UDel honors nursing vs. TCNJ honors nursing

vamom4
Fri, 29 Mar 2019 09:33:28 +0000

My daughter committed to Delaware nursing (I talk about the program on another post), but is waitlisted at UVA nursing and will go if eventually accepted. (We are in-state Virginia, but that doesn’t help much with UVA nursing admissions.)

That said, the advice you are being given here is accurate as far as the starting salaries being similar for anyone with a BSN regardless of where they are getting it. My daughter gave up admission to Case Western Reserve due to the price, even though it’s a more prestigious school. She would rather save the money for grad school.

I would suggest going in-state IF you feel you will have similar experiences at both schools.

In this case, Delaware and TCNJ seems to be roughly the same caliber. Delaware is bigger, but TCNJ is plenty big. Unless you really don’t like the campus vibe there, and unless money is not an issue, I would also recommend staying in-state. Plus, you are more likely to do your clinicals close to home, and that will make it easier to get a job at one of those places in the future.

My daughter is only going out of state because among our state schools for direct-admit it’s either UVA (with 14% in-state admissions rate to nursing) or another much lower caliber school, known for accepting students who didn’t work very hard in high school. (average SAT around 1000, 92% admit rate) While she might get the same nursing education there, she wanted to be among more academic-focused students and didn’t apply there.

You are lucky to have a good in-state option! Save the $44,000 difference between the two schools for something else!