chascal

thanks to all of you for your candid and very helpful feedback. she has already talked to her advisor he was not a lot of help. he just sugested that she needed to change her major which is not what she wants to do. i think my next move will be to help her pull all the information together and to schedule a meeting with the dean of nursing and to ask very pointed question so she can get a very clear explanation as to what her options are at this point. again thank you for your feedback and information. i would recommend this site to anyone who is thinking of going into the nursing field.

My Daughter has started the nursing curriculum at the University of South Carolina Columbia. She is into here sophomore year and has come up against this upper division issue. The university has a posted minimum GPA of 2.77 to be considered for the upper division. She has a 3.0 right now and the university has artificially raised the GPA requirement to 3.44 and now she doesn't meet the requirements to get into upper division. The university says because of the economy and budget cuts it can not accept as many students into the upper division so raising the GPA requirements is a way to lower the number of students in upper division. So now my daughter thinks she has wasted 2 years of college to get to this point and now is told she can not advance in the program. At this point she does not know what to do and is thinking that the only option is to change her major to something else. She has been working very hard this semester and her grades are better than most of the students that did get in. Any suggestions as to a path forward would be greatly appreciated as she would like to continue her course in the nursing program. Thanks Concerned Dad