Can I get into Penn State/Villanova nursing program?

Applying to College
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<p>I'm a senior and when I graduate I will have completed 11 Honors/AP courses during my high school career (7 honors classes, 4 AP classes)
-GPA: 3.88/4.0
-ACT: 28 (will take again in october)
-Got a 4/5 on my AP English Exam
-Tons of community service (Youth group, sunday school teacher, arts and crafts at a local library, and English as a Second Language teacher)
-Century Club for 2 years (over 100+ hours of service)
-Key Club one year
-Field Hockey 2 years
-Golf 2 years
-National Honors Society 2 years
-Accepted into a Pre-College Program at Emory University this summer and took a non credit course in Neuroscience
-I've been working at an animal hospital for about a year, so I'm familiar/involved with some aspects of medicine (I can write one of my essays about this)
-I work 16 hours/week during the school year and 25/week over the summer
-Hosted a french exchange student in 10th grade, and will be an exchange student for 2 weeks in France this spring.
-I am also taking an online class this year (Veterinary Assistant) on top of my rigorous course schedule.</p>

<p>Also I'm a legacy at PSU.
Any ideas of other nursing schools I could get into? Thanks</p>

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<p>Oops, sorry. I meant in total 13 honors/AP classes, 9 honors classes and 4 AP.</p>

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<p>Are you instate for Penn State?</p>

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<p>I assume you are from Pennsylvania. My guess is you have a very good chance at both Penn St and Villanova. You could also apply to Pitt and have a very good chance. Though it is a reach with current ACT you might even want to take a chance and apply to UPenn which you can do without SAT subject tests by submitting ACT (One thing about UPenn is that you will at least know your fate in Feb since the nursing school notifies applicants before the rest of the university).</p>

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<p>I’m actually from New Jesery, but thank you for the feedback!</p>

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<p>Since you’re out of state, it’s hard to tell. </p>

<p>If Penn State wants more OOS students who can afford to pay their high OOS rates that might help your chances. Is your family willing to pay the whole cost of PSU for non-residents…about $42k per year?</p>

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<p>Penn State does not consider residency when making admissions decisions.</p>

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<p>My parents told me not to apply for financial aid, because they don’t think we would end up even receiving it.
Does this give me somewhat of a leg up, especially for private schools?</p>

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<p>Not if a school says their admissions are “need blind”. (There are some who would say that no school is truly need blind.) At others it could.</p>