1460 on GRE and not accepted?

[sandmanwife]

Hello,

This is my first time posting so here is a little background...

My husband works at a level 1 trauma hospital in the neuro trauma ICU unit. He has worked there for 1 1/2 years. BSN gpa is 3.5. Before that he had a wonderful 6 years working as a polysomnograph technologist doing sleep studies. He gained a wealth of knowledge in upper airway management during those six years.

My husband received a 1460 on the gre. Yes, my husband is smart :) With such a good gre score we decided that it was time to go ahead and apply to a few nurse anesthesia schools. We heard back from a school in FL that they were missing a peice of info from his nursing school. They said as soon as they received it then the application would be complete. We mailed the missing info yesterday and to our surprise received a letter in the mail from this FL school saying that my husband was not accepted.

My poor husband is so bumbed...so am I I guess we are confused....didn't even get an interview? The application wasn't even complete yet!?

He's been trying to get a hold of the program director but with no luck.

Any insight on this matter?

btw...I am my husband's #1fan...we work as a team. :)

[glasgow3]

Any insight on this matter?

Admission to any competitive graduate program may involve factors you have never considered. As others have suggested, the "winners" are NOT necessarily those with the highest GPA and/or GRE scores. Trust me when I tell you that your husband's state of residence, your husband being a male, your husband's ethnicity/race, the particular school from which your husband graduated, whether or not you require financial aide and to what degree, ........I could go on and on...

point being, each school has certain things that they are looking for in order to meet certain needs and the specifics can vary from year to year depending upon the pool of available applicants.

You and your husband will never know for sure exactly why he was not selected. A grade point of 3.5 is not unusual in this age of grade inflation. There are certain to be applicants who have higher scores-----but I'll also hazard to guess that at least a couple of the successful applicants had the same or even a lesser GPA.

[MissNikkiRN]

I had an experience that was like this one. It was the very first nursing school I had applied to. They already had the people they wanted before we finished the entrance exams. I was told it would take two weeks to get the results and three days later I received a letter which was dated the same day as the entrance exams stating that I was not accepted. That' s ok because I was accepted somewhere else. Now I am licensed and searching for a job. Keep on trying and definitely look into other programs.

Good Luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ssrhythm]

I'll build on that and take this a different direction. His grades are good enough, his GRE is great, and his experience will help for sure. As stated, there are a lot of things that go into choosing the class, these criteria are different from institution to institution, and some of the criteria aren't necessarily just. That said, if your husband isn't chosen for whatever reason, you will eventually look back on the rejection and be thankful for it; of this, I am certain. He will get in somewhere, and the fit where he gets in WILL be better than would be the fit at any school who rejects his application. I'm confident that it will all work out.

That said, here is some info that I lived by while applying and that y'all may find helpful. I don't know what was missing from the application, but be paranoid about the application process and personally determine that everything the institution requests gets there. Do this even if it means going to his undergrad school and personally asking and making sure that all documentation was sent and sent on time. Being a CRNA is a LOT about paying attention to every detail; being an SRNA is about paying attention to every detail and taking responsibility for any missed details whether or not they were your fault. If something doesn't arrive in time, a lot of schools are going to take the stance that it was the fault of the applicant no matter what the circumstances surrounding the information omission. So, in this process, don't trust anybody else to do anything that is important to the application without following up on it. Every detail is important.

Congratulations in advance, because I know you two will get it done. It seems that your husband has a fantastic support system in you, and that too is very important.

[sandmanwife]

Thank you all again. THIS is a wonderful support system :)

[bucknangler]

I wouldn't appeal it only because CRNA schools are very stubborn. You don't want to make a bad name for yourself next year.

Believe it or not, you might be surprised to know the references one uses could be the very reason you don't get in...people can be cruel.

I have a buddy who got into a very competitive crna program with a 920 GRE and GPA of 3.1, but he is well rounded regarding the other parameters.... I'm pretty sure other applicants were rejected with higher scores for his class; they only look at the scores to make sure you can do a master's level program and use your references, experience, etc...to value your worth regarding the other characteristics needed in a program.

Your husband will get there, he is closer than he thinks :)

[FST6]

Could also be he only has 1 1/2 years as in ICU nurse. The applicants he was competing against may have had more than that on average. While most programs say 1 year is the minimum required, I'm sure most applicants to CRNA programs have 2 years or more. Tell your husband to stay strong and keep going for it!