<p>I'm a junior, and I am looking at the nursing program at Pittsburgh. Im an average student, with just a decent gap nothing special. I have a lot of extra activities such as my girl scout gold award and I volunteer at a local hospital. If I do really well on my sats (only took PSAT, but did really well) is there any chance of me getting in? I know its hard to get in, but I know I can get some nice recommendations and write an essay to the admissions office. Also do they look at weighted or unweighted gpa more? Thank you!</p>
<p>gpa* sorry my phone change it with autocorrect</p>
<p>I also work at a pharmacy if that helps</p>
<p>I’m not sure about your chances for nursing but as far as weighted vs UW GPA, when I was applying I asked the admissions this same question and they told me that they look at whatever GPA my school sends them. So if your school sends the weighted GPA, that’s the one they’ll use in the reviewing process and vice versa. However, you could ask them just to make sure. It was only back in October that they told me that.</p>
<p>I highly recommend trying your best to reach for high scores on your SAT/ACT. This was my main reason for not being accepted into Main. I applied with a 4.2 GPA but my ACT scores were only average.</p>
<p>The nursing school at Pitt is really good and really competitive. You need a combination of a very strong (probably 3.7-3.8+) GPA and very strong (probably about 1400+ CR+M) SAT to get into the program, just because of it’s difficulty. </p>
<p>I would focus on two things for you:</p>
<p>A- Raise your GPA as much as possible. Even though Pitt looks at the weighted GPA, they will also look at the rigor of your courseload. If someone with really hard courses (all APs/Honors, for example) has a 3.7, and someone with an easier courseload (few honors classes) has a 3.8, but they have the same GPA, the person with the harder courseload will probably be picked over the person with the easier one.
B- Make sure you take practice SAT tests (not the PSAT, which really isn’t a good qualifier for how you will do on the SAT) to see how you are actually scoring. Another thing is to sign up to take the SAT early (I’d say winter or spring of your junior year). That gives you a chance to retake it if you don’t like your scores, or take the ACT if the SAT isn’t working for you.</p>
<p>Also check out the Nursing Forum here on CC. Lots of Pitt nursing info from students and their parents.
[Nursing</a> Major - College Confidential](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/nursing-major/]Nursing”>Nursing Major - College Confidential Forums)
Good Luck!</p>
<p>Treat Pitt’s nursing program as a reach, and then apply to many other less competitive nursing programs. </p>
<p>Indiana U. of PA. may be one of many alternates for you, if you want a mid-sized public university in western PA. </p>
<p>Apply early - nursing seats fill up the fastest at many colleges.</p>
<p>Nursing is one of the most competitive schools to gain admission to at the university (29% accept rate or something like that) but don’t know if you need a 1400+ (CR+M). A 1350 is the cutoff (along with other requirements) for the nursing guarantee program for graduate studies.</p>
<p>The nursing school does have a web page describing the internal transfer admission process (I supposed if one wouldn’t start at the school during their freshman year, or wants to come in from a regional campus, etc): [see</a> here](<a href=“http://www.nursing.pitt.edu/students/undergraduate/internal_transfer_info.jsp]see”>http://www.nursing.pitt.edu/students/undergraduate/internal_transfer_info.jsp). Elsewhere on their website they list prerequisite course requirements for sophomore transfers.</p>
<p>The School of Nursing also set up a [nursing</a> program at Pitt-Johnstown](<a href=“http://www.upj.pitt.edu/24806/]nursing”>http://www.upj.pitt.edu/24806/), which offers a BSN identical to the one as Pitt-main as far as I know.</p>