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A 3.5 is pretty good depending on when you plan to enroll in the BSN program. If you try to start in the fall, expect it to be way more competitive. I graduated from WSU, they only accept 90-120 students per semester and if I had applied for the fall I would have been competing with about 450+ other pre-nursing students. Spring semester there were about 200 hopefuls and so there was a little less focus on the super high GPA. The required GPA for WSU is only a 2.8 but I never heard of anyone being accepted with less than a 3.2. I had a 3.5 and got into the program's spring start without a problem. Can't speak for the other programs, but that was a pretty common trend while I was there.
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many schools provide open source on how they grade applicants and what the recent score has been.. so you can plug in your individual grades within their scoring method to see if you are competitive.. its often based on specific courses rather then your overall gpa.. or a combination of both. Other factors are out there.. like WSU takes majority of applicant slots to only those within their consortium of undergrad schools and if you are outside that you are competing for a small number of slots- you can talk to admin staff there, they told me this over the phone.. UW's info is on their website and audio intro...
MrsCrypes
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sounds excellent to me, but how competitive is it and what was the lowest GPA accepted last semester?