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Waitlist will come out as the same time as decisions. Probably won't see movement until the Summer. I don't know if they tell you where you are on the list.

I will if I get rejected at most of my other schools but of the other 3 I’ve heard back from I was accepted at 2 and waitlisted at 1. I have no hard feelings.

My first paragraph I tried to grab the reader's attention. I wrote about the night I found myself trying to flush a client's heroin down the toilet while they were screaming at me, discharge them from our sober living, but also trying to manage the whereabouts of our schizophrenic patient who had a tendency to wander. It was maybe 6 sentences, about 100-150 words. Concluded the sentence with a good transition into the next paragraph about what made me want to be a nurse. I talked about diversity and how Penn would be a wonderful opportunity for me as someone from an underrepresented community to help people like myself. Talked about research and spent a paragraph talking about a few faculty research projects at Penn that aligned with my interests (and tied it back to nursing). One Summer I had nothing to do and spent it reading all of the Harry Potter books for the nth time. I used multiple note books to write down dialogue and its overall linguistic framework as well as key phrases and key physical descriptions of characters. I then spent many weeks writing few hundred pages as a sequel to what would happen right at the end of book 7. I spent a lot of time studying the overall framework so that I could get my voice to sound as similar to JKR's as possible. I also took the ACT and received a 32 on the writing section which was better than any of my other scores. I think I write well and usually get A's on my papers. Maybe that first paragraph or so felt a little too literary for Penn?But, I spent the next 650-700 words tying it together professionally and hitting all the major points. I have a guide from UCLA about how to write grad school applications and used that to make sure I avoided some of the major mistakes people make. I had several people read it over for grammar issues. I think I am a good writer (much easier to type that then actually ever say it allowed to someone hahahah). How I talk on this forum isn't edited much or worked over so my writing style in this moment isn't reflective of how I write when I have time and purpose. Definitely not grammatically correct. As I said before though, there is no way to really know and I can only speculate. Maybe working in drug and alcohol treatment wasn't nurse-y enough for them? I don't think I'm a good candidate to compare against if you have an academic career that is more traditional (3.7 GPA, 21-22 years old, CNA hours, traditional community service, etc.)

Biochemistry Major, 6000+ hours of working in drug and alcohol treatment with direct patient contact. A couple thousand hours of community service and an award from my county for the work I did. Prereq GPA is between 3.73-3.9 depending on the school (I can't remember Penn's prereqs). My overall GPA for the past 4 years is a 3.66 (128 credit hours in that time and only 10 units were non-science), but my overall is GPA 3.08 due to some very bad grades from 11 years ago. The school that I earned those grades at won't let me retroactively change with extensive medical documentation. I do have over 270 credit hours bringing up my GPA from a 1.6 to a 3.08 . I taught organic Chemistry seminar 2 quarters to undergrads and was technically a school employee even though I am also an undergrad. Without getting too specific, I am from a minority group that is highly underrepresented. My LOR's were good-great as I had good relationships received multiple A's from my LOR writers. My interview video wasn't very good, but they said it won't hurt only help. I didn't blow it though and practiced for hours prior to filming it. It was just awkward and felt fumbled. Honestly I was pretty surprised that I was rejected outright given how high the MSN acceptance rate is. I was waitlisted at University of Washington, accepted Hopkins , and accepted MCPHS. I'm still waiting to hear back on 7 others. Penn, Duke, and Hopkins were my top 3 and I got into one so I can't complain. I want to move onto a DNP/PHD program after my RN, so I can do research and work at clinic part time. Maybe teach. I wrote about that in the appropriate essay question. If I had to guess it would be that one of my essays was a little too "provocative" for an IVY League school, although I really don't think I crossed any boundaries and was professional. I have neck tattoos that I can cover up with a turtleneck type shirt but they were somewhat visible in my interview suit. All of that combined with my lower overall GPA from 11 years ago...maybe? Maybe I'm a little too "west coast" for them? Maybe they wanted future DNPs? Maybe someone was hungry when they read my application? Who knows. I have talked to several people who sit on admission boards for post-doc programs and they've said that if you gave them the same pool of candidates multiple times, probably 25% would be different each time. I wouldn't compare though. I have some unique circumstances although I feel like I redeemed myself. Penn is a great school and I wish I got in, but I'm happy with how things have turned out so far. I plan on applying to either their PHD or DNP program in the future.

Same here. I just got my acceptance this morning. From what I have read in the past threads, the acceptances seem to go out over about 10 days. Then the waitlist and denials go out at the sametime. The good news if you're waitlisted is that this program is 2x-3x bigger than most incoming classes and it's expensive, so don't be too discouraged if you're on that list.

Still waiting here. No news yet.

I was rejected but it was posted in my portal. Maybe people who are accepted/waitlisted will get acceptance posted to their portal a little bit later.

Decision updated in portal

Hopefully that includes the BSN-MSN cohort?

Ya, I have seen that. Sometimes they are right but not always. I haven't seen anything confirming that number on their website or in their webinars. But the one you linked does specify entry MSN so I would tend to believe it more.

Are you sure that’s for direct MSN and not RN-MSN?

They responded to my comment about sending in updated transcripts and asked me to email them. I imagine over the break they got backed up and no one was working.

I think about 10% but I could be mixing that number up with Columbia.

I got into one and was waitlisted at University of Washington with around 15 W's. Most of them were for retroactive medical withdrawal though. I have a few in the past 4 years, two of which I had during quarters where I only took 6 units. No idea how much this actually affects my application, but I don't think nursing schools look at W's the same way medical schools do. W's can be used to identify a certain pattern of behavior in a certain type of student. There are dozens of reasons people take W's. So my personal opinion is that yes, they can affect your application, but only in certain circumstances. The only exception to this that I know of are CSU schools. Some of them count W's against you and you can't even apply because they will only take your first grade. So, if your first grade is a W, tough S.

Nothing yet. I'm guessing in the next week or two we will know.