What's your school's acceptance rate?

LoveMyBugs, BSN, CNA, RN · Jun 28, 2008

my school stated that they had 1099 qualified entries, they took 100 students and had 25 alternates. This is a community collge, and most of the schools in my area are about the same around 1000 apllicants for around 40-100 slots.

kakykeke · Jun 28, 2008

I dont know about this year... but last year.. there were 90 openings (70 for ADN and 20 LPN) there are many more that apply.. the waiting period is usually 1 yr but its all based on academics NOT lottery. I only applied to college Im going to now... it was the closest and best program around. I was willing to wait but I was able to get in after all my pre reqs were done.

SweetNSassyRN2B · Jun 29, 2008

My school is an ADN program through a local hospital. They said they had over 900 applicants, and accepted roughly 150 students for this coming fall. This program, amazingly, had no waiting list. I do not know how many alternates though.

P.S. I can't wait to start!!

melnq79 · Jun 29, 2008

hi, well im actually from australia studing a bacholar's degree in nursing at james cook university. our system is completely diffrent to the one in the states my partner wanted me to transfer myself internationally over there as he lives in Idaho. but we ended up make the decsion for me to stay and he come to me. my year at the begging had over 300 students that's full time, part time, and external students. alot have now changed to other courses and others have completely droped out.

i chose three uni's to attened and i got my first one which is in my home town. i love it but i dont. i thin by the end of the year and i have finised my 1st yr and my partner is finally here in Aus i think it will get better.

eljamstudent · Jun 29, 2008

I am not actually sure about the acceptance rate at my school but it has 70 spots for ADN two classes of 35 each. I talked to a graduated student recently and according to her, out of 33 only 7 graduated.But I WILL be one of them in 2010, lol. :up:

kcochrane · Jun 29, 2008

I'm not sure about our acceptance rate at my school either. I do know they only have 99 seats for new RN students. It is all based on the grade you get in the most important prereqs (i.e. A&P, Micro, etc.). You really have no chance of getting in if you haven't finished those prereqs with a least a C. Rumor is that it is at least a year wait to get in.

LPNs have a little easier time getting in. If you have your prereqs done and have a good GPA, you usually get in the next semester.

Freedom42 · Jun 29, 2008

Depending on what kind of program you're in, it's not the acceptance rate that matters. It's the enrollment rate; in other words, the number of people who accept the offer of admission.

I am in an accelerated BSN program at a public university; as such, there is no waiting list, and applicants are admitted each year strictly on a competitive basis. Faculty said there were 360 qualified applicants for 70 seats in the two cohorts currently running. I don't know how many qualified applicants were offered seats, and I don't know how many total applicants, including those deemed unqualified, that there were. Unqualified applicants are those who don't have prior degrees, have not completed sufficient pre-reqs, or met other conditions of acceptance. The graduation rate is over 85 percent; the NCLEX pass rate is around 90 percent.

Now if you asked the community college or the hospital school near me what their rates were, they would tell you that they receive over 1,000 applications each year for similarly small cohorts. But the community college has only a high school diploma and the NET for admission standards; anyone is automatically put on a waiting list, and actual enrollment can take up to four years. The hospital school receives a similar number of applicants but requires a high school diploma, an admission test and interview.

As for the graduation rate, neither of those schools sees more than 50 percent of its students finish. (Perhaps if they had higher admission standards, they'd weed out those unlikely to succeed.) But, since they dismiss students unlikely to pass the NCLEX before graduation, guess what? They tout NCLEX pass rates of nearly 100 percent.

So, dear OP, you are right to question the numbers. They're just one of many political issues you'll come to question as you make your way through nursing school.

missjennmb · Jun 29, 2008

My school has no wait list, but we take the "PAX" entrance test, and they had a LOT of trouble filling the seats just to get the class started in the Fall. In the first testing, out of 20 who tested, only ONE passed the test w/ an 80% or better. In the second testing (mine) I think 3 or 4 out of 20 passed. They've been testing all year now since January, once a month just to get the 15-20 seats filled that they've slotted.

For the 2007 graduates (first year of our school's LPN program) only 7 of 15 graduated, but all 7 passed their NCLEX)

FionaSophia · Jun 29, 2008

about 400 people apply for 25 spots based on gpa only(six classes factored). COMPETITIVE!!

mcs1505 · Jun 29, 2008

My school's ABSN program told us during orientation that for every one of us there, they turned away three people. We have 60 people in our class. *shrugs* Before that I'd been told (by the school) that that they had 30 spots and 400 people applied each year. I tend to go with the more conservative numbers.

coolpeach · Jun 29, 2008

My school is a community college which has an ADN program. They have between 250 to 300 applicants a semester, and admit 40. It is not a lottery system, and they do not have a wait list. It is based on points from classes taken, hesi entrance, and GPA. They have 100% pass rate on NCLEX, and hardly anyone is kicked out or leaves the program or does not graduate. It is supposedly a really great school that supports the students to help them succeed once in the program its just hard to get into. I can't wait to start AUG 25, 2008. :monkeydance: