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

@Meadow That is really frustrating. I don't understand either. I am in my 30s, so I consider myself an intermediate nurse (10years of experience). I had 3 amazing references, including a nursing professor at UVIC. I thought I had a solid application 🙁

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

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 🤦‍♀️ 

Interesting. When I went to Langara/Uvic for nursing, they had a different grade standard as well and it has likely changed. I was wondering if they would know to take this into consideration. But congrats on getting into the MN! Smart to apply to both programs. 

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Specializes in pediatric critical care, PAR, community health.
EK2 said:

@Meadow That is really frustrating. I don't understand either. I am in my 30s, so I consider myself an intermediate nurse (10years of experience). I had 3 amazing references, including a nursing professor at UVIC. I thought I had a solid application 🙁

Ugh. Sorry to hear that. I would think that they would have objective criteria and a process that they could share. At least this would help us to know if it is worth it to apply next year. 

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Specializes in ER, rural.
Meadow said:

Ugh. Sorry to hear that. I would think that they would have objective criteria and a process that they could share. At least this would help us to know if it is worth it to apply next year. 

I got into the Masters of Nursing at TRU which I will start in September, I plan to reapply to TRUs NP May 2025 intake as long as my grades are good in the masters program. I am worried that my undergrad GPA will continue to bite me in the butt despite very good grades since. I have my BCIT ER specialty, mandatory Stats course, remote nursing certification, all with As... 12 years nursing experience in ER, rural/remote. I had great reference and worked SO hard on my personal statement/letter of improvement.
It's hard to know exactly what they are looking for. 

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

I got into the Masters of Nursing at TRU which I will start in September, I plan to reapply to TRUs NP May 2025 intake as long as my grades are good in the masters program. I am worried that my undergrad GPA will continue to bite me in the butt despite very good grades since. I have my BCIT ER specialty, mandatory Stats course, remote nursing certification, all with As... 12 years nursing experience in ER, rural/remote. I had great reference and worked SO hard on my personal statement/letter of improvement.
It's hard to know exactly what they are looking for. 

Wow! That's super frustrating. The province needs NP's and there are obviously so many clinically strong nurses wanting to pursue this program. 

 

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

@ERNurseHailey very frustrating. 

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I wish they'd give us the declines today too. It's painful sitting around waiting for a hopeful wait list spot 

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

*sigh…* sure is painful. 

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Meadow said:

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. 

Yep, seems about right, I know far more 2-3 year nurses with little to no experience versus my 10years Emerg, and 5 years Primary Care, certified designations, graduated from BCIT with Distinction! And no preference to re-admits. 

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StormTrooper said:

Yep, seems about right, I know far more 2-3 year nurses with little to no experience versus my 10years Emerg, and 5 years Primary Care, certified designations, graduated from BCIT with Distinction! And no preference to re-admits. 

I don't understand this whole process. I was waitlisted on UBC last year and rejected this year even though I am in my MSN at UBC. When I applied to UVIC 3 years ag,o I was told my undergrad GPA was an issue- I have improved that significantly with my MSN and got more experience, yet no change. Also, no info is provided on how to improve whereas nurses 2 years out of nursing school are getting in...what are we doing wrong 

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

Yep, seems about right, I know far more 2-3 year nurses with little to no experience versus my 10years Emerg, and 5 years Primary Care, certified designations, graduated from BCIT with Distinction! And no preference to re-admits. 

Crazy! I graduated with honours as well and a Presidential Scholarship. It all seems quite odd to me... so much so that I would like to look into this further. It doesn't sit right.  I would have assumed that clinical experience would be weighted very high with an NP Program. 

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Specializes in pediatric critical care, PAR, community health.

I think I may request a Freedom of Information request to the university for anonymized data on admitted applicants. This could uncover if a bias exists, or at least raise important questions to the admission process. If they are indeed admitting based on age, this should be clearly stated on the admissions website. 

 

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