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

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I know this seems like a really stupid question but I wanted to see what the people on here have found out from personal experience. Not too long ago I was talking with a group of fellow nursing students about the process of getting accepted into the nursing program at our college. A few of the students said that out of all the students they knew that applied for the program most of the time men who applied were accepted after their first or maybe second attempt, while most other students are accepted after their second or third time applying. During the discussion, I told them that I didn't really think that being a guy (and a minority) was what led to this situation but they seemed to disagree and suggested I ask some other guys at this website and some other nursing students overall and see what they think. What does everyone think about this?

Anyone who thinks they got into a program just for being a guy is selling themselves short.

First of all, I'm fairly sure it would be illegal and at the very least unethical to accept or deny someone to a nursing program based on gender alone.

If you get in, its because you had the grades to do so and not because of some malecentric affirmative action.

To go a step further, being a guy will not help you find a job once you graduate. I'm not saying its harder, its just that from my experiences trying to find a job it appears that grades, academic acheivement, and clinical performance (and yes, being a man) have less to do with being hired than knowing the right people and networking.

In a tight hiring market where no one wants to risk hiring a new graduate nurse, its all about personal clout with people in the right places and nothing to do with your Y chromosome.

At my school the point system is used to determine who makes it into the clinical classes. No extra points for being male or female.

I don't know if it helps with admission but at my school we have a new scholarship program for minorities which includes males. It really helped out a lot of the guys in our program and I thought was a good way to encourage more underrepresented groups to enter nursing.

I don't know if it helps with admission but at my school we have a new scholarship program for minorities which includes males. It really helped out a lot of the guys in our program and I thought was a good way to encourage more underrepresented groups to enter nursing.

The relationship that I experienced was similiar to the what I experienced in Womans Psychologly 20 years later

You are in the same place but not the same context

You will get the heavy lifiting assigmnets, transfer patients to and from any and every where especialy if they are combative

You will walk with your sisters out to the parking lot at night not realizing the a favor for you is alleviates a very real fear in them

I used to think that when patients were pronunced with a time of death that was sufficent

But my friend Katie reminded me that patients don't expire or become morbidty stats or cadevers ect

They go to heaven

Men and women are treated differently which is a blessing

young and old and experienced and inexperienced transcend gender

Yes Stevie Boy, viva la difference! :yeah:

i think all of member of my school was accept male student,they all like us

nothing was distrub us right now,most important is we all work as a team here

I applied and was accepted a couple of months ago to a two year nursing program. They score the applicants by ACT scores (up to 4 points), Anatomy I grade (up to 3 points), and give an extra point for a bachelors degree. GPA comes into play if there are ties. There is no preference for race, age or sex.

The school I am in is based ONLY on GPA. The only thing that I and others have noticed is that some of the instructors have something against the male students. In lab no matter what the males do, its not right and some of them get down right mad and even snoty at the male students. And then a female student does it just as we did, or not even as good and they tell her "oh good job that is how we like to see it done" and the males stand there in aww that some of them dont even try to hid it.

I notice and have been told that all schools have issues with, when you ask 3 different lab instructors you will get 3 different answers. Then when you take the lab check off (test) and you fail because this other instructors tells you that is not how you do what ever it is, even if 10 min before you were just told that by an instructor. :angryfireIts very frusterating:angryfire. I finaly said something to one of them and she said "I think we are very consistent":eek: I said "yes you guys, you all give different answers that is what is consistent.":smokin:Its to late to change schools now so I just have to deal with it, well all the people in my class have to. :o

Thanks for all the answers ladies and gents, I was just wondering what other people have found. I did get accepted this semester so I am pretty stoked. Thanks again!

!Chris :specs:

Woot! Gratz chris! =D

Good luck!

if a school is actually admitting less qualified male applicants over highly qualified female candidates then i'd imagine that'd be grounds for a sex discrimination lawsuit. if female applicants genuinely feel they are being discriminated against then i'd encourage them to pursue legal action. it shouldn't be hard for a good nursing program to clearly show why particular applicants were accepted over others. this is why most programs have a clearly defined point system.

it may simply be a matter of male applicants being more qualified. in my experience, the few male nursing applicants i've met have all been very determined and driven. when you consider the much larger volume of female applicants, there's a much wider variation in levels of commitment. you'll find those that are dead set on getting in but there's also the bunch that chose nursing b/c they didn't know what else to go into and they heard it pays well.

if all 5 of the male applicants applying to a program have awesome apps and get accepted it does NOT mean the program accepts 100% of male applicants. lol that's just a silly misinterpretation of stats.

I agree with this post. It has noting to do with gender. Most of the time, men who peruse nursing as a major does it for a big reason. There is all basis and accusations among them that many men don't really like to become nurses. I foremost chose this major since i really want to be in touch with the patient and I have better grades than all nurses, hopefully. I have 4.0 and no less than 3.7.

Most women in that field, they are not really attracted to that major. They just do it for money and its also so called "women job with better pay compared to other jobs."

all the RNs i know have said being a male and a minority does make it easier to get into nursing schools, but it depends on the admission policy, and if there is a percentage of males they have to let in.

I recently got accepted to the nursing program into my school (which isn't g'town, BTW), and in most cases, it shouldn't. I guess it would all depends on where your school's at, and how easy/difficult it is to get into you school's program. For me, I was given a list of a certain GPA I was to obtain, and the chances of getting into the school of nursing with the GPA's that were listed. I would think that would be the same everywhere, but I can't say for certain

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