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?

Specializes in Emergency.

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

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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.

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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.

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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!

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Specializes in Vascular Surgery.

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.

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

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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.

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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.

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When I applied to RN programs here in GA (at least here in Augusta) the impression that I got was that as a male you definitely had a leg up on the competition. Don't get me wrong, I was very competitive with my prereqs, but I was straight up told that as a male I would have no problem getting in... and that was before they had seen my records.

I believe that it has a lot to do with the program, and the male-female ratio in the community/region (how much the school wants to increase local diversity). I believe that in WA and CA (my last homes) I would not have been so "warmly" recieved as I was in GA. My suggestion would be to do your best in your prereqs. Do not assume that having a small chromosomal difference and a piece of dangling anatomy will be your golden ticket.

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It seems that in my ADN program, the advisors (which are all female) tend to be harder on the female students. This may just be my opinion and observation as a male student. But that could change as the second year will be starting in a few weeks.

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My take on it is that our program is looking for more men to get into the program. I'm not sure if it is gender biased or not, but I do remember a year ago when I applied and got in alot of people said it would be easier for me because I was a man...........not sure if it is true or not. But I feel like sometimes the staff and faculty are a little different toward me then the other female students....

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:banghead:i was wandering that too. However i have only been able to atain a c avg in my A&P classes. not bad for a guy with a ged and a 8th grade educaion,but i dont think that impresses them lol. Anyway i was wandering if any guys have been accepted in the nursing program with C averages.

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