How important is your g.p.a

calledtodo · Oct 25, 2009

Some people aren't able to do their absolute best in nursing school due to home life situation, work and kids. Some people can get straight A's despite any distractions etc., but very few can. Put the average achievers in a bubble and you would be surprised that their grades and go up.

DorothyzbornakBSN · Oct 26, 2009

i have a gpa of 3.840 and trying to get into rutgers in nj to study advanced practice in women's health now am nervous i dont know if its good enough help!!!!!! :sniff:

HappyMeNow · Oct 28, 2009

i have a gpa of 3.840 and trying to get into rutgers in nj to study advanced practice in women's health now am nervous i dont know if its good enough help!!!!!!

Do you know what the admission requirements are? I think your GPA should be good enough, but do check and if it's in the low range, find out what else they look at. I doubt it's all based on GPA.

I read somewhere that it's not just your overall gpa that matters, but some graduate schools will want to know which courses you excelled at and which courses you didn't.

I definitely want to go to graduate school and that's why I'm hard on myself to get as high of a grade as I possibly can. One of my classmates and I were talking about grades and she said look, this is not just some electives I'm taking, this is my career, so you better be damned sure that I'm trying to get an A in this class!

I love her spirit. :redbeathe

DorothyzbornakBSN · Oct 28, 2009

thanks pandaluck for replying. the school does not take GRE if you have a gpa of 3.2 and above but there is a lot of competition and that's what am afraid of and almost everyone i spoke with has a 3.9 and above and there are limited seats. i enrolled for the spring but i have not received word about being admitted, spring starts in january and we are going into november so when will we start hearing yes or no am so nervous. does anyone know of someone who has received a yes or a no. thanks.

HappyMeNow · Oct 28, 2009

I wish you the best of luck!

The way my admission process went was, I came on the message board and read that some people were celebrating their acceptances. I decided to place a call to the school and it turned out that I just never received the letter. So if you are anxious, maybe you can call the school and just see if they've mailed out all their letters yet?

Also, I know a few people who didn't get accepted right away and were on the waiting list that still got in.

Think positive!

DorothyzbornakBSN · Oct 28, 2009

thanks i will call the school. when i got into the lpn program i was on the waiting list. when i got into the bsn program i was also on the waiting list maybe that may be the case yet again. thank you for all the encouragement.

Music in My Heart · Oct 28, 2009

that is what our nursing instructor told us, it is illegal for an employer to ask for your GPA. I will see her next week, I'll ask her where she got her info from.

Nursing instructors can be wrong... especially about topics outside of their area of expertise.

I'd be reluctant to parrot their statement as fact without having verified it myself.

Music in My Heart · Oct 28, 2009

It is not illegal to ask about your GPA.
It is, however, illegal to ask an applicant if they are married, have children, or have pre-existing medical conditions, or are a veteran. If these things are discovered by other means, these cannot be used in hiring decisions.
However, in many states, other situations can be used for hiring decisions. This includes whether you are gay/straight or whether you are pregnant. There are no federal employment protections for sexual orientation or pregnancy status.

Hm. You'd think that pregnancy status would fall under either "children" or "medical conditions" or both.

Music in My Heart · Oct 28, 2009

Some people aren't able to do their absolute best in nursing school due to home life situation, work and kids. Some people can get straight A's despite any distractions etc., but very few can. Put the average achievers in a bubble and you would be surprised that their grades and go up.

Well yes, that's true that personal situations often adversely affect school performance... but then again, they can also adversely affect work performance.

One's work life doesn't occur in a bubble, either.

I firmly believe that, as a part of the overall picture, grades do matter. They are one piece of evidence which, combined with others, help to paint a picture of the candidate's personality, intellect, maturity, work ethic, and ability to cope with stress and adversity.