Ontario Second Entry Nursing Fall 2020

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Hey, I used to creep these forums for the past few years and they helped affirm my decision to apply to nursing school for Fall 2020. I didn't see one started for next year so I thought, why not start one?

I graduated a while back so I'm a bit older, but my top three choices are:

1. Queen's

2. McMaster

3. York

4. Humber-UNB

Hi everyone!

I'm applying for September 2021 to York, McMaster, Western, Queens, UofT, Trent, and Nipissing. I wanted to know what your opinions were on my stats as I've had my fair share of difficulties during my BSc undergrad here at Waterloo. My cGPA is extremely low due to some mental health struggles I faced during my second year - about 3.0/4, or low to mid 70's. I've also failed two courses during my second year as well, and come close to failing two other courses during my second year. However, the last two years of my undergrad have shown significant improvement since I've dealt with my mental health issues, and I have about an 88% in these last 20 credits/2 years. My EC's include experiences as executive members of a couple clubs on campus, as well as volunteering at a walk-in clinic, an ultrasound/x-ray clinic, and a physiotherapy and sports rehabilitation clinic. I'm also able to get reference letters from a professor and a physician I worked with. 

Does anyone think that I'd get into any of the above schools with my stats? I know that some schools place emphasis on the last 20 credits/2 years of your undergrad, but I'm worried that my second year transcript will prevent me from being accepted.

I'd really appreciate some advice/opinions and I really appreciate everyone taking the time to read this! Thank you and have a splendid day/night!

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12 hours ago, nursemesh said:

Hi everyone!

I'm applying for September 2021 to York, McMaster, Western, Queens, UofT, Trent, and Nipissing. I wanted to know what your opinions were on my stats as I've had my fair share of difficulties during my BSc undergrad here at Waterloo. My cGPA is extremely low due to some mental health struggles I faced during my second year - about 3.0/4, or low to mid 70's. I've also failed two courses during my second year as well, and come close to failing two other courses during my second year. However, the last two years of my undergrad have shown significant improvement since I've dealt with my mental health issues, and I have about an 88% in these last 20 credits/2 years. My EC's include experiences as executive members of a couple clubs on campus, as well as volunteering at a walk-in clinic, an ultrasound/x-ray clinic, and a physiotherapy and sports rehabilitation clinic. I'm also able to get reference letters from a professor and a physician I worked with. 

Does anyone think that I'd get into any of the above schools with my stats? I know that some schools place emphasis on the last 20 credits/2 years of your undergrad, but I'm worried that my second year transcript will prevent me from being accepted.

I'd really appreciate some advice/opinions and I really appreciate everyone taking the time to read this! Thank you and have a splendid day/night!

For uoft: they don't care about your previous as long as your most recent 5.0 is met with their expectation ie 3.5/4.0 (I know it says 3.3 but it’s rare in my cohort). My first and second years were terrible, but I got in since my last 5.0 was 3.6+ without any hiccup. For ECs - it’s not about how many you did. It’s also not about how many hours you did. There is no such section for uoft application that they are measuring the quantity of your EC. Rather, It’s about how you convey what you learned/what you improved and how you are going to use these to become a successful nurse. So as long as you write your statement in a way that shows your capacity, you will be solid. 

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7 hours ago, minibun said:

For uoft: they don't care about your previous as long as your most recent 5.0 is met with their expectation ie 3.5/4.0 (I know it says 3.3 but it’s rare in my cohort). My first and second years were terrible, but I got in since my last 5.0 was 3.6+ without any hiccup. For ECs - it’s not about how many you did. It’s also not about how many hours you did. There is no such section for uoft application that they are measuring the quantity of your EC. Rather, It’s about how you convey what you learned/what you improved and how you are going to use these to become a successful nurse. So as long as you write your statement in a way that shows your capacity, you will be solid. 

Thank you so much for your reply, this definitely gave me some reassurance and I'll for sure use your advice for the personal statement. I hope you're enjoying the program!!

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Hi everyone, I did a bachelors at UofT. But I also took one single course in the University of New England (In the US) last year. Do I need to have this evaluated by WES even though it's in North America? the WES fees are so expensive, I hope I don't have to for only one course.

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Hey everyone!

Does anyone know if mcmaster or nipissing send out early offers? 

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Hi,

Would anyone mind helping me out with the general GPA conversions? I went to York and I'm trying to convert my GPA into a 4.0 one from U of T. I know York and U of T have different letter grades and as a result in some calculators the GPA calculation is different.

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@Kayla810 Nipissing's offers typically don't go out until after interviews are granted/conducted which is normally end of March/beginning of April time (fyi interviews were cancelled this year due to COVID so not sure if they will be held next March or not)

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I had my first degree outside canada and I found out that the way our credit units are allocated, most of my semester courses are 2 units. If I am planning to apply to schools that require Half courses for a certain subject does it mean o gave take on extra courses to make up or does the conversion fulfil the requirements? I emailed your but they said they  can only assess my transcript after I send in my application. 

 

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7 hours ago, Nursetobe2022 said:

I had my first degree outside canada and I found out that the way our credit units are allocated, most of my semester courses are 2 units. If I am planning to apply to schools that require Half courses for a certain subject does it mean o gave take on extra courses to make up or does the conversion fulfil the requirements? I emailed your but they said they  can only assess my transcript after I send in my application. 

 

Where is your degree from? That's really curious that your credits fall short a bit. My understanding is that a standard half-course (or 1 semester) is 3 credits and a full-course (or full-year/2 semester) is 6 credits. A course being 2 units most likely wouldn't be sufficient, then.

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1 hour ago, DreamsOfOceans said:

Where is your degree from? That's really curious that your credits fall short a bit. My understanding is that a standard half-course (or 1 semester) is 3 credits and a full-course (or full-year/2 semester) is 6 credits. A course being 2 units most likely wouldn't be sufficient, then.

Thanks for your response. In the situation where  if I have two different statistics course of 2 credits each and I have a requirement of 3 credits for statistics, I guess I can be able to combine the two statistics to meet the requirements right? 

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15 hours ago, Nursetobe2022 said:

Thanks for your response. In the situation where  if I have two different statistics course of 2 credits each and I have a requirement of 3 credits for statistics, I guess I can be able to combine the two statistics to meet the requirements right? 

Probably not. I tried asking U of T a similar question. They list a lot of research methods courses as fulfilling statistics requirements, and my psych research course in the US was split into two courses so I asked if the statistics course content could be met between two courses...well, they didn't even respond (and are notoriously vague, too). So I'm not risking it and am taking Athabasca's online Stats 215 which is on their accepted list.

You can try asking a few of the schools to see but I have low confidence.

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Hello, I'm applying to McMaster's Nursing program and on Mosaic (the website they use in order to process applications) they require a supplemental application, but when I press on the link it just directs me to this link:

https://nursing.mcmaster.ca/prospective-students/admission#casper

Anyone else encountered this problem? I am now looking at the link itself and I noticed the #casper... is it referring to the CASPER test?

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