Hi, the commit day is coming soon and I’m stuck between Uconn and Scranton for nursing. Both are very different. For Scranton I would be recruited for a sport but Uconn is cheaper by like 2000$ which isn’t that much I don’t think. Would love more insight on both schools… thanks!
If sports are a huge part of you, seems a no brainer.
Does one have better access to a hospital? Are both direct admit - it appear so.
Scranton is Jesuit - does that matter to you? is that important to you?
Good luck.
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2,000 isn’t a huge difference but it can be to some so make sure your parents are ok with it. My coworker got her BSN from Scranton and loved her experience and even met her husband there. Another coworkers son did his premed there and loved it. It really seems like you don’t have a bad choice so choose the school you like best. You have to spend 4 years there so you should really like everything or enough about the school itself.
I’d take a serious look at the time commitment for your recruited sport and the time commitment for the nursing program and see how many hours a day that leaves you and how you feel about that.
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I think that UConn affords you more opportunity, broader horizons. It’s a well-respected flagship state U with many majors, with a large university teaching hospital. Overall, UConn is a highly selective institution, meaning that you’ll have high-achieving classmates. If for some reason you decide that you want to transfer out of nursing, you’d have many options at UConn. And when you want to go to a city, you have Boston maybe an hour away, and NYC a little over 2 hrs away.
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