University of Victoria (UVic) Nurse Practitioner Masters Program - Fall 2025

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Members are discussing their application statuses for a program, with some receiving acceptance emails, others still waiting for updates, and some being waitlisted or rejected. There is also talk about creating a Facebook group for those who have been accepted and sharing tips on improving applications for future cycles.

Hi NP hopefuls! Starting a thread for those applying to the UVic NP Program for fall 2025. I am an RN who graduated from U of C in 2020 and have been working in cardiology in Calgary since.

Specializes in pediatric critical care, PAR, community health.

Bad news for me. I'm actually quite surprised. I have a very high GPA, years of Ped's ICU, LDR, PAR, community nursing and built a successful business. I also have 3 post bacculaureate specialites through BCIT and BCCDC. Does anyone know how they come to their decisions? 

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Maybe by the end of the week we'll find out? Wondering those who have been on the waitlist previously, what spot were you at and didn't get in? 

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Meadow said:

Bad news for me. I'm actually quite surprised. I have a very high GPA, years of Ped's ICU, LDR, PAR, community nursing and built a successful business. I also have 3 post bacculaureate specialites through BCIT and BCCDC. Does anyone know how they come to their decisions? 

did you get a not accepted update? or still under review?

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Specializes in pediatric critical care, PAR, community health.

still under review

 

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Specializes in LTC, palliative care,adult-senior care,leadership.

Did they say when the statuses will be updated until(time)? 

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Congrats to everyone that got "recommended by the department." My portal still says "under review by the department" BAHHH trying to stay positive. Thanks for all the updates. 

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Specializes in ER, rural.
EK2 said:

Did they say when the statuses will be updated until(time)? 

She said this week everyone should have their updates. 

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Specializes in Perinatal Registered Nurse.
Meadow said:

Bad news for me. I'm actually quite surprised. I have a very high GPA, years of Ped's ICU, LDR, PAR, community nursing and built a successful business. I also have 3 post bacculaureate specialites through BCIT and BCCDC. Does anyone know how they come to their decisions? 

I'm so sorry.. I really hope they provide rationales for their decisions. TRU didn't for me last year and it still bothers me! 

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Specializes in pediatric critical care, PAR, community health.
NurseAndy13 said:

I'm so sorry.. I really hope they provide rationales for their decisions. TRU didn't for me last year and it still bothers me! 

Thanks. It's definitely frustrating. Did you get a rational from TRU?

 

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Specializes in ER, rural.
Meadow said:

Bad news for me. I'm actually quite surprised. I have a very high GPA, years of Ped's ICU, LDR, PAR, community nursing and built a successful business. I also have 3 post bacculaureate specialites through BCIT and BCCDC. Does anyone know how they come to their decisions? 

Wow I am surprised you didn't get in either based on that. I see baby nurses of 2-5 years getting in and it always surprises me. 

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Specializes in pediatric critical care, PAR, community health.
ERNurseHailey said:

Wow I am surprised you didn't get in either based on that. I see baby nurses of 2-5 years getting in and it always surprises me. 

The only thing I can think is there are looking for younger nurses (I'm 44) or they don't like that I built a business which was in private healthcare (covid testing from film industry). But seriously! I have so much experience and had doctors and 60 RN's in my company. I'm just so curious what they are looking for if it's not based on GPA and experience. 

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Specializes in Perinatal Registered Nurse.
Meadow said:

Thanks. It's definitely frustrating. Did you get a rational from TRU?

 

Not really. I'm in their MN right now so I called the Dean and squeezed it out of her that it may have been my undergrad GPA. However, they didn't take into consideration the difference between the school' standard where I went to in the states vs Canadian GPA's (A- = 90-93%). If I did school here, I would have had a 4.0 🤦‍♀️ 

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