Admissions at UVA School of Nursing

May update

2009-05-03T11:29:00.002-04:00

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

2009-04-07T11:03:00.002-04:00

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

2009-02-08T12:57:00.003-05:00

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

2009-01-15T21:38:00.003-05:00

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:

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

Happy New Year

2009-01-05T20:47:00.003-05:00

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.

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

December 2008

2008-12-17T17:04:00.002-05:00

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

2008-06-06T11:15:00.003-04:00

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

CNL decisions

2008-03-14T13:14:00.001-04:00

The admissions for the CNL program for Fall 2008 are scheduled to be mailed on Tuesday, March 18.

The decisions for the first-year undergraduate class will be mailed by the end of the month.

March 2008 update

2008-03-02T12:11:00.002-05:00

We are nearing the end of review of our First Year BSN and Second Degree CNL applications (decisions will be mailed by the end of March for these programs). We will soon be starting to review the BSN Transfer, RN-BSN, and DNP applications with hopes of mailing our decisions by May 1. Review of MSN and Post-Masters applications are reviewed on a rolling admissions basis, but all materials are to be submitted by April 1.

Updated application tallies:
First Year BSN = 404 applications received
BSN Transfer (deadline was 3/1, so too early to tell the number)
CNL (Second Degree) = 113 applications received
MSN applictations : 15 new applications received in past month (53 total)
Post-MSN: 3 new application received in past month (16 total)

PhD: 32 applications received (6 offers made)
DNP: 62 applications received

February Update

2008-02-02T10:59:00.000-05:00

We are in the midst of reviewing applications for the entering First Year and Clinical Nurse Leader classes now, but I wanted to give you an update on applications received.

First-Year (class of 2012) = 390+ applications received
RN-BSN = 9 new applications and 19 deferred applications for Fall 2008
Clinical Nurse Leader = 111 applications received
MSN = 38 applications received and 15 offers made
Post-Masters = 13 applications received and 7 offers made
PhD = 28 applications received and 4 offers made
DNP = 15 applications received

January 2008 update

2008-01-03T09:30:00.000-05:00

Happy 2008 everybody!

It's that time for another monthly update

RN-BSN applications for Fall 2008 19 applications for Spring 2008 deferred; 5 new applications

CNL applications: 28 received
DNP applications: 14 received
PhD applications: 6 received, 1 offer made
MSN applications: 29 received; 13 offers made
Post-MSN applications: 8 received; 6 offers made

December update

2007-12-10T08:53:00.000-05:00

It is time for our monthly update of admissions applications received.

For Spring 2008:
18 students accepted for MSN and Post-Master's programs

For Fall 2008:
PhD: 5 applications received, 1 accepted
DNP: 12 applications received
CNL: 13 applications received
MSN & Post-Masters: 36 applications received, 16 offers made

November 1st update

2007-10-31T13:06:00.000-04:00

It's time again for the monthly update of applications that have been received:

MSN applications (for those with a BSN):

applications for Spring 2008: 24 applications pending, 8 accepted
applications for Fall 2008: 7 applications pending, 7 accepted

Clinical Nurse Leader MSN: 10 applications received for Fall 2008
Doctor of Nursing Practice: 8 applications for Fall 2008
PhD in Nursing: 3 applications for Fall 2008 (1 accepted)
RN-to-BSN applications: 20 received for Spring 2008

September 2007 update

2007-09-04T08:16:00.000-04:00

I'll be providing monthly updates on the graduate admissions 'scene' here at the School of Nursing. As of September 1, we had receieved the following:

22 MSN applications for Spring 2008 (6 offers of admissions made so far)
2 RN-BSN applications for Spring 2008
12 MSN applications for Fall 2008 (7 offers of admissions made so far)
2 CNL applications for Fall 2008
5 DNP applications for Fall 2008

Rolling Admissions for MSN programs

2007-07-16T08:18:00.000-04:00

We offer rolling admissions for most of our MSN and Post-Master's programs (with the only exception being the Clinical Nurse Leader program). You can access and submit the online admissions application at any time at http://www.applyweb.com/apply/uvan/menu.html. We have already received (and acted upon) applications for Spring and Fall 2008. As soon as we receive your application and the supporting materials (recommendations, GRE scores, transcripts, resume, etc), we will forward it to the Admissions Committee for review.

Welcome to our Admissions Blog

2007-07-10T16:51:00.000-04:00

The two Assistant Deans for Student Services (Theresa Carroll and Clay Hysell) will be maintaining this blog to discuss the admissions processes to the undergraduate and graduate admissions programs at the University of Virginia School of Nursing.