University of Calgary, January 2021

[JReid26]

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.

[pacha]

1 hour ago, Madison Powls said:

Got accepted today to the degree holder route with a 4.0, applied on July 1

woah 4.0!! that's amazing!! when did you have all your documents submitted by? just curious

[Student1999]

On 8/3/2020 at 8:13 PM, jkredd said:

Hey, I saw on the university of calgary reddit someone got in with a 3.4 for Winter I'm not exactly sure which intake, but I know last Winter on the old allnurses page individuals got in with a 3.5! I think there are more seats for degree holders so the GPA usually goes lower than transfers! 

any change of program (internal u of calgary) students here? 

[jkredd]

1 hour ago, Student1999 said:

any change of program (internal u of calgary) students here? 

yes! just submit my transcript was waiting for my grades at au to be finalized! wbu? 

[Student1999]

13 minutes ago, jkredd said:

yes! just submit my transcript was waiting for my grades at au to be finalized! wbu? 

wait so you are a currently u of c student or...? not following you mentioned transcript

 

yeah I am a current u of c student doing the change of program. I wonder how many seats they have this year. usually the have about 20-25. wondering if COVID or the UCP impacted this

[jkredd]

2 hours ago, Student1999 said:

wait so you are a currently u of c student or...? not following you mentioned transcript

 

yeah I am a current u of c student doing the change of program. I wonder how many seats they have this year. usually the have about 20-25. wondering if COVID or the UCP impacted this

Hey! I am a UofC student applying through the transfer route, haha sorry for the misunderstanding! I really hope COVID does not have a major impact its already so competitive. Don't understand why they don't add more seats, nursing is always in demand 

[Student1999]

2 minutes ago, jkredd said:

Hey! I am a UofC student applying through the transfer route, haha sorry for the misunderstanding! I really hope COVID does not have a major impact its already so competitive. Don't understand why they don't add more seats, nursing is always in demand 

I hope COVID works in our favour and discourages people in accepting their offers and hopefully not a lot of people applied. since its this early and people with 3.7 are being accepted im very optimistic. usually in mid/end September 3.7's get accepted but I saw someone with 3.71 get accepted. I think the application pool is lower and also maybe with the COVID pandemic more seats will open because of even more demand since the UCP was supposed to cut nursing jobs but COVID kinda stopped it. 

[jkredd]

10 minutes ago, Student1999 said:

I hope COVID works in our favour and discourages people in accepting their offers and hopefully not a lot of people applied. since its this early and people with 3.7 are being accepted im very optimistic. usually in mid/end September 3.7's get accepted but I saw someone with 3.71 get accepted. I think the application pool is lower and also maybe with the COVID pandemic more seats will open because of even more demand since the UCP was supposed to cut nursing jobs but COVID kinda stopped it. 

Ah I am so nervous, waiting to find out is so stressful! people with 3.7 got into fall and I think last year the cutoff for fall was 3.8 so that's also encouraging! 

[Student1999]

2 minutes ago, jkredd said:

Ah I am so nervous, waiting to find out is so stressful! people with 3.7 got into fall and I think last year the cutoff for fall was 3.8 so that's also encouraging! 

yeah they usually start by admitting 3.8's then work down the list. surprised they're at 3.71 this early. anyways lets pray and hope for the best!! 

[jkredd]

Just now, Student1999 said:

yeah they usually start by admitting 3.8's then work down the list. surprised they're at 3.71 this early. anyways lets pray and hope for the best!! 

Hope we both get in! we got this! 

[stressedstudent]

On 9/1/2020 at 3:34 PM, Madison Powls said:

Got accepted today to the degree holder route with a 4.0, applied on July 1

Congratulations!! That’s insane to apply a 4.0

[Yellowsoft]

12 hours ago, Student1999 said:

I hope COVID works in our favour and discourages people in accepting their offers and hopefully not a lot of people applied. since its this early and people with 3.7 are being accepted im very optimistic. usually in mid/end September 3.7's get accepted but I saw someone with 3.71 get accepted. I think the application pool is lower and also maybe with the COVID pandemic more seats will open because of even more demand since the UCP was supposed to cut nursing jobs but COVID kinda stopped it. 

I am also a change of program applicant!

And you know of someone with a 3.71 get accepted already for the transfer-route?Because currently I have a 3.71!! The wait is always so stressful.

One of the admissions officers also told me that they usually don't start evaluating and processing change of programs until October! 

 

 

[Chloe_all]

Congratulations everyone who have a success to enter the program!! I am still working on finishing some pre requisite courses. 
I am wondering how everyone knows their GPA? I mean I know those 5 pre requisite courses individually and my previous post secondary one ( mine has no transferable courses so they said they will take the cumulative GPA) then how can you estimate your overall GPA? Just combine all and divide by the number of courses? 
 

also, when we send our transcript, u of c will look at the letter grading (a,b,c...) or they will just see point I achieved (like 4.0,3.7...) 
 

Have a good one!