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

On 4/9/2020 at 9:01 PM, Redrose11 said:

Hi everyone,

I been creeping this forum for the past 2 years and I just got my acceptance to UofT. I am still in shock right now and thankful (I am still unsure if I will be accepting my offer but thought I had share my experience). I wanted to share a bit about myself and my application to give hopes to those still waiting. I am currently a 5th year at UofT and my transcript is not the greatest. After my co-op work term (after 2nd year), I never took a full course load. I am not sure how they calculated my last 5.0 FCEs as I did not take full course load since the end of 2nd year. But I am going to assume its somewhere in the 3.85-3.90. Also, I have had a late withdrawal (LWD - apparently this looks bad on grad/prof school application but can't confirm) on my transcript and had CR/NCR a physiology course (I repeated this course and did well so I guess they looked at the repeated one). So my overall transcript isn't the greatest. A lot of my recent experience was research (undergrad thesis, Summer student, research co-op student) and the little healthcare experience I had was mainly from highschool (hospital volunteering) and was part of a club at Uni. I had good experience but no publications etc. I didn't think I would make it. I think what helped was my reference letters (I had 2 profs and my co-op supervisor and my thesis supervisor). For those of you waiting, I just want let you know (as others have said above) that UofT does not just look at your grades and they accept people with a wide range of experience. I hope you all get into your first choice and regardless of where you go, you will make a great nurse. If you don't get in this year, apply next year (I know someone who applied with the same GPA but more experience and got in after 2 years).

I hope you are all staying safe and please take care of yourselves and if you are still finishing up exams, good luck!

CONGRATS on your acceptance!!!
The person that you said got in after 2 years, did you mean with only 2 years of Uni?? I don’t have a degree yet, but I applied since my grades are good and my supplementary application is great. It wouldn’t make sense for me (especially in this economy) to get a degree in a field I won’t be working in... so I have all my prerequisites that UofT needs and I’m hoping they look at my application holistically. Especially now, they need nurses more than ever.

So nervous!! I know in forums for previous years, UofT accepted people who did not have a degree.

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7 minutes ago, AspiringNurseSDG said:

CONGRATS on your acceptance!
The person that you said got in after 2 years, did you mean with only 2 years of Uni?? I don’t have a degree yet, but I applied since my grades are good and my supplementary application is great. It wouldn’t make sense for me (especially in this economy) to get a degree in a field I won’t be working in... so I have all my prerequisites that UofT needs and I’m hoping they look at my application holistically. Especially now, they need nurses more than ever.

So nervous!! I know in forums for previous years, UofT accepted people who did not have a degree.

I applied to trent after 2 years of uni because I knew I wanted to switch into nursing and I had the prerequisites, however a lot of accelerated nursing program prefer students who are in 4th year or done their degrees so they didn't accept me after 2nd year. However in third year I applied to trent again and uoft, I got into trent but not uoft but I decided to finish my undergrad. Now I'm in my fourth year and so far got into all my choices but I'm still waiting on uoft. So uoft really only accepts 4th year students from what I heard or those done their degrees but Trent did accept me in 3rd year after rejecting me in 2nd year. Hope that helps!

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1 minute ago, Keke98 said:

I applied to trent after 2 years of uni because I knew I wanted to switch into nursing and I had the prerequisites, however a lot of accelerated nursing program prefer students who are in 4th year or done their degrees so they didn't accept me after 2nd year. However in third year I applied to trent again and uoft, I got into trent but not uoft but I decided to finish my undergrad. Now I'm in my fourth year and so far got into all my choices but I'm still waiting on uoft. So uoft really only accepts 4th year students from what I heard or those done their degrees but Trent did accept me in 3rd year after rejecting me in 2nd year. Hope that helps!

oh OK! Thank you! CONGRATS on your current offers.?

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Congratulations to all who have been accepted to U of T! Can't wait to see your beautiful faces next year ❤️

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1 hour ago, AspiringNurseSDG said:

CONGRATS on your acceptance!
The person that you said got in after 2 years, did you mean with only 2 years of Uni?? I don’t have a degree yet, but I applied since my grades are good and my supplementary application is great. It wouldn’t make sense for me (especially in this economy) to get a degree in a field I won’t be working in... so I have all my prerequisites that UofT needs and I’m hoping they look at my application holistically. Especially now, they need nurses more than ever.

So nervous!! I know in forums for previous years, UofT accepted people who did not have a degree.

They already had their degree but applied twice (after completing their degree) before getting in. I think UofT does prefer people who are in their final year or have completed the degree. And I heard they also have mature students applying and people with Master's.

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20 hours ago, Oyin12 said:

hi Samuel, I also got an alternate offer to the honours program, but on the website it says you are gonna get an alternate offer if your prerequisites are not yet complete. I don't know if they will re evaluate it when I get my final grades and prereqs done.

Ooo my didn't know that. Yes I have some prerequisite courses I'm completing this April at athabasca university and SAIT. I think I should send an email to confirm if they ll reevaluate after I submit my final transcripts. I already accepted offer to lakehead university yesterday. I hope that doesn't spoil my chances of getting into Trent if they ll eventually reevaluate.

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New week started!! Hang in there everyone who’s waiting for uoft! Get yourself distracted with your hobbies xx

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hi guys, for those of you who got their acceptances from UofT, where did you accept the offer from? My offer of admission hasn't showed up on UofT. Are we supposed to do it through their Join UofT portal?

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Sorry I mean that I got an offer of admission at the JoinUofT portal but it hasn't shown up on OUAC. Does anyone have any idea when it's supposed to show up there?

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2 minutes ago, Waqas Zaman said:

Sorry I mean that I got an offer of admission at the JoinUofT portal but it hasn't shown up on OUAC. Does anyone have any idea when it's supposed to show up there?

Hey! The first step is to accept it on Join, it says it will take a little bit to show up whether you accepted it or not there (2-3 business days). You click the part that says 'admitted' and then it will give you an option to accept it.

I'm an internal applicant so I don't have to accept it on OUAC, but for external applicants it will take a bit longer for it to show up on OUAC (up to 5 business days) and you will have to accept it there too ?

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Just now, HappyGuarantee123 said:

Hey! The first step is to accept it on Join, it says it will take a little bit to show up whether you accepted it or not there (2-3 business days). You click the part that says 'admitted' and then it will give you an option to accept it.

I'm an internal applicant so I don't have to accept it on OUAC, but for external applicants it will take a bit longer for it to show up on OUAC (up to 5 business days) and you will have to accept it there too ?

Okay I see, the reason I'm asking is because I had an offer of admission from York University last month and I accepted it thinking I won't get admission from UofT. So do I have to cancel the York admission first and then accept it from JoinUofT? I'm also an internal applicant.

and by the way, has your status updated yet to Admitted? I did accept it from Join but it still says "Awaiting"

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Hey everyone!
just wondering if people have heard from Western lately/ if they are still offering acceptances with everything going on? Being stuck at home makes waiting so much harder!

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