undergrad and marrying that with an MPH for grad school, or an MBA? What is your career goal that you want this double major, plus, I see, a law degree?</p>
<p>ArkansasMom is right-- actually I think MOST change majors- many more than once. So, if you really want to go to school in the fall, and really do not want to take a gap year, go to Tulsa, see if it fits, if it doesn’t come up with a new list and try again. Good luck to you!</p>
<p>do you think Tulsa is better than saint Louis university if i want to try and transfer to Penn. If i go to slu i am in their law school as long as i keep a 3.3</p>
<p>I honestly think you should not take a gap year if the only reason is that you’re holding out for that school.</p>
<p>Competition is projected to be fierce in the next few baby boomer years.</p>
<p>So you’ll be competing with the freshmen of next year and all the other gap year takers.</p>
<p>There are still colleges with June 1 deadline, in case you wish to consider it. It is fairly good at nursing and finance and you should be able to get in.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.fau.edu/academic/admissions/freshman.htm[/url]”>http://www.fau.edu/academic/admissions/freshman.htm</a></p>
<p>Okay–I’m probably going to get shot down with this, but I’ll say it anyway. If nursing is not your final goal, please don’t deprive someone else who really wants to be involved in patient care from the program. There is a limit to the number of clinical slots for nursing students, and their clinical instructors are retiring in droves. There are other ways to get into law school if this is your final goal. But lawyers can’t care for ill patients.</p>
<p>rsteinfeld, I think you have a valid point. Well said.</p>
<p>Penn…first of all…the title of this thread is misleading. You did NOT get rejected everywhere. Now you just don’t want to go to the two schools where you did get accepted (not saying the reasons aren’t good but there are ways around them). I agree with the others. You could live off campus…ditch one of the majors (finance…and then that school would work) or you could rethink your major period. I fully agree that nursing schools need students who intend to be NURSES. There is a huge shortage in that profession and a huge glut in lawyers. Just my humble opinion. The other thing you can do is call the disability services or whatever it is called at the school that says you cannot have a single room. At most colleges if you have a medical reason that can be verified by a physician and is ongoing and long term, usually accommodations can be made for a single room…for a fee of course. The other option you have is to live at home, go to a community college, and then transfer somewhere after a year or two. I think you DO have options…my gut is that you just don’t like them.</p>
<p>The people at the disability services department are the ones who are not being accommodating. They said I could not live in the room with bath. My goal in life is to fix the health care system. There are plenty of problems in the nursing field, trust me. I have been in and out of the hospital my whole life. I don’t know I want to be a lawyer I know I just want to go to law school, and having that edge along with a nursing degree may help me become a better hospital administrator or politician.</p>
<p>I don’t get the logic of majoring in nursing and finance as a preparation for law school.</p>