If admitted to a CNM program(or graduated) what were your stats?

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Specializes in L&D.

I am curious what your stats are if you have been admitted/graduated from a CNM program?

GRE/GPA/Experience and what program are you in/graduated in?

Also, if you are applying or planning to apply....feel free to share your stats and where you are planning to apply.

I'm interested in knowing this too.

I'm still a sophomore in a BSN program and I've been maintaining a 3.5 average.

I'm in the University of Cincinnati program and the requirement is a 3.0 in your last nursing degree and no GRE required :). I have another MSN in Nursing Education so that was the GPA they took, not my BSN (thank goodness because working nights and going to school did not agree with me.) I had 2.5 years of L&D experience plus almost 2 years of NICU experience prior to that when I applied. I am also on the maternal transport team at my job and advanced fetal monitoring certified. The thing is every program and every admission cycle is different. My advice is to apply early, I had my application in late August for a deadline that wasn't until late November and got my acceptance letter 2 weeks after I submitted the final documents for my application.

Specializes in Nurse-Midwife.

Just a note: I found that it was much easier to get admitted to CNM programs than it was to get a L&D position as an RN. And, when I thought about it - graduate schools are looking to make money through tuition and hospitals are hiring an individual that they are going to pay to train and employ - so the impetus is different. The hospital could pay to train a new L&D RN, and have that person quit or not like the position, and then they lose on that investment. Even if a grad student fails out in the first term, the university keeps that tuition. Oh, and hospitals want to check a special box that says "BSN" when they hire nurses. Graduate programs were much more willing to accept my non-nursing Bachelor's degree as a legitimate degree.

GPA: 3.8 (non nursing bachelor's) 3.7 (ADN)

Graduate nursing school is FAR LESS RIGOROUS than my non-nursing Bachelor's degree.

I have no idea what BSNs think of these programs, if they think they're rigorous, or challenging, or what. I know I was held to a much higher academic standard in my state university Bachelor of Science program.

Not to diss nursing - I earn 3x-4x as much with an ADN than I could have with my Bachelor's.

I just think my Bachelor's education was more rigorous, scientific and thorough.

Specializes in L&D.

Queenanne what was your bachelors in? I have a bachelors as well in Sociology which wasn't hard for me and then my ASn and am doing an RN to BSN now. My ASN was pretty rigorous and hard.

Also how do you count your nursing GpA? Just count up credit hours vs quality points?

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