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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, 80% of Penn nursing receives significant financial aid.[/quote]

The acceptance rate is much higher for the nursing program at Penn too[/quote]

Do you mean compared to the other 3 schools of Penn, CAS, SEAS and Wharton? It likely is, though I have never seen it published. Regardless the standards for admission are very different because nursing has completely separate classes. AP chem, phyiscs, calc and other highest-level rigor high school stem are not needed at all, just as they are not needed for GTown or UVA undergrad nursing. Nursing students do not take the same chem or bio or stats that the other three take (not sure why Wharton would take chem with seas and CAS but they can and some do: there are occasional premeds in wharton). 
Penn nursing students take first year writing seminar with the students from all 4 undergrad schools, as well as 1-2 foreign language and 4-5 semester electives that can be certain non-stem courses open to all 4 undergrad schools. All of the rest, or 80% of the credits, are nursing only, half classroom and half clinicals which is predominantly shiftwork in different Penn clinics/hospitals.  Nursing undergrad does not overlap with other schools and is a very different undergraduate experience. One cannot swap out of Penn nursing into the other schools. The science courses in nursing do not and can not count for premed, though that question gets asked on reddit all the time when high schoolers erroneously think it is some back door into Penn. Of course nursing has different admission standards: so does UVA nursing and all undergrad nursing programs! It is not a program for top STEM students who are aiming for med school, research based PhD, etc. It is not designed to prepare for those career options.  That being said Penn nursing grads end up with a higher skillset and more management experience than 90% of undergrad BSN programs. It is not surprising they end up in top roles and a large percent go on to MSN, DNP, or even phD Nursing (needed for heads of academic programs at top hospitals/nursing schools around the country). 
As is said repeatedly on DCUM regarding many careers, prestige has benefits: if one wants to be at the top of the nursing careers, or do medical consulting instead, Penn and other top-5 BSN programs open all the doors. [/quote]

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