<p>"If they accept 8 A’s and an A- from any Mickey Mouse school in the country, and reject the 7 A’s and 2 A-'s from Yale, they are crazy.</p>
<p>There is no nursing school in the world that is as academically competitive for admission as a top university."</p>
<p>Who said anything about “academically competitive”? The issue was getting into the nursing school (and what you can do AFTER you get your B.A. at that “academically competitive” institution.) Maybe they are crazy, but to them, Yale is Mickey Mouse - after all, what’s the median graduating GPA, 3.4?</p>
<p>The majority of Yalies couldn’t get in, not without repeating courses, or “remedial work”. Many of the Yalies who got into medical school, even Harvard Medical School, couldn’t get in (without same). </p>
<p>(And yes, the dropout rate was about one third, or was several years ago, and maybe another quarter only made it to LPN. I have the impression that most of those left for monetary reasons - they needed money immediately to feed their families.)</p>
<p>Academically competitive? Call it what you like.</p>