Admission stats for NP programs?

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Hi friends,

I am posting this on behalf of a good friend. He is a pediatric ED nurse looking to apply to NP programs. I am trying to help him with the process.

I'm specifically wondering if there is a central database of some sort containing admission stats for NP programs? For med school we have the MSAR, which provides a **** ton of information, including # applied, # interviewed, # accepted & matriculated, median GPA, MCAT, volunteer/work experience, and so on. This really helps line up your safety/reach schools.

Do you have any advice on locating this info for NP programs? Or, if not, at least input on how to make a reasonable list of schools to apply to?

My friend graduated with a 3.20 with a BS from an accredited RN program in New England. He has ~2 years of ED experience. He has not taken the GRE (yet).

Thanks!

 

[core0]

Hi friends,

I am posting this on behalf of a good friend. He is a pediatric ED nurse looking to apply to NP programs. I am trying to help him with the process.

I'm specifically wondering if there is a central database of some sort containing admission stats for NP programs? For med school we have the MSAR, which provides a **** ton of information, including # applied, # interviewed, # accepted & matriculated, median GPA, MCAT, volunteer/work experience, and so on. This really helps line up your safety/reach schools.

Do you have any advice on locating this info for NP programs? Or, if not, at least input on how to make a reasonable list of schools to apply to?

My friend graduated with a 3.20 with a BS from an accredited RN program in New England. He has ~2 years of ED experience. He has not taken the GRE (yet).

Thanks!

There is no such resource. Part of this is because there is no central accreditation body. There also is no central application resource.

Your friend is going to have to do a lot of legwork. Basically ask each school for that information.

 

[pamac]

Hi friends,

I am posting this on behalf of a good friend. He is a pediatric ED nurse looking to apply to NP programs. I am trying to help him with the process.

I'm specifically wondering if there is a central database of some sort containing admission stats for NP programs? For med school we have the MSAR, which provides a **** ton of information, including # applied, # interviewed, # accepted & matriculated, median GPA, MCAT, volunteer/work experience, and so on. This really helps line up your safety/reach schools.

Do you have any advice on locating this info for NP programs? Or, if not, at least input on how to make a reasonable list of schools to apply to?

My friend graduated with a 3.20 with a BS from an accredited RN program in New England. He has ~2 years of ED experience. He has not taken the GRE (yet).

Thanks!

There isn't a centralized application service for NP schools like they have for dental, med school, or PA school, (AADSAS, or things like that). Part of this is due to the variety of NP roles that are out there for NPs to specialize in that the applicant needs to commit to before they even begin school (they have to decide what kind of NP they want to be). Also, there isn't even one route to become an NP since there is direct entry vs traditional. Those kinds of factors don't lend well to a one size fits all approach to application. So its true that a lot of the leg work will be up to the individual applicant. In a way, this helps focus on applicants by cutting down on the shotgun approach to applying to school. It also means the delivery of education is variable. I could see this changing a bit with the merger of different organizations, and the paring down of various types of NP specialties that are offered. The doctorate will streamline things considerably as it becomes more of a standard offering. I think that is one big motivator for the push. But essentially with the other fields you basically have waves of applicants that are pretty much homogenous undergrads that make it simpler to point everyone in the same direction. With PA school, once the masters degree became more the norm, then that opened the door to a centralized service to cater to all the schools that were coalescing around a typical applicant. Now days, the bachelors, associate, and certificate PA programs are fading out, and the typical applicant isn't someone with extensive experience, but rather someone of the pre-dent/Pre-med mold. The homogenization you'll see for NPs will be accomplished on the back end by phasing out specialty niches in favor of more broad categories for the DNP. Less unintuitive and obscure acronyms on an NPs name tag to figure out what their job is.

 

[FCMike11]

Hi friends,

I am posting this on behalf of a good friend. He is a pediatric ED nurse looking to apply to NP programs. I am trying to help him with the process.

I'm specifically wondering if there is a central database of some sort containing admission stats for NP programs? For med school we have the MSAR, which provides a **** ton of information, including # applied, # interviewed, # accepted & matriculated, median GPA, MCAT, volunteer/work experience, and so on. This really helps line up your safety/reach schools.

Do you have any advice on locating this info for NP programs? Or, if not, at least input on how to make a reasonable list of schools to apply to?

My friend graduated with a 3.20 with a BS from an accredited RN program in New England. He has ~2 years of ED experience. He has not taken the GRE (yet).

Thanks!

Allnurses.com. would be a good start. They have forums dedicated to applying/student nps etc

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my understanding is that if you apply broadly to fnp(family np) programs with a gpa > 3.0 you will get in somewhere.
some of the other np programs like acnp (acute care) and psych np are more competitive.