<p>My daughter really loved Mizzou. It's small beautiful and active campus really won her heart. And we were impressed with the nursing program. But she has already been accepted to a higher rated program. Now she would still choose mizzou over that program if it were direct admit. She has a high ACT ( 31) and excellent grades in high school (3.9) and doesn't want to risk not getting in to a nursing program. Yes she's aware of the nursing scholar program but you still have to apply and enroll in honors classes. That's not something she wants to commit to when schools like Michigan Minnesota Pitt and Emory/oxford allow direct admit without such requirements. </p>
This is why I’m not 100% sure if I’ll be attending Mizzou. I love their Journalism program but unfortunately my act score is one point below the score they require to be directly admitted to the school of journalism. I’d like to attend and do pre-journalism & apply for the school of journalism again but I don’t want to risk not ever getting into it. I still have a lot of schools to hear decisions from in April so I’m not really sure what I will do yet.
Just for the record, @ksum2897, from reading their website, it seems like most pre-j students usually end up getting admitted to the school as long as they meet the requirements. If Mizzou ends up being your top choice, if that’s the only thing keeping you from going, I would go for it. Good luck! 
@CE527M Thank you so much! That sounds much more promising. & yes mizzou is one of my top choices for their journalism program and the scholarships they’re offering.
@Jara123 The nursing program is very competitive at Mizzou. They typically have 2-3 times as many applicants as they have slots for the clinical major. Unfortunately they can’t admit more students due to the size of the building and the number of hospital beds in Columbia (and having to share them with other schools of nursing in mid-Missouri). If your D really loves Mizzou, I would strongly encourage her to pursue the Nursing Scholars and Honors programs. As a graduate of the Sinclair School of Nursing, I can tell you some of the most life changing courses that I took as an undergraduate at Mizzou were honors courses. I don’t mean to imply that I didn’t enjoy the nursing courses, but I had a strong background in science and math and the nursing courses just built on that. The honors courses that I took were not science courses, they were social science, humanities, and fine arts courses that rocked my world and changed the way that I looked at the world. 30 years later I still refer people to a book that I read in Honors Sociology. Furthermore, Mizzou is so much larger than it was “back in the day” when I was an undergraduate. The advantage of honors courses is that students can be in much smaller, more intimate courses with professors rather than large lecture hall classes. Just some thoughts from a die hard Tiger–M - I - Z- Z- O - U!!! BTW, Mizzou also has a pretty awesome football team too!