No, sorry I do not know if those are direct entry.
Depending on stats, Duquesne used to give merit of $10-20K.
How much is Rutgers OOS?
@bearcatfan might be able to tell you which Ohio schools are direct entry nursing.
^link to another post about new direct entry bsn programs in PA, please verify the information.
Yes it seems to be a conflict that is not necessary. She seems to have a great chance at admission to a good school with her experiences. She could go anywhere, and work anywhere.
Does she prefer city? One school in a nice setting is Endicott in Beverly MA, right on the ocean, with Beverly and Salem hospitals nearby and a short train ride to Boston. Not sure how costly it is though.
@compmom cost is definitely a factor – she and I have been scouring the lists of direct entry schools and their scholarship opportunities. She is the 5th kid to college so we are becoming cash weary lol
I can only imagine paying for a fifth!
@mommdc We are in-state for Rutgers – my daughters stats are not up to a decent award at Duquesne – maybe she will surprise me with her ACT
If you are considering Ohio, a friends D looked at Kent State for nursing. I believe it’s direct entry. Don’t know what oos tuition would be.
Gotta tell you that just last week when my daughter got a severe kidney infection out of the blue, I was able to drive the 1 hour to her school and take care of her while she was in the hospital.
@momofzag Big sis is in Ohio!
I have a relative that graduated nursing from Hiram recently, it has direct entry and is private, but offers really generous merit aid.
http://www.hiram.edu/academics/majors-minors/nursing/
http://www.hiram.edu/academics/undergraduate/scholarship-grants/
If you are willing to send her to SUNY Buffalo, why don’t you consider SUNY Plattsburgh? It has a direct entry nursing program that is well regarded. my D’s best friend came to it as an OOS student and received scholarship money. She graduated in 2014 and immediately got work as a travel nurse. She worked in several different states but has now settled down in the last place she went to because she met a man there and is probably going to marry him.
Plattsburgh itself is a very nice school - 2 of my 5 kids went there.
The main difference between Buffalo and Plattsburgh (other than size) is that Buffalo is not a direct entry program. Students have to compete with students from other schools and programs at the end of sophomore year to get in and many don’t. I have 2 friends whose D’s had to give up their dreams of becoming nurses because they didn’t make it into the program at Buffalo and weren’t accepted anywhere else.
Former nurse here, who worked in various places in the country. It absolutely won’t matter where she got her degree, and no one’s going to ask her about where her clinicals took place. They will want to know that she has the degree and passed her NCLEX. She will be fine wherever she goes to school 
@techmom99 Honestly she hasn’t looked at the SUNY schools - the Buffalo school is D"youville College-- and what you just said is why she wants to go direct entry
@BuckeyeMWDSG thank you we will check that out!
Is it possible that her “want to get away” is wanting to get somewhere that nobody knows her so she can create a new persona? That was what pushed me to go to college out of state. It’s not always about getting away from the parents, sometimes it can be about getting away from high school classmates.
It definitely helped me feel more adult.
@ninakatarina I imagine it is a combination of things including that… but also all her siblings are enjoying themselves and their new friends and new found independence and she wants to do it too!
You said for her to go to Rutgers Camden " it will cost ME a bit more than the other programs." She wants to go somewhere else, and it is cheaper to go somewhere else – my vote is let her go. My daughter got into a top program in her home state, just a few miles from home. She could have lived on campus and had a full tuition scholarship. However, she had always dreamed of going away to college and experiencing life in a different part of the country. Since she got even bigger scholarships that made going out of state cheaper than staying in-state, that was fine. The university she chose is ranked lower than the university in her home state, but she is glad she chose it. She got to establish her independence and identity as a college student in a place where she would never be running into high school classmates, going out to places she had already been to many times growing up, invited to see parents way too often on weekends, etc. Instead, everything and everyone was new. This is what she wanted to experience – not just the education, but exploring an entirely new place far from home. It takes courage to do that, so it can be admired rather than opposed.
@mommyrocks I am not particularly ‘opposed’ - I just want to help her think through all the possibilities and consider why to choose different paths - I am all about informed decisions is all
Cleveland State is offering out of state nursing students a rate that is three dollars (300 pennies) more than in state. It’s only $218 per credit hour; in state students rate is $215/credit hour (non-nursing majors in state pay $401/cr). It’s an RN to BSN program but it looks like this is some sort of tuition incentive the state is offering to bring nurses to Ohio. I wonder if other state schools will be offering similar discounts soon.
http://www.csuohio.edu/sites/default/files/Fiscal%202018%20UNDERGRADUATE.pdf