<p>oh no nursing isn’t considered the easiest school once you’re enrolled</p>
<p>curriculum definitely can be tougher than that of the college</p>
<p>^really? what kind of courses do nursing school students usually take?</p>
<p>Nursing students need to take at least five courses per semester plus either a couple semesters with six courses or summer courses. Nursing classes tend to be preposterously hard – Anatomy and Physiology, a sophomore requirement, is a class that nationally something ridiculous like 20% fail, and though Penn’s number is lower than that, it is still quite difficult to get an A in it.</p>
<p>You don’t go to Nursing for a high GPA; you go to Nursing for a degree from Penn, which is known as the top nursing school in the country and, far more so than the other undergraduate schools, will put you in a terrific position for jobs straight out of college.</p>
<p>I’m in the College, but everything I know about Nursing tells me that it is one of the more difficult programs to complete at Penn. And you cannot forget about your twelve hour clinicals which you do once or twice a week sophomore, junior and (i think) senior year. Beyond that, the curriculum is very structured… the vast majority of courses you take are ones that are required… you have a little room for exploring random courses, but not much and definitely not without being serious about scheduling yourself.</p>
<p>So yeah, when it comes to A&P or Orgo, have fun. It ain’t easy at allllll, and it definitely isn’t something you want to go to if you really want to do business. Like… unless you are truly interested in the medical profession, you probably shouldn’t consider it. If, on the other hand, you’re interested in medicine and nursing science, have a desire to do business as well and are willing to either take an extra year, do summers or both in order to complete a Wharton degree or an extra business-related minor, then go for it.</p>
<p>Honestly the “I’ll try for CAS because it is slightly less selective then transfer to Wharton” mindset is quite annoying. If you want to go to Wharton, apply there. Your chances of transferring into Wharton are probably equally as slim as your chances of being admitted straight into Wharton.</p>
<p>I have heard that even an internal transfer into Wharton is harder to do than getting admitted to Wharton as a freshman. And besides, there have been plenty of kids who have tried to apply to another school and transfer into Wharton. I have heard it mentioned in information sessions with admissions representatives. They don’t really seem to be inclined to accept people who do not represent themselves openly on their application.</p>
<p>Think about it this way.
Getting into wharton in the first place is like 8% chance, assuming you are an average qualified applicant.</p>
<p>Internal transfer as I mentioned before has a 3.8 cutoff. That means that in your freshman class courses, you need to be well above an A- average. Most classes you take in the College or Engineering are the intro courses which are usually 30% A and A-. So you need to pull .75standard deviations on all your courses. You take about 10 courses in your freshman year. Essentially you are competing to be in the top 25th percentile in 10 courses. I realize that modeling this mathematically is hard, as there is conditional probability involved and it has many random variables. But long story short, I can say that it is less than an 8% chance of pulling that 3.8gpa</p>
<p>but the problem that confronts me is that cas looks like a great place to be, but attending Wharton would easily be a better experience. however, I dont want to miss out on cas simply because I am rejected for having low stats at wharton, but acceptable stats at cas</p>
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<p>Huh? it’s the same experience. Same dorms, same friends, and half of the time it’s the same classes (since CAS and Wharton students are constantly taking each others’ classes). And when it comes to the experience of college, I’d think one of Walter McDougall’s world history lectures (perhaps better called history ORATIONS when he is giving them) will “easily be a better experience” than a Wharton class on accounting…</p>
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It’s more than stats. I had better stats than just about anyone at Wharton, unless they had a perfect SAT score. It’s about what you want in an undergraduate education. If you want Wharton, go for Wharton. If you want CAS, go for CAS. But it sounds like you need to do more research to figure out why you want Wharton…</p>
<p>BTW ilovebagels is being sarcastic (with a bunch of high school students around I feel like people might miss this)</p>
<p>^ In post #14, of course. In post #28, he’s quite serious–and CORRECT.</p>
<p>smashace: of course it’s possible.</p>
<p>Yeah, to clarify 14 was sarcastic, 28 was correct.</p>