U of Calgary January 2014 entry Transfer Route

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Haven't seen a thread yet for the transfer route so I thought that I would start one. I was wondering if anybody has heard anything from the university or had any updates on their online profiles? This is just for any general discussion about the transfer route only. Does anyone have any idea when offers will start being made, if they haven't been made already? Do you know if they will be made by email or by letter in the mail? Hope to get some replies!!!

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I have also applied for Winter 2014, and I am also waiting to hear. I talked to the department last week, they said that they are still admitting people with a GPA of 3.5 and over, but seats are almost filled.

Your student center status will change, and they will also send out letter, but not through email.

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I called this morning and someone in admissions said that they are currently admitting at a 3.4 GPA. I was told that out of the 30 seats, they have offered all of 30. They can't guarantee that all of the people who were offered will accept a seat, but at this point in time all seats have been offered. I'd suspect that only 1-2 would reject their offer. They said that they don't expect to drop that much lower than a 3.4 for offers.

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Hiya! I also applied to the BNTR Winter 2014 route.

Here's what I know...

1) There are only 30 seats: I thought there would be more students being let in the transfer route. I guess I really should have asked first (WE ARE COMPETING FOR ONLY 30 SEATS WITH HIGHLY QUALIFIED APPLICANTS). If you look in your myuofc portal and search for the NURS 285/287/288/289 courses, you'll notice that there are 112 spaces available indicating that the degree holders and transfer students will be taking terms 3-7 together then diverging at term 8 with the degree holders graduating first.

2) The initial GPA cut off was 3.7, then lowered to a 3.5, then a 3.4

3) The cut off GPA is higher this year than previous in takes for the same term: This really shocked me because the previous GPAs were much lower. I can't find the page anymore, it was probably deleted, but it said that last year, around this time the GPAs for both the transfer and degree holder route were lowered to ~3.3-3 then ~2.8-3 at the end of the month. I guess the applicant pool this year was just much more competitive than previous years and/or more applicants with higher GPAs applied because of the supposed ''nursing shortage.''

4) They either seem to be slower at admitting people this year or those offered seats are slower at accepting or declining them. After all, those of us on hold will stay on hold until seats become open aka people responding to their offers. As stated before 30/30 seats have been offered and only degree holders have open seats left. If all the seats have been filled (accepted), then the advisor said that those of us on hold will have a ''cancelled' or ''x'' on our myuofc page. I just hope we are notified within the next week or so. I need to know if I'll have to apply to other schools and/or take a few more courses for the prerequisite courses/credits for other programs.

Anyway, we shall all find out our status soon. They let in quite a bit of students this week so I suspect we're nearing the end-phase of the admission stage. On a side note, I think I'll just wait to be accepted/denied instead of hassling the faculty. The advisors have become snappy/sassy and even rude in emails and they generally don't answer my questions in full, leave out important information or are just really ambiguous (they're probably tired of receiving the same questions from others so I can't really hold it against them). Does anyone know if you can find what ''place'' you are on the hold list? Anyone here apply last year? If so, was the admission process similar?

I was initially accepted into the 4 year program after high school but I deferred it in favour of UofA. WHOOPS.

Anyway, I am prepared to sacrifice the young of 3 lambs and bathe in blood of newborn sheep if it means getting accepted. *JUST LOWER IT 1.7 MORE POINTS*

Good luck everyone!

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^^^^ Oops! I meant .17, not 1.7 LOL

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Hello, do they really require a GPA of 3.6 out of 4? This is very high!

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Nursing programs in Calgary are intensely competitive. I applied to Mount Royal and got rejected with 3.7 (2012). I called UofC for the GPA and they told me 3.75 (Transfer) also in 2012 I was a little skeptical of this but I didn't bother applying.

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I was planing on going to calgary for their transfer route but i think i will stay in Montreal where the GPA for nursing is around 2.5. Over here, With a 3.3/4 , students usually get into medecine

Best of luck to all of you applicants

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Best of luck to all of you applicants

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