Has Being a Male Benefited you MORE or LESS

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Hello my name is Richard and i had a question for the male nursing students out there. Do you believe being a male benefited you in ANY way during the admissions process? how about in your interview (if you had one) Or how about a professor making a comment about you being a male nurse? Please post your experience so far. Do you really believe in the minority quota? Lets say you have identical admissions criteria as a female, would they give priority over a male?

[xdrowe]

Hello my name is Richard and i had a question for the male nursing students out there. Do you believe being a male benefited you in ANY way during the admissions process? how about in your interview (if you had one) Or how about a professor making a comment about you being a male nurse? Please post your experience so far. Do you really believe in the minority quota? Lets say you have identical admissions criteria as a female, would they give priority over a male?

From my research, you are given priority when it comes to heavy lifting.

[MrChicagoRN, RN]

Difficult question to answer....

It's often hard to distinguish male privilege from white privilege....

,,,or maybe it's just my clinical knowledge, personality, and overall wonderfulness.

[kyfitch, BSN]

I believe there may have been some SLIGHT benefit to being a male. However, I also had military experience as a FMF corpsman which I believe had more to do with me getting in than anything. I had a decent GPA of around a 3.7 but that isn't amazing and a lot of others had 4.0's. I have been through 4 semesters of nursing school so far, and I'll admit its been difficult. The instructors definitely don't treat you any different than the women once you are in the program. I only have 1 year left. I can't wait!! Good luck to you man.