I am a current freshman nursing major at Seton Hall University, and HATE IT WITH A BURNING PASSION. I am looking to transfer into either nursing or biology programs at schools with good rankings and located down south. Some places I am looking at are UMiami, UFlorida, Tulane, Virginia Tech, etc? I would love recommendations/answers for where I should be looking? I want a school that’s at least medium sized, has lots of school spirit, and a strong sense for sports, while also having a high ranking academically. BLAST AWAY!
Just curious on why you hate Seton Hall?
I know someone very well who graduated in nursing from Seton Hall, and went on to do a master’s at Columbia. She has since been very successful in a nursing career.
One very important issue is that you should not transfer unless and until you can figure out that you are transferring to a place that you will like better. We do occasionally see posts on CC from students who transferred, and now want to either transfer again to a third (or in one case fourth) school, or who want to transfer back to their first school.
Most importantly: Why do you hate Seton Hall? You have named some other very good schools, but why would you want to attend any of them instead of attending Seton Hall?
Also important: What is your budget, your state of residence, and your GPA (high school and university)?
Does Tulane even have nursing? How did you pick these schools?
I think you will find that only a limited number of schools take applications for sophomore transfers into the nursing program. U of Cincinnati is one that does (and the city is right on the Kentucky border so it’s at least southern-adjacent). U of Kentucky and U of Memphis also allow transfer students to compete with internal applicants for sophomore admission to nursing. I’m sure there are others, but a seamless transition may be difficult. Your other option is to transfer into a non-clinical major and prepare to appy to entry-level MSN programs.
I’m not sure if you’re still checking this thread, but UNC Chapel Hill is a perfect match for all of your criteria.
It is one of only two public universities in the US to meet the full need of all admitted domestic students, and it’s much easier to be admitted as a transfer since the cap on the number of out-of-state students is only enforced for freshman admissions.
The downside is that UNC Nursing typically accepts applications only from students finishing their sophomore years, and Carolina students are not guaranteed admission to the nursing program.
UNC Chapel Hill accepts transfer students every year. Where can I find the data？
I hate Seton Hall for myself. I think the school is just personally a little small for my liking and their science programs seem to be severely underfunded, the skeletons in my lab classes were falling apart. I am not interested in doing nursing anymore, I am focusing on pre med now (specifically a biology program or maybe even sociology).
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The transfer data for 2017/18 starts on p11 of the CDS. It does not break out the data by school/nursing/major
https://oira.unc.edu/files/2018/06/CDS_2017-2018_20180605.pdf
Here are the transfer admissions contacts, don’t hesitate to reach out to them:
https://studentsuccess.unc.edu/transfer-students-contact/
“I am not interested in doing nursing anymore”
This is a very important point that was missing from your original post.
“I am focusing on pre med now”
Another important point that is missing: What was your high school GPA, and what is your university GPA?
Premed has of course been discussed in detail in many threads on CC. There are a very large number of universities that have very strong premed programs. As such there are a huge number of schools to choose from and the “prestige” of your undergraduate school does not matter much at all.
Two things that are critically important:
You need to maintain a very high GPA if you actually want to have a chance to get into medical school. As such your current GPA matters, and attending a university that has significant grade deflation is a bad idea. Most schools with significant grade deflation are famous and highly ranked.
Medical school is expensive. You need to avoid debt for undergrad. As such staying in-state is likely to be a very good idea at this point in time.
I have now found from your other thread that you have a 3.3 GPA from your first semester. If you want to have medical school as an option then you will need to pull this up a bit. Do you have a plan for how you are going to improve your GPA?
What classes have you taken so far?
If your first semester GPA is a 3.3 check out whether DO schools (Med schools with osteopathy) would be of interest as well as PA programs.
Have you started volunteering and shadowing? Even if you do that as a student-nurse it still counts 
What can your parents afford without debt?
If you’re serious about med/do school, you should consider your instate universities. What state are you from?
Premed? You got a 3.3 in nursing-level sciences. Premed sciences are more difficult.
How much will your parents pay per year?
What was your GPA and ACT/SAT scores?
What is your home state?
What classes did you take last semester and what grades did you get in each?
I grew up in NY. I took anatomy, anatomy lab, sociology, Spanish, English, and university life. I am also part of seton hall’s nursing leadership development cohort
Look into SUNYs perhaps to ensure a transfer option. Most SUNYs will be bigger than Seton Hall and cheaper too.
A 3.3 is decent for nursing but crippling for pre-med. Basically you’d need straight As from now on, in much harder courses. Give yourself a semester to try but be ready to picot I’d you can’t get straight As this semester.
Biology has a low return on investment because there’s a huge oversupply of bio majors. If you can major in Physics you may be better off. Sociology has prospects if you can minor or double minor in statistics.
Most universities have physics, sociology, and statistics majors so those choices shouldn’t be too limiting.
Transferring can be tough but it is doable.
I would think VaTech is a reach. Tulane and U Miami would be high reaches and UF nearly impossible. Also you would be competing with premed rock stars and the sciences would be really tough to help lift your gpa at these schools. Not that you can’t its just coming in later in the game.
Academically and economically Bing and UB would be possible. But the competiton would not be any less intense for grades in the pre med math and sciences.
So…good schools with solid premed paths. Good school spirit/sports and medium to large size campuses that would be potentially more accessible as transfer…
I would think about larger and medium sized public universities like Wyoming ASU UDel Oregon State, James Madison, West Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth. More selective imho would be options like FSU, Miami of Ohio (probably even more selective), MIchigan State. Many others but this is the range and meets your stated objectives.
I was accepted to University of Pittsburgh premed program!
Congratulations @gkk1100 you have wanted to leave Seton Hall nursing and head to a pre-med program and you did it! You got in. You were talking warm weather before but PITT is a great school. Did you apply anywhere else or just PITT? If not , where to go? PITT
i applied to Pitt for nursing and was deferred to Johnstown campus and did not like it so I reapplied for premed. I really liked the school before and Pitt has an amazing premed program but I am waiting on the other schools I applied to. I applied to Pitt, Delaware, GWU, Clemson, vtech, jmu, uMiami, tulane, SUNY bing. I’m excited to hear back from Tulane, jmu, vtech, and Delaware.
Accepted to Tulane!!!