GPA questions

Corvette Guy · Jul 30, 2006

I need some advice on my GPA situation. My GPA is slightly below 3.0. I played around my first year of college, which was about 8 yrs ago. Now my overall is suffering. I had a ASN and was a solid B/C student. I have now gone back and gotten my BSN and have re-taken some of my sciences to raise those grades. I have made all A's since I went back to school. Do the programs take into consideration maturity and acheiving better grades the second time around or am I just wasting my time applying?

I know for a fact, the UTHSC-H CRNA program requires a 3.0 GPA & 1000 GRE [w/3.5 on written portion]. My issue was not GPA [mine 3.766], but GPA GRE.

Good luck with your GPA dilemma. Hopefully, someone already a CRNA will point you in the right direction.

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csojet · Aug 3, 2006

I need some advice on my GPA situation. My GPA is slightly below 3.0. I played around my first year of college, which was about 8 yrs ago. Now my overall is suffering. I had a ASN and was a solid B/C student. I have now gone back and gotten my BSN and have re-taken some of my sciences to raise those grades. I have made all A's since I went back to school. Do the programs take into consideration maturity and acheiving better grades the second time around or am I just wasting my time applying?

Hi,

just to let you know. I was in the same situation just a few years ago. I was a straight A student in highchool but due to personal difficulty, received a few bad grades. When I repeated these classes I got all A's. I realized that my future was more important and made the necessary changes in my life. I got into 2 anesthesia schools. Keep your head up. You may get asked why your grades were so low for a time during your interview. Be honest. Point out that your more recent grades show your true academic ability. My cumulative GPA was a 3.3, science GPA 3.5, 1260 on the GRE.

P.S. to offset a low GPA a student should score higher on the GRE

BeatOU · Aug 4, 2006

I personally know SRNA's whose GPA's were less than 3.0 and I also know folks whose GRE's were less than 900 and still got in. When you don't have a perfect resume, you just have to apply to more schools and perhaps look out of your region. It's not like a CRNA school will cancel a school year if they don't have 10 students with 4.0's, 1400 GRE, and 25 years of experience.

If you have to apply to a school who has a choice of 800 applicants then your chances of getting in with marginal GPA/GRE/Experience will be lower.

hook'em.

miaomiao · Aug 5, 2006

Hello everyone! I'm new here and get every excited that I can meet so many nurses here.

I have one question: I want to pursue a career as a CRNA,but I cannot understand what it's meaning: undergraduate degree GPA of 3.0 or higher?I 'll get my nursing bacholar degree from Australia,how can I know my GPA meet the requirements?

Thanks if someone likes to give some answers.

asianrn · Aug 6, 2006

To miaomiao,

check your country's Boards of Nursing..I think as soon as your done with your Bachelors, take your Australian RN license exam, then apply to CGFNS. This is an exam/certification for graduates of foreign nursing school, then if you pass, take the US RN license exam...It's a lot of tests to take believe me, but it will work out in the end. For your GPA question, you can send your transcript to an agency here in the US to be evaluated. Check out http://www.wes.org for the processing...the so-called "undergraduate GPA" is how the US school/university grade their students from a 4.0. Which is 4.0 is the highest grade that you could ever get, a perfect A, then a 3.0 is almost an equivalent to a B.....In each country, like Australia, UK to Japan, and China we all have different grading systems, so if you check out some university here in the US they will require you to send the official transcript directly from your home school to the US university to be evaluated and convert the grade that you have to the US grading system...hope this help..

fungirl · Aug 8, 2006

I need some advice on my GPA situation. My GPA is slightly below 3.0. I played around my first year of college, which was about 8 yrs ago. Now my overall is suffering. I had a ASN and was a solid B/C student. I have now gone back and gotten my BSN and have re-taken some of my sciences to raise those grades. I have made all A's since I went back to school. Do the programs take into consideration maturity and acheiving better grades the second time around or am I just wasting my time applying?

Inquire about how the specific schools you are interested calculate the GPA. Many schools may do it as follows: overall gpa, last 60 hrs gpa, and science gpa. That may help your situation.