University of Calgary, January 2021

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Hey everyone! I am planning to apply to the degree holder route for nursing at the University of Calgary for January 2021. I found this site by reading through the University of Calgary, January 2020 forum and thought it would be good to start one for this next years in take.

I am currently finishing my English prerequisite and my anatomy and physiology course at Athabasca. Last year it looked like the GPA cut off was a 3.6 and that most people over a 3.7 got accepted.

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Hey, just wondering if u know how the GPA scale of Athabasca differs to UofC, like say an 86 is an A at Athabasca, would it still translate over to UofC as an A or will it change to an A- due to the difference in the grading scale?

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4 hours ago, jkredd said:

Hey, just wondering if u know how the GPA scale of Athabasca differs to UofC, like say an 86 is an A at Athabasca, would it still translate over to UofC as an A or will it change to an A- due to the difference in the grading scale?

https://gradecalc.info/ca/ab/ucalgary/gpa_calc.pl

Just found this on Google. Looks like it would be the same as Athabasca. Do you know what GPA you are going to approx be applying with?

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Hey, I'm working on my Athabasca course RN, but I hope to apply within a 3.6-3.7 wbu?

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Me too! I just started the Athabasca course. I currently have a 3.7 so depends how I do on this and the English course I am in.

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Does your undergrad GPA matter? My undergrad GPA was 3.4 so nowhere near a 3.7 unfortunately. Worth applying still?

I am also about to be done with my A&P courses too. Should be done before the end of the month. I wish there were other second entry nursing programs in Canada that started in Jan

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They look at your last 15 credits plus an English, stats, A&P, and arts course. So your overall GPA doesn't really matter its just the last two terms plus those courses essentially. I am not sure about if you have a graduate degree. From the other programs I've looked at they look at your first undergrad degree. Maybe worth emailing them!

I wish there was too! Someone mentioned to me maybe Lethbridge started in Jan? But not sure.

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7 minutes ago, JReid26 said:

They look at your last 15 credits plus an English, stats, A&P, and arts course. So your overall GPA doesn't really matter its just the last two terms plus those courses essentially. I am not sure about if you have a graduate degree. From the other programs I've looked at they look at your first undergrad degree. Maybe worth emailing them!

I wish there was too! Someone mentioned to me maybe Lethbridge started in Jan? But not sure.

Thank you!!

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Hey everyone, and Happy Canada Day! I applied this morning since my prereqs were completed last semester, but does anyone know how long a response might take? I'm hoping to get in this January and not have to wait until next fall to finally start nursing school...

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I wonder how COVID will affect admissions for nursing students who are transfers as well as degree holders. Degree holder routes are more competitive. There are usually 25 seats reserved for university of calgary students transfers. With COVID and many students not knowing if they will be in Canada or even in the mind state to do school online, I am assuming many students will push their admissions to next fall.

Has someone contacted admissions office to follow up on how COVID will impact seats?

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On 7/11/2020 at 2:19 PM, Student1999 said:

I wonder how COVID will affect admissions for nursing students who are transfers as well as degree holders. Degree holder routes are more competitive. There are usually 25 seats reserved for university of calgary students transfers. With COVID and many students not knowing if they will be in Canada or even in the mind state to do school online, I am assuming many students will push their admissions to next fall.

Has someone contacted admissions office to follow up on how COVID will impact seats?

I heard a lot of people saying that the GPA to get in will be way higher with everything going online with COVID. Do you really think people will push their admissions?

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14 minutes ago, jkredd said:

I heard a lot of people saying that the GPA to get in will be way higher with everything going online with COVID. Do you really think people will push their admissions?

I don't really know why it would be higher? I know at other schools the GPA to be accepted into programs in actually lower because there is less students applying internationally and from out of province so it's less competitive now. Not sure about nursing though.

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