Getting into NP school

TheNewbie · Aug 21, 2016

The schools I applied to had different criteria. Some only look at the last 2 years of your undergraduate degree. Others were stricter and looked at your cumulative undergrad GPA or even your science (pre req) GPA. It just depends on the school.

gelli.25 · Aug 21, 2016

Agreed. It depends on the school itself. Some look at your overall GPA. Some look at only the last 60 hours or nursing courses and sciences. Some look at last 60 hours/nursing courses AND overall GPA.

CoolLikeThat · Aug 21, 2016

Depends on the school, but there are a few online programs that take anyone with a checkbook.

allnurses Guide · Aug 22, 2016

Hey everyone!
I will be finishing my asn program in december with a gpa of about a 2.75 and i am planning to take my BSN after 6 months or so of being an RN, and i was wondering, when applying to an MSN-NP program, do schools look at your overall gpa, or just, per say, RN-BSN gpa?
thanks!!

Honestly, you are going to have a difficult time getting into a quality NP program with a GPA of 2.75. Hopefully in your RN-to-BSN program you can improve that. Different programs calculate in different ways, but your pre-req classes and core nursing classes will play a major role in whatever way they do calculate, and most of those with be from before your RN-to-BSN.

elkpark · Aug 22, 2016

Depends on the school. When I applied to graduate school, I got asked about an F I had gotten in badminton 20 years earlier, the first time I went to college (didn't finish a degree at that time), long before I ever thought about going into nursing.

Buyer beware, BSN · Aug 24, 2016

Depends on the school, but there are a few online programs that take anyone with a checkbook.

Yes. And they are mostly but not limited to the for-profits. Go to collegescorecard.ed.gov to look at undergraduate and retention rates of most of these lovelies and use that information to deduce how well their graduate programs will do you in turn.

By the time they are finished with you, you'll have to order more checks, but know, student loans are the real objects of their desire.

tcvnurse, BSN, RN · Aug 25, 2016

For the school I got to, a competitive student had a GPA of 3.7 You had to have at LEAST a 3.5 to apply. I am not sure you'd get in with that low of a GPA. Maybe take a few fluff classes try to beef it up?

Buyer beware, BSN · Aug 27, 2016

Depends on the school, but there are a few online programs that take anyone with a checkbook.

Yes and by far most of those are the expensive and poorly performing for-profit schools as exemplified by the University of Phoenix and EDMC run South University.

But don't take my word for it, So as to not be accused of bias, look them up yourself at (collegescorecard.ed.gov) and start your real post secondary education.

SopranoKris, MSN, RN, NP · Aug 28, 2016

Yes and by far most of those are the expensive and poorly performing for-profit schools as exemplified by the University of Phoenix and EDMC run South University.
But don't take my word for it, So as to not be accused of bias, look them up yourself at (collegescorecard.ed.gov) and start your real post secondary education.

It only gives data about 4 year undergrad programs. Nothing about grad school.

Bcraven · Sep 2, 2016

I just got accepted into Simmons College's ASN-FNP program. Simmons is ranked #16 in Northwest Regional Schools and has a 100% ANCC pass rate. My overall GPA is only a 3.1, my ASN gpa is 3.3 and also I had a 3.3 in LPN school. I just graduated RN school last December 2015, but immediately landed a job in the NICU. I think that worked in my favor. Also, I basically begged and told them to forgive my freshmen year grades because that ultimately brought my GPA down tremendously.

jcruz981 · Sep 2, 2016

yea in my pre-reqs, i had about a 3.2, but my gap took a big hit in nursing school. Plus our grading scale isn't on a 10 point scale like some schools, which seems kinda unfair to me, but whatever. But yea, I'm determined to get a 4.0 on my last semester and get a 4.0 in my RN-BSN program and hopefully get into a good quality NP program.