What's your school's acceptance rate?

[ImmerStudent]

I see a lot of mentions of nursing school entering classes of 40-50 students, selected from 400 applications, of which about 25 students eventually graduate. These numbers appear so often that I'm wondering if they are an urban myth?

My public community college ADN program claims 400 applicants every year, and accepted 49 this year. What about yours?? And what kind of school is it? Public or private? BSN or ADN?

Also, how many schools did you apply to? How many acceptances did you get?

[RhodyGirl, RN]

I'm in a BSN program. Admission is based solely on cumulative GPA and your science/prereq grades....no waitlist, no entrance exam, etc.

A minimum of 2.7 GPA is required to apply, but I don't know anyone who has gotten in with under a 3.0

My school accepts students twice per year: 90 in the fall and about 50 in the spring.

For this upcoming fall, I heard there were over 200 applicants, though I would venture to say the number was probably far beyond that.

Last year's NCLEX was a 90% pass rate.

I was admitted to the program with a 3.3 GPA, and I have all of my prerequisites, corequisites and all but 2 geneds finished.

[tiggerdagibit]

I'm in the ADN program at my local community college. I don't know how many applicants my school has, but they accept 72 students in the fall and 72 in the spring based on GPA points for all pre-req classes and the TEAS test. We have lost some students in the previous semesters, but have also gained some transfer students and a few that have failed from the class ahead of us, so we still have a pretty full class.

I only applied to this school and was accepted as soon as I finished all my pre-reqs.

[WayneStateKatie]

i'm in a BSN program at a state university that admits based on GPA in pre-reqs and has a new tier system (you're in a top tier for all prereqs at the university, second for all science prereqs done at the university, third tier for taking them anywhere w no repeats and 3.0+ GPA, fourth tier for all others / course repeaters ranked by GPA)

The class previous to mine had 1600 applicants but of those only something like 129 had complete applications. That means they had all the prereqs done, documentation submitted by the deadline etc. The fall 2007 class admitted 88 out of 129 complete applicants.

This year due to budget constraints I believe only 48 of us were accepted. I don't know how many complete apps they had this year. There were a lot of bummed students because they admitted so many fewer this year. Lots of griping about "if I'd applied last year I would have gotten in..." from some of my buddies that didn't make the cut. And some very qualified applicants with 3.7+ GPAs were turned away:no:

It's the only school I applied to and I"m just so glad I got in on my first try :)

[shrimpchips, LPN]

we take about 160 out of ~400 applicants...the rest are either alternates or rejected.

[Asherah, BSN, RN]

JHU reportedly receives 1000+ applications, 130-150 students are accepted each Summer & Fall (Accelerated and Traditional BSN). I applied to three schools (Two private schools for BSN, one school for ADN as a backup), and was accepted to two.

[anewday]

Not sure of the acceptance rate of my school,but it is VERY competitive...I am sure they get hundreds of petitioners...they only accept about 60 students. I'm very grateful I finally made it in

[Laketown3450]

Congrats to everyone who got in! However, a lot of people apply to school who have not completed all the pre-reqs, etc. They would not be accepted. I don't know why they do that- maybe just to see if they could get in anyway? A very well-respected school in my area would get 300 apps for 30 spots, and many of the applicants were not finished with their pre-reqs.

[Jules A, MSN]

Yeah, mine takes about 10% of the applicants each year.

[NursesRock!!]

I started last Aug. I'm going into my 3rd semester of 4. We had around 400 applicants, 50 were accepted. Of those 50, after 2 semesters we have about 30 left. Because of the high application rate we were encouraged to apply for as many of the "health" programs as possible, so we'd have other options. I only applied to the RN ADn program. OWC is a public 4 yr. college in Northwestern Florida.

[LMRN10]

i see a lot of mentions of nursing school entering classes of 40-50 students, selected from 400 applications, of which about 25 students eventually graduate. these numbers appear so often that i'm wondering if they are an urban myth?

my public community college adn program claims 400 applicants every year, and accepted 49 this year. what about yours?? and what kind of school is it? public or private? bsn or adn?

also, how many schools did you apply to? how many acceptances did you get?

i believe my school receives over 600 apps, but only about 300 are valid apps (in-district and have all the paperwork in on time).

out of those, only 60 are accepted. but i do have to say i was disappointed to see that we actually only started with about 54 of the slots filled. i wasn't happy about that because there are 6 people who were sooooo close and didn't get accepted to the program, but could have been.

anyhoo, my school is a public school, community college, so it is adn. i only applied to this program because it was the only one that worked for me (night classes, location, that sort of thing.)