Veteran w/BS-->BSN

wildnursebrendan · Dec 20, 2017

I haven't done a ton of research on ADN programs but I had a bachelors in psych and am about to start an accelerated BSN (2nd bachelors program). The one thing I would advise is if you can badger a program into telling you whether they have a hard cut-off for cumulative GPAs. I barely showed up for my AA and graduated with a 2.4, but then got a bunch of 3.6-4.0 science prereqs after that, and graduated with a 3.65 for my psych undergrad. I applied to a few different school and got rejected. They refused to tell me why, "due to the large number of applicants." Finally I got any email back from OHSU saying I could request a phone call from an advisor to tell me why I didn't get it. They told me that all my classes combined to give me a 3.1 cumulative and they had a hard cut off of 3.3.

I'm willing to bet those other schools had similar tendencies, but they all either wouldn't respond, or said "our stated minimum GPAs can be found on our websites."

So if you can spend a second trying to calculate your cumulative GPA from every single college level class you've taken, you might find out it just isn't high enough. I ended up getting into a program that's only about 5 years old, and was probably not as highly sought-after as the other ones I was applying to. Good luck, it's a cut-throat game. When nursing professors make less than half of the average staff nurse, no one wants to do it, so there just aren't as many programs as there should be probably.