Maybe its just a location thing but here in Kentucky I have never heard of waiting lists for nursing schools. At every school I looked at in KY you apply the semester before you want to go to school and you go from there. I am in an ADN program at Eastern Kentucky University and I really like it here, the teachers are awesome and the students are a good mix of young and old. We have about 8 guys out of about 100 students that started the program.