<p>Chances of getting into the fsu nursing program. Also, does anyone know how good of a program it is. Would like some help sorting this out. I am/have applied to 15 colleges that have bsn programs. Some are 2+2, and some are direct entry. Here are my stats.</p>
<p>weighted gpa 3.92/top 19% in a highly competitive high school
21 of my courses are honors, ap or aice (cambridge ap)
sat 1810
act 28 (taking again in october, hoping for 30)
I am in the stem program at my high school</p>
<p>I have worked as an intern over the past 3 summers in our local hospitals.</p>
<p>Any help you could give me or tell me how the program is if you happen to be in it would be helpful.</p>
<p>I’m not sure how it all works, now that they have the “freshman” admission thingy…which is kind of silly, in a sense, since people tend to change their majors in that first year after going through some basic courses and realizing they don’t really like/can’t handle the material. Anyway, I know it’s really competitive…I’m a sophomore applying to the nursing school this fall. Last year they had about 106 (I believe) accepted into the program. This year, it is less than 100…and all of the people in my anatomy class are applying, and there are 300 of them. Less than a third will get in, plus there’s got to be room for people applying from other schools, too…so it’s very competitive! According to the nursing admissions people I have talked to, admission is based SOLELY on GPA, which is kind of sad, considering a lot of people have volunteer hours. Maybe they do look at that, but they told me it’s only based on your GPA. There’s 115 “points” on an application. 50 are your science GPA (chemistry, nutrition, etc…but NOT biology), 50 are your overall GPA, 10 are for getting an “A” in algebra, and 5 extra points for higher level/honors courses. I’m not completely sure if you get, or how many points you get, for having a B or C in algebra…I took Calc 2 my freshman year so I get the full 10 points, and a bonus point since it was a higher level course. I hope this is making some sense! I’ll give an example. </p>
<p>Say your science GPA is a 3.6 and your overall GPA is a 3.5. You’d have to get the percent of your GPA’s divided by an A (4.0) and multiply each one by the 50 points each, so (3.6/4.0)*50 = 45 points, (3.5/4.0) = 43.75 points. This gives you your GPA points. 45+43.75 = 88.75 points so far. If you got an A in algebra, or took a higher level math, you get the full 10 points. Say that you got the A, you would now have 98.75 points. Any honors/higher level courses add a point, but can only go up to 5 extra. So, say you took 2 honors classes…that’s 2 more points, giving you a total of 100.75 points!</p>
<p>That is weird, I wont even try to figure that out. On the website, it says that they look at scores first then gpa. But on the app they ask about how many honors, ap or aice courses you have had. I didnt even have enough room as I’ve had 21. Last year it was 4.0, 1700 sat and a 27 act. Im over on all of those, so I have my fingers crossed. I didnt take anatomy but have bio honors, ap bio, ap environmental, chem honors, aice marine , algebra 2 honors, geometry honors, aice math (pre calc/calc,trig), ap stats, ap psychology, ap english comp, ap english lit,aice general paper,english honors, honors research2…
They asked for all these classes on the nursing app, so hopefully it will put me in a good place.</p>
<p>This is from decades ago but Mrs P2N is an FSU BSN graduate. The college was very difficult to gain admission to then as well. The workload was tough. She had no difficulty gaining employment as a new BSN and passed RN state licensing boards easily. She recalls the school, then, was more geared to producing researchers than line nurses. This was her personal perspective as she worked with RNs from small colleges who were trained in more practical aspects of nursing and wrote far fewer research papers.</p>
<p>I have heard some talk it may soon be combined with the College of Medicine. No idea if this is true or just speculation.</p>