Our flagship is direct admit and gets thousands of applications every year. They only accept about 100 students (limited by clinical capacity). As a matter of fact all big state schools have thousands and thousands of applications for nursing (look at cal) so the number of freshmen that want to major in nursing has nothing to do with being direct admit or not. Our flagship has an acceptance rate of about 55% but the nursing program has a rate of 15%. We did the info session and they told us that the direct admit model works well for them which assume means they are happy how they select the students and they have high success rate. We were also told that right now if a student applies for nursing and does not get in the direct admit program that student will automatic get rejected (in the old days they would offer a chance at another major). They do that because they is so little chance for that student transferring to the nursing major that it is not fair. Since there are so many ways for a student to become a nurse they want the students from the beginning to be in a place most appropriate for that goal. That’s what we were told not my own opinion.