9 Pre-reqs, 9 A's - BUT GPA real bad

bear14 · Dec 10, 2012

But dont they take into consideration time and maturity? If your pre req's are all A's it showed you matured and are ready to work. That should be taken into consideration. My GPA was only a 2.4 at my previous school but my pre req's at my school now, were a 3 point something. my school only looked at the NLN score. The only time they looked at your GPA was if you were in a tie with someone.

lei77 · Dec 11, 2012

My GPA has never followed me to another school. The credits transfer but not the GPA. I have been to 4 different schools and it has always been like that. I will be transferring after my ASN to another school to start GPA over again (not crazy about that but this semester just suuucked). I want to consider grad school eventually and we all know how important that GPA is.

that's not really how the gpa works though. when any school is talking about cumulative gpa, they are looking at every college you've ever been to and averaging those gpas. you can't just fail out of one college and expect to start over at a new one. yeah you start over for their new gpa, but your cumulative record stays with you forever

Benj2610 · Dec 21, 2012

Yes... people understand that you change & a 2.2 GPA doesn't matter a whole lot in the grand scheme of things. However, school is very competitive & strict criteria is needed to sift through the huge # of applicants. A state school may have 5x as many applicants as an expensive private school like NYU for example. So therefore if the bar is set at 3.0, anything under may prevent that application from getting passed on to the next desk & even making it to the admissions people. They simply don't have enough hours or manpower to spend time on every application.

A private school on the other hand (and an expensive one no less) can afford to be more selective & look at extra curricular stuff or whatever because they have way less applicants (& they are private so they don't necessarly have to be fair). That being said, if there are 200 applicants applying, you have to figure that 199 are going to have a better GPA than 2.2. So its not a matter of "taking into account your maturity and all" (which they most likely do anyway), its simply about competition & available space. If there are 2 people that both have volunteer experience, 2 impressive letters of recommendation, great essays, etc. I would assume the person with the 3.2 GPA wins over the 2.2 GPA.

Sadala, ADN, RN · Dec 25, 2012

My undergrad is less than spectacular gpa wise as well (not a 2.2 but not quite up to a 3.0 either). But also, as someone else said, that degree is 20 yrs old. I aced the very few pre-reqs I needed and I aced my TEAS. I got accepted into an associate RN program first try, no issues. Find out how your school accumulates the points necessary for entrance. I already knew in advance how many points I was going to need from the head of the program and I got in even though I didn't get the extra 30 pts from my last class because the ap deadline was before I finished that class.

I think you should be able to find a school.

Sadala, ADN, RN · Dec 25, 2012

Also, oddly, my grades from my bachelors aren't factored into my gpa here even though I do have credit for the past courses. Only my prereqs at this school and my grades from nursing school at this school have so far been factored into my current gpa.

I was only 16 when I began my bachelors long ago. I have much different priorities in life now. I think admissions understands things like that and I also think they do want at least some non-traditional students. Just my take on it.