May update

BSN Transfer admissions:
The letters were mailed on Friday, and students have until May 15th to respond to the offers of admissions.

MSN & Post-Masters:
The admissions committee has been busy, and we are nearing the end of review (another 50 or so applications to review this month). After we have completed the review of all applications, we will then prioritize the Waiting List. I expect to start taking people off the Waiting List around June 1.

DNP applications:
Offers of admission were mailed out on April 20, and students have until May 15 to accept the offers.

New graduate applications:
The School of Nursing is changing the graduate application this spring, and the new application for the MSN, Post-MSN, CNL, DNP, and PHD applications will be available in June. This application will have a new look, new essays, new recommendations. We also hope that the new application will allow you to track which application items (transcripts, recommendations, CV, etc) have been received and what has not.

An April Update

This has been a very busy season at the School of Nursing, and we have received a record number of applications for many of our programs.

The Traditional BSN program received over 450 applications for an entering class of 60. Initial offers of admissions were mailed in late March, and high school seniors have until the end of April to reply. The Transfer applications (to the BSN and RN-BSN programs) are currently being reviewed, and these decisions will be mailed by May 1.

Direct Entry MSN: Clinical Nurse Leader program. We ended up receiving 124 applications, and admissions decisions for the 30-person entering class were mailed around March 20. We are waiting to see who accepts these offers.

Specialty MSN and Post-Masters programs: We received a record number of 209 applications this year (for an entering class of 60). We expect to have waiting lists in nearly all of the specialty tracks (Acute Care CNS and NP, Family NP, Pediatric NP, Psychiatric-Mental Health nursing) and will let people know as spaces become available.

Doctor of Nursing Practice: We received 40 applications this year for an entering class if 15. Decisions for this program will be mailed by May 1.

Earlt February update

We are in the midst of reading many admissions files (both graduate and undergraduate).

We have received a record number of traditionsl BSN applications (well over 400 this year), and admissions decisions for these will be mailed by April 1st. The BSN transfer and RN-BSN applications are due March 1.


The application deadline has passsed for two of the graduate programs, but there are two programs that are still accepting applications.

Direct Entry MSN (CNL): 124 applications received. Decision letters mailed around March 15.
PhD in Nursing: 18 applications received
Doctor of Nursing Practice: 10 applications received so far (deadline is March 1)
MSN & Post MSN: 76 applications received for Summer or Fall 2009.= (Deadline is April 1)

January 15 update

The application deadline for the traditional BSN program (those entering direct from high school) was January 2. Undergraduate applications at the University are up 20% this year, so we expect the total number of nursing applications to be more than 400.

Applications for the graduate programs are coming in every day now. The numbers (as of today) are as follows:

1. Masters Entry (CNL): 51 applications received
2. Masters Specialty: 57 received for spring/summer 09, 18 offered admissions
3. PhD in Nursing: 11 applications received, 2 offered admissions
4. DNP: 5 applications received

Happy New Year

Well, the traditional undergraduate admissions deadline was last Friday, and the Undergraduate Admissions office is tabulating the final total number of applications received. I hope to have this number at the next Blog posting later in January.

I wanted to take the opportunity to update the graduate applications received by January 2, 2009.

1. Master's Entry (CNL): 26 applications received
2. PhD in Nursing: 8 applications received. 2 offers of admissions made
3. Doctor of Nursing Practice: 5 applications received
4. MSN& Post-Masters applications for Summer/Fall 2009: 74 applications received, 14 offers of admission made

December 2008

As the fall semester ends, things are picking up in Admissions Land. The traditional BSN application deadline is January 2, and the Masters Entry: CNL and PhD program applications are due by February 1st.

I've done a tally of the number of applications received by today (December 17):

Masters Entry to Nursing (CNL): 18 applications received (0 offers made)
PhD in Nursing: 7 applications received (2 offers of admission made)
DNP: 4 applications received (0 offers made)
MSN: 70 applications received for Sp 09, Sum 09 or Fall 09 (21 offers of admissions made)

I intend to update this every 2 weeks through the admissions cycle.

End of Year

Undergraduate Students:
We are expecting 117 new BSN students this year (more than our target).
60 of these are first-year students
16 internal transfers
19 are external transfers
22 RN-BSN students


Graduate Students
We are expecting 135 new graduate students this year (also, more than our target):
28 CNL students (second degree students)
58 MSN students (those with BSN degrees)
23 Post-Masters students
13 PhD students
13 DNP students