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The reason I mentioned this is because I have always believed that the school one graduated from influences their chances of employment. Who is more likely to get hired: a graduate from Harvard University or one from the University of Phoenix? I don't mean to sound like a snob, but I was hoping graduating from a well known and highly ranked university will increase my chances of landing a decent nursing job. I do believe it will be wiser for me to stay in NC at least until I get some experience, but I need to be in New York within a year for personal/family reasons.

I am moving to New york city (Manhattan) once I graduate from nursing school in the spring, but I am worried about my chances of getting a job. I'm graduating with my BSN from University of NC chapel hill (one of the top nursing programs in the country) but my GPA will be pretty low (about a 2.7). Do hospitals look at GPA when hiring nurses? How difficult will it be for someone like me to find an RN job at a decent nyc hospital with good pay (over 65k)?

Foxyhill, what were the schools that you looked into? Are they good/reputable nursing schools?? Mercedes, how would I go about doing that? Can I just sign up to take courses at any university and have that count as my GPA? And also, what do you mean by last 60 hours? Is that a credit system some schools use?

I accidentally posted this in the wrong section (sorry, I'm new here), so I'm copying and pasting my question: I'm currently attending a very good undergraduate nursing school. I am a senior and I have one more semester left after this one. I want to go to a good graduate school to be a nurse practitioner but I am afraid I wont be able to because of my low GPA. I expect to graduate with a 2.8 GPA. My science classes are also the ones I received the lowest grades in. My grades have slowly been improving (I had less than a 2.0 at the end of freshman year and was placed on probation. Sophomore year I barely ended with a 2.4, I finished junior year with a 2.5 and I expect to bring up my grade to a 2.6 after this semester). I know that graduate schools look at the whole package, but all of the schools I have looked at require a 3.0 minimum. Even if I get a 4.0 next sememester, I will end up graduating with no more than a 2.9. Is there any chance of getting into a good Nurse Practitioner program? I know I should take the GRE, but realistically, I shouldn't expect to get an AMAZING score. Does anyone have any advice on how to increase my GPA and increase my chances of getting into a good nursing graduate school? Being a nurse practitioner has always been my dream and I would have to see it crushed because of my immaturity in the first couple of years of college.