Please help! UPenn vs UCI vs UW

[kgiesch]

Hi! I've been on here before but I was just asking for some help. I'm a senior in high school about to graduate, and right now I'm having to choose my undergraduate university. I want to be a neonatal nurse practitioner, and so I'm looking into BSN programs. I've been accepted into UPenn (and Azusa Pacific, but the campus was too small for me) and I believe that I likely be accepted into University of Washington general but would still have to apply for nursing my junior year, and I am not sure about UCI or UCLA but in the case that I got into all Penn, UW, and UCI, do you have any input on what to choose?

Penn is very expensive and far away from home in California but it seems amazing and it's hard to turn the Ivy League down. UW is awesome but it seems stressful to have to apply for nursing my junior year and have the potential to not get in. UCI seems wonderful but I don't know a ton about the nursin program and I've heard it is a commuter campus?

any advice is greatly appreciated!!

[zzbxdo]

At this point maybe you need to research each program individually to know a ton. And maybe the market in California for nurses. Are these direct entry BSN programs? I wouldn't spend a ton of money over the name brand of am ivy league or private school, the amount of debt to income ratio isn't worth it. Plus you don't have the networking of local clinicals, staff and managers.

So why haven't you mentioned any of the CSUs? Without a doubt, best education in ca and the reputation follows with large local institutions. And what's wrong with AP having a small campus or UCI being a commuter school?