<p>Folks-
My son's a HS Junior and is interested in Nursing. Based on posted data, his GPA and SAT scores position him as a pretty strong candidate for admission at Duquesne; he was
favorably impressed during a visit & tour of the Nursing facility we took during a vist to the campus earlier this year (we're from CT).
Can anyone offer insight into how many many males are actually in Duquesne's Nursing program, and how they fare in the program? Occasionally schools require their Nursing students to live in specific dorms, which given the rather small number of males in the program would tend to really limit the number of roomate-options the males have- does DU impose such residency-requirements on its Nursing students?
Also, I've heard (via anecdotal information, I admit) that some schools' Nursing programs/faculty show a bit of female-bias toward their students.. any indication of that at Duquesne?</p>
<p>Just a quick note to say that D says there are quite a few guys in her class, and that she doesn’t see any female-male bias (she’s a senior in nursing). If I remember right from a session when D was admitted, Duq claimed to have 15-18% guys and told us that it was one of the higher percentages at the time. I have no info about current class composition, but D usually has a guy or two in her clinical groups. It doesn’t seem to be a big deal. There was no requirement to room with another nursing student, although D was able to check off on her housing preferences whether she wanted to room with someone in nursing or not. Her first roommate wasn’t in nursing, but eventually she decided to room with a friend in nursing because it was convenient for studying and clinicals. Feel free to PM me, and I’ll pass questions to D.</p>
<p>Thanks Neonzeus. Appreciate your response & information. Best of luck to your daughter.</p>