<p>UCLA Nursing School is my dream program. I am planning to apply this coming year. I would like to know if anyone here has any advice for me to increase my chances of getting in? I have a 3.79 GPA now. By the time I am ready to transfer, I hope to raise it to a 3.9. I spoke to an admissions counselor and she said start volunteering at a hospital, which I am going to do.
Has anyone been accepted as a transfer? I attend Los Angeles City College, and would appreciate and be grateful to any and all help.</p>
<p>Go to the UCLA nursing website and download the supplemental recommendation form. This will let you see the questions your recomenders will be answering. Be sure you are doing things now so they can give strong positive answers. Since you live in the LA area you can attend one of the information sessions. They have a link on their website for this, the next ones look like they will be starting next summer but it doesn’t hurt to email them and ask if their are any other sessions earlier than that. </p>
<p>Admission to nursing programs at UCLA or elsewhere is very competitive so you need to take steps to be the best applicant you can be at a bunch of schools since you ought to apply to as many as you can afford if nursing is really your dream. So go to their websites (CSU, other UCs, etc) and look at the application procedures. Many give extra points for work experience or volunteer work, sometimes other things. Look for bonus points you can pick up. And it wouldn’t be a bad idea, BTW, to contact UCLA and other schools and ask if there is a hour committment they look for in volunteer work. Sac State, for example, publishes an actual schedule of points on their nursing website. </p>
<p>Thank you so much. I really appreciate your advice.
UCLA is far different from other programs, because it requires a minimum of calculus and organic chemistry. They only accept 10 transfer applicants annually. It is really my dream to go there for nursing, and I am ruling out all other nursing schools, because UCLA’s pre-requisite requirements are unique, and so no other school has the same ones. The good thing is, I have the opportunity to apply for a back up major if it does not work out, but regardless, I am going to try my best to get in.
I am honestly not worried about my grades. I am worried about writing a killer statement of purpose and personal statement. I also have very good references (with PhD’s, and even UCLA graduates who have been my mentors.)</p>
<p>If any transfers have gotten in, would you mind posting stats?
All other advice would also be very much appreciated. Thank you! :x </p>
According to Mssun, who is a college counselor with close ties to UC
We aren’t allowed to give links to blogs, but I think you can find this with a search engine.</p>
<p>I’m sure you thought this thru, but I wonder why you are so committed to attending UCLA and nowhere else. You’ll be a nurse for decades if you enter the profession. You’ll attend UCLA for 2. With your upper-division years still in front of you they may overshadow everything else, but if you talk to people even a few years out of college I bet they’ll tell you that college was fun but not the most important thing. </p>