stats for admittance -- BSN?

mrsref
Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:52:46 +0000

Over the holiday break we are going to start the college search process with D2 (a junior in HS). If nothing else, we want to make a list of schools that we want to visit in the spring.

Does anyone know of a place to get stats (GPA / SAT / ACT) for students admitted into nursing programs for B.S.N.? Or, do you have a sense how the typical BSN admit compares to the general population? Does the comparison depend on the selectivity of the school?

For example, at the University of Pittsburgh the middle 50% numbers are M: 600-700, CR: 580-690, W: 570-670. I could hypothesize the overall numbers are moved a little higher by the engineering types at Pitt, and that the nursing students tend to be at the lower end of the range. (Not that nursing students aren’t bright, but anecdotally most of the “super achievers” I know would not consider nursing as a career.)

On the other hand, Indiana University of Pennsylvania states average SAT (M+CR) of 1000, GPA = 3.0. Would the nursding students tend to be at the high end of this range?

My goal is to get a better feel as to what is a reach / safety for the School of Nursing at the colleges D2 has interest in.