Have anyone ever been denied admission to a program and appealed?

But the catch is that nursing programs are so competitive these days that, even if the published minimum GPA to be eligible is, let's say, 3.0, the schools have so many applicants with higher GPAs that nobody with a 3.0 actually gets in. There are plenty of schools where a 3.65 GPA would not be considered competitive. In the last BSN program in which I taught, the published minimum GPA to apply was 2.0 -- but the school administration was v. proud of the fact that none of the nursing students had less than a 3.6 GPA coming in. And I can pretty much guarantee you that, with the number of highly qualified applicants we got, they probably turned away as many "3.6 people" as they admitted. Nobody with anything less than a 3.6 had even a possibility of getting in, despite the published minimum (and this was not a particularly distinguished or prestigious program -- just an average, run-of-the-mill state U).