Nursing at osu

There is always a lot of discussion about whether Ohio State nursing is direct admit or not. This is new on the website, and I wonder if anyone has verified it?:

Students Applying Directly from High School:

Senior-level high school students may apply directly to the College of Nursing BSN program for Autumn 2018 admission. The following items must be complete in order to be considered for admission to the BSN program:

Students must apply concurrently to:
The Ohio State University - through the Undergraduate Admissions website (by February 1, 2018)
Applicant must be accepted to The Ohio State University Columbus Campus only.
The College of Nursing BSN program - through the Professional Admissions website (by January 15, 2018)
Completion of all prerequisite courses by the end of the 2018 Spring Semester with a C+ or better.*
Minimum GPA of a 3.2 on a 4.0 scale on overall collegiate academic courses.
Completion of 30 semester credit hours of college coursework (25 of which are prerequisite courses) by the end of the 2018 Spring Semester.
*Students taking prerequisite courses at institutions that do not award grades on a +/- scale must earn a grade of “B” or higher in each of the prerequisite courses in order to be eligible for admission.

I think many would be precluded from “applying directly” due to this requirement:

“Completion of 30 semester credit hours of college coursework (25 of which are prerequisite courses) by the end of the 2018 Spring Semester.”

However, it is possible. This would make them a sophomore and eligible to apply to BSN directly anyway. Otherwise, unless they’re admitted to Honors, I would guess that they would be offered a spot in Pre-N.

@bucks724 and if they are admitted to Honors then what?

Honors students applying for Nursing are granted “direct entry”, as in they don’t have to apply to Nursing after the first semester. Or at least that’s how it was for prior years.

Remember, direct entry means nothing if you don’t complete your prereqs with a high enough GPA. And being in honors makes it that much more difficult to accomplish.

This could have changed, but I haven’t heard anything about that.

Nope. Looks like that changed. What the what?

@bucks724 that’s a good point about Honors sapping resources from an already packed student workload. Yes, understanding the current policy on entry into Nursing program is confusing. where did you see that it changed?

I didn’t see that it changed, per se. I just don’t see mention on the admissions website regarding nursing being direct entry for honors any longer. Looks like they may have revamped the program?

I wanted to quickly update that my D visited campus today. During the nursing portion it was confirmed that the school is no longer direct entry. Instead it is Pre-Nursing (no exceptions such as Honors were listed). Students apply to get into Nursing during freshman year. The numbers:
target freshmen enrollment for pre-nursing: 180
students accepted into Nursing program: 166
number of students applying to Nursing: 400
The 400 is made up of the 180 plus the CC and other college transfers and OSU students switching majors. So acceptance is about 40% to get into the Nursing program. Not nearly as low as other programs. A major factor of the application apart from completion of prerequisites with high GPA is the essay and some students spend weeks to craft theirs. So it’s not just high stats that are needed.

My D has eliminated OSU since it isn’t direct entry but also for her the campus is too large (40 residence halls, 12 libraries, etc.) I thought this might help someone. Good luck to all students!