Could I suggest Marshall University in West Virginia?
D1 sports
about 8000+ students
Direct admit to BSN program with above a 2.5!
Have their own health network —maybe that matters or not-i don’t know how nursing programs work but seems like there’d be opportunities?
Might be too far?
City isn’t the nicest but campus is cute
Lacking prestige? Very affordable even compared to SUNYs
No college confidential page
Excellent community spirit
I completely understand-- and the reason for my reply is to share the info that SUNY Plattsburgh DE Nursing is just as competitive as most DE Nursing programs on OP’s list. It has a 4% admission rate. Other than Nursing, SUNY Plattsburgh is not an overly competitive campus.
I think we all know that DE Nursing coupled with all the feels of a large D1 Sports school etc. is going to be a reach for any applicant without a 3.9-4.0, all the right classes in HS, and a competitive SAT score. That is just reality and what we learned as we we went through this is 2022.
I agree that SUNY Plattsburgh DE nursing is competitive with a single digit acceptance rate. I am not disputing that statistic. I know that it is real.
I am stating that I have seen students get rejected from D1 football DE nursing programs, yet gain DE nursing acceptance to their safety school, with honors and merit money. If you want nursing it is important to compromise. Of course nursing is still a reach, but if you apply wisely it may be less so (but still a very competitive major).
I am not saying that Plattsburgh is a safety, that she will get in, etc. That was never my intention. The 4% acceptance is real.
As others have mentioned the RN → BSN pathway is usually easier than direct entry. For example Fullerton out in CA says “Currently, the RN-BSN pathway is not impacted. This means that the School of Nursing has been able to admit all applicants who meet the admission requirements.”
So as a fallback plan why not look into the RN first and then completing the BSN at a 4-year college with the beautiful campus, student life, sports type of deal? It’s not the same as spending your entire college time at the 4-year but it would give some of the experience.
The only problem with this scenario is that most RN to BSN programs these days are online programs.
University of Scranton has a direct admit nursing program that may be a match for your daughter
Weed-out college GPA is 2.3, according to page 13 of https://www.marshall.edu/nursing/files/BSN-handbook-Revised-July-2022-.pdf . Probably much less stressful than those programs with weed-out GPA of 3.5 or so.
Depending on where they need to go to get their RN education first it still could be very difficult to get in. The county colleges around here that offer an ADN are extremely competitive to get into. The “old school”hospital-based diploma RN programs have been eliminated in several areas because a lot of hospitals moved to having a BSN as being required to work in the hospital. Some of that has changed due to Covid and staffing issues, but those schools are not very popular like they once were.
whats the schooling to get the RN first
It’s usually an associate’s degree at a community or junior college. There’s also still some diploma programs sponsored by hospitals that offer an RN, though they are becoming rarer.
Some/many of the nursing programs at CCs are very competitive.
Another school that just popped into my head if she’s open to anything is Gwynedd Mercy University in PA. It is definitely small so if she wants that bigger college feel it won’t be a good choice, but it has a good nursing program that is well-known in the SEPA area. Nice Philly suburb area and safe campus. They also allow study abroad which is not typical of nursing programs. Also, great clinical facilities that range from larger city and trauma hospitals to smaller suburban hospitals.
typically someone would earn an Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) at a CC, a program usually set up to qualify someone to take the RN exam.
What I’ve mentioned in an avenue that would need further exploration although I do know someone who earned her BSN this way and was happy with how it worked out. As has been pointed out these RN programs at a CC can be competitive to get into, so you’d want to look at how ones of interest to you select. They can be very point-driven (for example see “criteria for enrollment” https://www.saddleback.edu/programs-degrees/all-programs/nursing And as also pointed out you’d want to identify 4-year colleges she’d want to attend that offer in-person attendance for the RN-BSN path.
Have you looked into Iona University in New Rochelle, NY? They have a new nursing program and have an affiliation with Columbia Pres in NYC. I’ve also heard great things about Alvernia in PA. Best of luck to your daughter!
Gannon and PSU Behrend in Erie. Cincinnati and Xavier in Cincinnati.
WVU has a teaching hospital on campus. I’m not sure it’s direct admit or at least for all students. I don’t think it used to be direct admit but I think it’s changed. Might be in-state and/or high stat students though.
WVU has both direct admission and pre-nursing with secondary admission, according to Nursing BSN Major - West Virginia University . Note that direct admission is test-required.
https://nursing.wvu.edu/media/74985/son-ug-handbook_ay-2324.pdf (page 19) shows that the weed-out college GPA is 3.0, and a C- is the minimum grade for any nursing course.
My daughter applied to many places for direct admit nursing last year (starting Fall 2023). She had 1180 SAT, 3.95 weighted/3.6 unweighted. She went test optional for a few schools and submitted for others.
Admitted direct entry to:
Bloomsburg
Duquesne
Immaculata
IUP
Moravian
Penn State University - Altoona (test optional- first choice was University Park)
Rutgers New Brunswick (test optional)
Scranton
Seton Hall
Stevenson
TCNJ
University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg campus (test optional - applied to main campus)
York College of PA
URI
Jacksonville University
University of Hartord
University of Akron (very affordable and liked it a lot, but she decided it was too far from home)
Holy Family University
Kent State (thought it was direct entry originally, but foudn out it is not and Hunger Games)
Admitted to second choice major (health sciences): University of Delaware (test optional)
** Admitted to pre-nursing: West Virginia Univ. (and heard it was pretty impossible to get into nursing from pre-nursing there)
Pushed from EA to RD and then not admitted: SUNY Binghamton
Waitlisted/not admitted: West Chester (applied in September and did not hear until March that waitlisted. Seemed like she was in the bottom of a pile and forgotten about because heard of others who were accepted into second choice major instead of nursing months before - she was not offered second choice even though that choice should have been a safety for her.) They never sent any updates or marketing… when she called to check since it was taking so long, they just said they had her application and even though it’s rolling there was no date that she’d hear by. Was not a fan of West Chester’s communication…
Just curious- where did she end up attending?
omg you just gave me hope! Did she have a lot of APs? Where did she decide to go? hows she doing??
ok i looked into the school. looks pretty good. Grad rate is 52% should that deter us?