Now that final decisions have been made I will post some stats and info about my daughter. Hopefully this will help future nursing students as they begin the college selection process.
Applied/Result - All Direct Entry Nursing Programs
UMass Amherst - EA Accepted Commonwealth Honors College - Attending, $2,000 In State scholarship
Boston College - EA deferred, RD accepted, no financial aid
Fairfield University - EA Accepted $25,000 Magis, declined before Honors review
Quinnipiac University - EA Accepted $24,000 merit award, honors invitation
Northeastern Univeraity - EA deferred, RD accepted NUin, no financial aid
University of New Hampshire - EA accepted, Honors Program, OOS $14,000 merit award
UMass Lowell - EA accepted, Honors Program, half tuition and fees merit scholarship
Visited, but did not apply-
UVM, very nice school just not a good fit for her
Endicott, very nice school, too small for her
GPA is around 97, all honors and AP classes, highest curriculum each year
4.0 unweighted, 4.1 or so weighted
SATs were 1930 - math 680, verbal 630 and writing 620
A number of leadership positions in school government and sports.
Soccer and softball player.
Member of the National Honor Society and President of the student council.
Works during non sport seasons.
Many volunteer programs.
Congrats to your daughter @kkmom1998! Sounds like she had amazing, well-deserved options. I really appreciate your posting the stats and information - that is often hard to come by. Can you share what things weighed in on her decision to pick UMass?
Thank you @kchamp. She has worked very hard. She liked different things about each school, but leaned towards UMass Amherst early on for a number of reasons. The Honors College invite sealed the deal. It was an opportunity she couldn’t say no to. She would have the small school feel within the big school environment. She liked all of the extracurricular and sport activities that are available- and the award winning dining halls were also appealing. The nursing school has a great reputation and only selects 80 students. They had an 11% acceptance rate this year. There are good clinical partners. There is a lot of direct interaction with professors early on because of the small program size. She spoke with a few professors/administrators during accepted students day and she connected well with them. She felt comfortable. The nursing program also has an internship program senior year that not many of the other schools had. And finally, it made the most financial sense.
Best of luck to her @kkmom1998! Sounds like a great fit! An 11% acceptance rate - wow! No wonder they talked about how tough it was at the Information Session. We have only looked a UMass Amherst so far but all the other schools you mentioned are on the list to look at - going to Fairfield and Lowell over April break. Well maybe not BC and NU - they definitely seem least likely to give merit $ and that will have a rather large impact on the decision! Is she planning on doing the honors nursing RAP?