St Anselm, Endicott or Salve Regina?

Deepbreaths
Fri, 03 Jan 2020 19:40:31 +0000

Funny, my daughter applied to Salve and Endicott and is kicking herself for not applying to St. A’s. I think Salve is solid. They have a great track record for nursing, the nursing facilities are really nice (we visited, the nursing stuff is in a modern building with water views out of every window) and they also have good academic support - by that I mean that they have student tutors available in the library pretty much all the time and my understanding is that the nursing majors make good use of that. So I think it’s a place where you’re going to succeed. That said, my daughter didn’t love the campus. She thought it was spread out and seemed kind of dead. She also worried that while Newport is a great place to be in the summer, it might be a ghost town during the school year. It is gorgeous though. She got into Salve with a decent merit scholarship.

We haven’t heard yet from Endicott. I have heard mixed reviews. My understanding is that the campus is beautiful but it’s overpriced and not particularly generous with merit money. Not sure about the reputation of the program but published NCLEX rates look good. So she applied but I’m not holding my breath on that one.

Everyone I know that has gone to St. A’s (and I actually know several people, including a couple of my cousins) has loved it. Their nursing program has a great reputation and they seem to have a lot of school spirit for a small school in NH. My daughter held back on applying because we do have cousins that were at St. A’s and I think she had this idea that she wanted to blaze her own trail and not go somewhere that felt like it “belonged” to other family members. But now she’s bummed that she didn’t apply.

My daughter applied to Emmanuel in Boston and we’re waiting to hear from them. It’s a small school but located right in the Longwood Medical area. Beth Israel, Brigham & Women’s and Boston Children’s Hospital are right around the corner. It’s a bit of a risk in that their 4 year nursing program is brand new, the first class started this year. Previously, they just had RN to BSN and master’s programs. But that meant that they had established clinical relationships. The opportunities in the area alone might be worth the risk.