<p>D applied in July and her status online indicates she has been admitted into CLA (December 26). No packet in the snail mail yet, and no word on Nursing Guarantee. We did a visit to campus on December 29 and stopped by the Freshman Admissions Office and spoke personal to a rep. </p>
<p>The rep could not tell us whether the Nursing Guarantee decision had been made yet - nothing appeared in the computer. She believed that the letter in the admissions packet would tell us. We explained that people on this forum say the Nursing letter has come about one week later. She agreed that could be the case.</p>
<p>She said that she didn't know if the status on the Tracker would ever change to Nursing Guarantee or if it would always stay as CLA.</p>
<p>She said approximately 100 will be admitted as Nursing Guarantee for Fall 2015. Next fall Nursing will only accept approximately 30 sophomores from CLA, so it will be highly, highly competitive.</p>
<p>If anyone knows if the Tracker ever changes to Nursing Guarantee, we would be interested to know that.</p>
<p>Hope this information is helpful!</p>
Our daughter’s online status change (after some calls) to say that she’d been admitted Dec 24th. On the application tracker - her status changed to admitted and that she’d been admitted into the Fresh Nurse Program. So you can be notified online - I supposed it could also be later in the mail - but her notification was online first.
Also posted in the “Expected Decision Time” strain:
The Admissions Counselor told us by phone and later by email that D was not accepted into Freshman Nursing Guarantee. For reference, 27 ACT, 3.3 UW GPA, all honors and AP classes, plus 15 dual credits through our local community college (3.6 community college GPA). She struggled academically during her freshman year and we identified a minor reading deficiency. Once corrected, her grades improved significantly, including 4.0+ on 4.0 scale. Her grade trend was very good, and we explained all this, but apparently it wasn’t enough. We are OOS (Illinois) and she has been accepted into direct admit elsewhere, as well as another top-ranked national program. This whole process has been very frustrating and their inconsistencies in messages and apparently decisions and notification are very disappointing.
Like you had told me - I called the office of admissions and they put me on the phone with a senior rep from the school of nursings admission. They told me that my application was still in review and if accepted it should change on the tracker along with receiving a letter.
Frustrating how inconsistent they’ve been and how long I had to wait (5 months) just to hear if I was even in CLA…
@heyoimsam, I’m glad to hear you’re still being considered!!! When we called Nursing, they said all decisions were made in the Office of Admissions and directed us there. It really has seemed sometimes that the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing. Please update us as soon as you hear. Hoping for great news for you!
For anyone who may still be waiting for word about Freshman Nursing Guarantee . . . D’s status changed to indicate admitted to CLA on December 26. She received the paper packet in the mail on January 10, which indicated the same thing. On January 16 she received a letter from the Office of Admissions (not Nursing) congratulating her again on her admission, and then explaining that she was not offered the FNG. It went on to explain the competitiveness of the pool and that it would be very difficulty/unlikely to be a nursing major coming from CLA. Enclosed were two pages of FAQs about Nursing at U of M, siting statistics about those who were admitted and the number of applicants vs. seats. We’re grateful to have the complete information once and for all, but it’s rather disappointing that it took this long in between messages. Fortunately, we had visited/called Admissions ourselves two weeks ago and knew this was the decision. The information they sent indicated that they had 1,992 applicants and admitted 229 for 75 seats. Hopefully there are some on this board who got good news. Our daughter has now decided on another top program where we know she’ll do extremely well and be very happy.