<p>Another thing you might want to consider is that nursing schools tend to give special treatment to nursing school candidates who do their freshman year on the same campus or college as the nursing school they are applying to. In other words, you might get a 3.8 at IU freshman year, which is a great gpa, but if you are not one of the only 60 selected for IU’s program, you could have problems getting in at other nursing schools even with that excellent gpa. IUPUI gives preference this way:</p>
<p>Admission Categories</p>
<p>Applicants are divided into admissions categories A, B, or C. Priority for admission consideration will be given to all qualified applicants in Category A before considering qualified applicants from categories B and C.</p>
<p>Category A
Applicants who have completed more than half of the credit hours required for the campus to which they have applied.</p>
<p>Category B
Applicants who have completed more than half of the credit hours required for an Indiana University campus other than IUPUI, IU Bloomington, or IUPU Columbus.</p>
<p>Category C
Applicants for whom more than half of the credit hours required for application were earned at an institution other than Indiana University. (For example, Purdue University is considered a Category C institution.)
[How</a> to Apply: Bachelor of Science in Nursing: School of Nursing: Indiana University](<a href=“IUPUI: IU School of Nursing: Indiana University”>IUPUI: IU School of Nursing: Indiana University)</p>
<p>Given the special treatment for students who take their undergraduate classes at the same campus, you might want to investigate as many programs as possible and see what their acceptance rates are for the different categories of students. My daughter got in at her college in Indianapolis because of good grades and the fact that she did her freshman year at the college. Her school, like IU, accepts only 60 nursing students a year, and all sixty of the students accepted this year and last year did their freshman year at that school. No applicants from other schools, probably even including applicants that had exceptionally high gpa’s, were even considered for admission.</p>