Does being a guy have any affect on being accepted into your schools nursing program?

The male applicants will need to meet the same requirements that the females do for acceptance to the school. That is completely equal. Entry can be easier for males that meet the criteria if the school has a quota because not as many men apply. I had 4 males in my class and 3 graduated.

I don't know how my school goes about deciding who gets in sooner. All I know is that I waited two semesters from my intial signup to acceptance. This gave me time to finish all but one pre-req (Micro). But, since I already had a Bachelors degree in another field, I was able to take Micro concurrent with Nrsg I.

Listening to others in my class tell of being on the list for 2 - 4 yrs before acceptance does make me sometimes feel as though I had someone in the admissions dept looking out for me, but I hope it's because I had a 3.5 GPA from my Bachelors and I got all As on the pre-reqs I had to take while waiting to get accepted, rather than because I am male.

Interesting that someone said their school takes more males over females. I would like to know where that school is and how many men graduate each year. I have found that there are not as many male applicants as females, and that the schools (at least mine) accept you based on your GPA not your gender. My class started out with 5 men, and when we graduated we only had one male. The other 82 were female. It had nothing to do with gender, but grades and desire. He works with me and is one of the best nurses I know....I think more men should consider nursing as a profession, but the reality is that it is still considered a female dominated profession.
Amy

Well my husband got into the ADN program for this fall on his first try. But he's got excellent placement scores ( 100% on the math part and high 90s on reading and writing) and had a GPA of 3.7 from previsous classes and program. But the Director of the programs said she was glad that a male had gotten in.

I have recently applied to 3 nursing schools. I have been rejected at one hopital based nursing program due to the competitiveness. A week later I received a letter stating that if I take my pre-nursing classes at this institution I would have guaranteed admission within a year. Needless to say, I will not apply to this school ever again. I am currently working as a respiratory therapist and have a biology degree. I also have a 3.4 GPA. This is just frustrating about all the hoops I have to jump thru to get into the RN program. I am hoping that I will be accepted into the UNCC nursing program this Spring 09.

Didn't know the Charlotte area was so competitive!

Some schools still offer preferential admission for 'minority groups. At 10% of the workforce men are seen as a minority group and sometimes given preferential admission.

Not at my school. It was all about the TEAS, grades, essay, and interview.

It's sort of odd this as I now live in Denmark, and if you are male and you apply to nursing school, as I understood it, it is guaranteed, surely we have to meet the same critera as the women, they just really really need men.
Here in Denmark it's easy, but in Sweden gender makes no difference when you apply to nursing school since all university applications are centralized trough one system.

At the school I applied to, there are about 10 of us males and 50 females competing for 25 spots. I doubt they will admit all 10 males.