A friend of mine that was recently accepted to nursing school said that she went to talk to someone who was on the admissions committee and she asked why she was accepted with only a 3.0 GPA. She was told that she put on her application that she worked an a CNA 20 hours a week and had one child. She is a single parent and took Micro, Chemistry, History, Women's Studies, and statistics all in the same semester. She got B's in the sciences and C's in the other classes. Apparently, the woman told her that she as impressed by the fac that she had failed her first semester at school and still managed to pull up all those F's and that she did not give up. Not only that, she seemed to give the important classes(the sciences ) more attention than the other classes, hence her higher grades in those classes. She does have an A in both A&P I and II and all her other grades are A's and B's. The woman went on further to state that anyone who could perservere and pull up F's and manage to work, take care of a child, and take that many classes would be successful in nursing school. According to her, she frowns upon people who have 4.0 GPA's, but took one or two classes at a time. to her, this is not indicatitive of a person who can handle a high course load and still manage to pass as anyone can take one class and get an A. A person who takes many classes and gets a B average is better than a person who gets an A while taking one class because in nursing school, no one takes one class at a time.
What do you think of these comments? The school she goes to chooses people based on individual decisions made on applications and not point systems or GPA ranks; all you need is at least a 2.8 GPA . my friend thought there was a mistake made (not that she was complaining) especially with all the competition and she asked how the decision had been made.
