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.

11 hours ago, apina said:

Hey everyone!

congrats to those who got admitted!! 
 

I applied into the degree holder route and also got the “Your GPA is below the admission average” and am waiting until the morning to call u of c to ask about my GPA! Pretty discouraged since I’ve applied 5 other times back in high school and first year (twice as a high school  student, twice as a transfer student, and once with their special admissions route by recommendation from a professor) through MRU and was rejected because I was .02 away from their competitive GPA of, I kid you not, 4.0 as an internal transfer. Has anyone, off the same waitlist, been admitted?! I’m also not even sure which of my courses transferred over since I finished my BA from UVic but also have a diploma from MRU and all the random GPA boosters I took from trying to reapply ? Lindy had a look at my unofficial transcripts and said it was a strong application and I finished off A&P and Stats with a B- in both over the Summer so I’m sure those have dragged it down a little.

 

sorry for the super down rant/post ? just super stressed!!

@apina Where you able to find out what your GPA is? I'm also on the waitlist and have been told anyone with below 3.60 is waitlisted. 

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I just wanted to know what GPA they use for admission? 

 

I have my undergraduate GPA (all humanities courses) and a different GPA for my prerequisites. My prerequisites were all taken at different schools. Are they using both GPAS? Your final two years of undergrad? I’m a little confused 

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4 minutes ago, Future.Derm.NP said:

I just wanted to know what GPA they use for admission? 

 

I have my undergraduate GPA (all humanities courses) and a different GPA for my prerequisites. My prerequisites were all taken at different schools. Are they using both GPAS? Your final two years of undergrad? I’m a little confused 

So UofC uses 10 courses in total to calculate your admission GPA not your overall GPA for a degree or program you have taken. First its the 5 prerequisite courses which could have been done recently or in your first degree or even as a separate course. Then it will your 5 newest courses you have taken, so it won't matter again if they are part of your first degree or at another school, just whichever were the 5 most recent ones you took. I hope this helps!

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5 minutes ago, Future.Derm.NP said:

I just wanted to know what GPA they use for admission? 

 

I have my undergraduate GPA (all humanities courses) and a different GPA for my prerequisites. My prerequisites were all taken at different schools. Are they using both GPAS? Your final two years of undergrad? I’m a little confused 

Feel free to email me and I can help you calculate it! [email protected]

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10 minutes ago, Future.Derm.NP said:

I just wanted to know what GPA they use for admission? 

 

I have my undergraduate GPA (all humanities courses) and a different GPA for my prerequisites. My prerequisites were all taken at different schools. Are they using both GPAS? Your final two years of undergrad? I’m a little confused 

If you have taken multiple prerequisites for nursing UofC uses the the course with the higher grade to satisfy the prerequisite requirement. So lets say you got a B in anatomy and physiology and you retook it and got an A they would take the A. Another example, if you got an A in lets say art history and a B in psychology they would take the A in art history to satisfy the arts prerequisite requirement. If you have any other questions feel free to ask! 

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4 minutes ago, Crystal6055 said:

So lets say you got a B in anatomy and physiology and you retook it and got an A they would take the A.

This is what happened to me, I took anatomy and physiology and got an B-, I retook them to boost my GPA and got an A. When I spoke to admissions to find out my GPA, they counted both my B- and A, I thought my B- was going to get replaced but they said my original anatomy and physiology falls into my last 10 classes. 

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Just now, Student000 said:

This is what happened to me, I took anatomy and physiology and got an B-, I retook them to boost my GPA and got an A. When I spoke to admissions to find out my GPA, they counted both my B- and A, I thought my B- was going to get replaced but they said my original anatomy and physiology falls into my last 10 classes. 

Ahhh I see how that happens... yeah if you retook the course right after the first time then your first attempt would still count as one of your RECENT courses because its still within the MOST recent 5 courses. But if the first time you took it was like 6-7+ courses ago then it wouldn’t have counted within the recent 5 courses to be used in your admission GPA ?

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After anxiously waiting for an update on my application, I finally got some good news!

Admitted this afternoon through the Transfer-route!! Yaaay! I'm so excited and relieved ☺

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2 hours ago, Yellowsoft said:

After anxiously waiting for an update on my application, I finally got some good news!

Admitted this afternoon through the Transfer-route!! Yaaay! I'm so excited and relieved ☺

congrats!!

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3 hours ago, Yellowsoft said:

After anxiously waiting for an update on my application, I finally got some good news!

Admitted this afternoon through the Transfer-route!! Yaaay! I'm so excited and relieved ☺

Congrats!

May I ask what is your GPA? And also are you internal transfer(current u of c student) or external student?

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11 hours ago, Student1999 said:

Congrats!

May I ask what is your GPA? And also are you internal transfer(current u of c student) or external student?

Thank you!!

I was an Internal transfer (current UofC student) and my GPA was 3.71!

12 hours ago, anonon1198 said:

congrats!!

Thank you!!

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On 9/29/2020 at 10:26 AM, Student000 said:

@apina Where you able to find out what your GPA is? I'm also on the waitlist and have been told anyone with below 3.60 is waitlisted. 

I emailed the nursing and admissions people and ---------------------- emailed back today and said it was calculated at a 3.41?? Which doesn't make sense because if they took my last however many courses, I got mostly A's, A-'s, and I think 1 B, excluding the B-'s from Stats and A&P I took this Summer. And I know that a couple of them can be replaced by some of my MRU courses, and the ones that would be replaced because you're higher are A's ? And my GPA from MRU was a 3.56ish and my UVic one, when converted to the 4.0 scale, is a 3.67ish so I would have assumed I'd be in the low to mid 3.5 range and not at a 3.41 ?

And I thought they took the ones that are considered transferable, and not the most recent ones taken? Or at least that was what Lindy had explained to me when I met with her back in February.

On 9/29/2020 at 10:00 AM, Crystal6055 said:

Also UofL also has an accelerated 2 year nursing program too and its only about 2 hours away from Calgary. 

Yeah, I've been looking in to them and into UBC but it's more of the cost of living that worries me. I'm already pretty in debt from my previous degree and lost my job due to COVID earlier this year and haven't really had any luck finding anything work wise ? U of C is just local for me so I could still live at home, ahahah

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