What states accepting nursing students?

CyclicalEvents · Aug 26, 2009

Any school in the south will likely not have a waitlist.

WldChrry · Aug 26, 2009

I currently live in Mississippi, and the school that I am looking into doesn't do the wait list thing anymore. They go off of your test scores. This could be good or bad depending on your testing abilities.

mydee · Aug 26, 2009

Try the state of PA they have a ton of nursing programs with no waitting list

baldee · Aug 26, 2009

I would think up in the Northern States near the big cities, with all the people getting cut up and shot at 24/7 :yeah:

springing · Aug 27, 2009

I have emailed each and every single community college in Michigan - and most of the universities - asking about their admissions criteria. If you want some info send me a PM. I know of some places you could probably get into all throughout the state.

miteacher, ADN, MSN · Nov 24, 2009

What colleges and programs are easiest to get into in Michigan? I already have a bachelors degree, but in teaching.

thejoebear · Nov 25, 2009

TEXAS!

. I moved here from the Pacific North West due to the insane wait lists and the 10 to 1 qualified nursing school applicants that applied to every ONE open student position at a nursing school.

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. In Texas I found one school, with a decent history, that pretty much told me, "If you meet the Pre-Req's, Your in HERE!"

Since that school was in a predominantly Spanish speaking area of Texas, I did not think my English only skills was a good match for that school.

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. Literally as I was meeting with that schools staff I received an email from another nursing school I had applied to before.

The email was from the main school I dreamed of going too but figured I would never get into that school. When I first saw the

e-mail I did not even read it. I did not want to read a nursing school rejection letter while I was still in a motel room visiting this other school. The next day I decided what the hell, read the e-mail, I had already accepted the fact I would never get into the school at the top of my list of schools anyway. This e-mail said I was accepted at the nursing school I always wanted to go to! AMAZING!

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. Look at the South, PA, or parts of the country people are not so hot about living in.

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. Nursing school is a dam blur anyway, so where you live during school really DOES NOT MATTER, BECAUSE, you are going to be to busy to enjoy where you live anyway!...

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. PLUS life is cheaper in areas people are not looking to live in!

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. I decided to be done with school and have a R.N. job before I would waste years of my life on some stupid list... I will be done and employed as a R.N. YEARS before most of the people I saw waiting on those dam WAIT lists because I decided to go this route to nursing school.

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. The reality of most nursing schools is they just get you to pass the dam boards anyway....

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. Being a real R.N. is mostly learned on the floor of your first job/jobs and will take another TWO years before your not seen as a novice anyway.

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. Find schools that are NOT in popular large areas, most of the large areas have HIGH RATES OF PEOPLE trying to get in as well!

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. Nursing schools are getting more and more people trying to get into them every semester. This trend will get worse until the economy of this country changes dramatically. They can not and will not build enough new nursing schools to change this situation and it will only get WORSE every year. The first wave of baby boomer R.N.s about to hit retirement age in 5 years or so. I can only imagine the HELL that will happen to nursing schools then; You think it sucks now, wait until this happens...

I say get into a school NOW before it becomes TWICE as hard to do the same thing.. Good luck

miteacher, ADN, MSN · Nov 25, 2009

Which schools in Texas and Pennsylvania?

thejoebear · Nov 26, 2009

. Do a search for nursing schools with out waiting lists in PA. When I did I found a ton of them. PA has a VERY long history of being a nursing school state with MANY schools and they are not full!

I recommend doing a search of all community colleges with nursing programs in the state your looking at first. I would also look up the state board of Nursing to see if schools are accredited or not or on any type of probation. A nursing school will not tell you it is going down the crapper! Remember, NON-accredited schools are the biggest mistake you could make! Find out what and who does the accreditation in a state and follow their guidelines. If your school loses its accreditation while you are going there you may have just wasted years and TEN's of thousands of dollars. I would then look at your selected schools Pre-Req's and see if you are close to meeting them for the various schools. Then start your research. I find most of the larger schools will not answer general information phone calls from non-students so looking into smaller schools sometimes is actually easier. Look at the small cities that are basically unheard of. Quite often small cities have OLD nursing schools that have been around for a long time.

Houston is to large of a city I think. I found San Antonio sized about right. Austin is a bit to popular. I heard Dallas/Fort Worth might be an exception to the rule about avoid large cities. Laredo is a GREAT option if you speak Spanish, it is actually located RIGHT ON THE BORDER! Wetherford has a good school.

BAsically, just move to some place that people are not crazy about living in, get your R.N. Lic. in 2 years and then move to where you want to live as new R.N.

Trophy.Nurse · Nov 27, 2009

I would like to extend a sincere thank you to the OP for starting this thread & everyone else for their replies. This is a very informative thread. If you guys don't mind, please name schools. I am interested in eventually becoming a crna, so I have a long way to go, & I'm considering taking this route for nursing school as well. I'm from Chicago, & all. Of the Universities have ridiculous waiting lists &/ or unreasonable tuition. Costs. I'm a single woman w/ no children, therefore I'm willing to relocate to just about anywhere!

Northofnowhere · Nov 29, 2009

I can tell you that my school in Rhode Island has completely eliminated their waiting list and is now based solely on grades and your TEAS scores.

It's a community college and is only an ADN program, but has a very good track record.

I believe for the coming Spring semester they are actually having a hard time finding enough students to fill the class.

They normally only have 1 open enrollment period from February to March, but this year they have had 3.

There are so many students still working on getting their pre-reqs done that there just are not enough students ready to start Nursing 1.