Nursing School Admissions

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Hey Y'all!

I have a question about nursing school admissions...

I am coming from a kind of unique situation. I am a senior in high school but I duel enrolled in community college so I am getting my associate's degree and completing the nursing prerequisites now. This way, right after I graduate high school I will (hopefully) be going straight into upper-class nursing and I am applying to nursing schools now. When nursing school admissions are considering my GPA, will they use my weighted GPA from the duel enrolled classes I took for high school? I know that the general university does, but I am not sure about the actual college of nursing within the universities.

For example, one of the places I am applying to is UNF. the way they decide on admissions is through your TEAS score and your GPA. they add up the points you got from your TEAS score and add up GPA (times 100, so if I have a 3.9 (unweighted) GPA my score would be 390).

Does anyone know if they will use my weighted GPA?

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Specializes in NICU.

Each school decides on their own admission requirements. There are no universal admission formulas.

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Specializes in Oncology.

Look carefully at the admissions criteria for the programs you're considering, because they're all wildly different. My school only considered my HESI score and my grades in A&P I and II and microbiology. They didn't even look at anything else I'd ever done (I already had an associate's by that point).

Some schools only look at GPA, or science GPA, or TEAS/HESI scores, and some look at a combination of some or all of those.

Even then, most schools have some sort of ranking scale that they put those criteria against. I believe my school scores applicants, giving them a number 50% based on HESI and 50% based on those three prereqs.

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You could always reach out to the schools you are interested in and see what they have to say.

good luck!

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nursing school is no different that the university it is apart of. So if your GPA from your dual classes is a 3.9, then you have a 3.9, assuming they accept dual classes which they should. But you should definitely call your school of interest.

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Night and day between what schools require. I would suggest checking out every school's website.

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