Requirements and restrictions School of Nursing
In addition to submitting a complete application for admission, freshman applicants to the School of Nursing should also review the following information regarding special application requirements and admission restrictions.
Pre-Professional Nursing
Entering freshmen must initially apply to and be accepted for admission as pre-nursing majors. Once enrolled as pre-nursing majors, students must complete a series of prerequisite courses before applying for admission to the School of Nursing and enrolling in professional nursing courses.
When students apply for admission to the Nursing major as college sophomores, their applications are evaluated based on overall performance, with particular focus on science courses and evidence of commitment to the profession.
Restricted Program: Pre-Nursing
Because admission to pre-nursing is so competitive, automatic admission for eligible Texas applicants is restricted to the most qualified applicants.
Admitting Students to Restricted Majors
The following information relates to the admissions process that will be used when admission decisions are made for applicants to summer/fall 2010 and spring 2011:
- Top 10% Texas graduates are admitted to pre-nursing based on their relative class rank (beginning with the top 1%, top 2%, top 3%, etc.) until all available spaces for automatic admission are filled. (No more than 75% of the available spaces are filled through automatic admissions.)
- If 75% of the available pre-nursing spaces are filled before all top 10% applicants are admitted, the remaining top 10% graduates compete with all other applicants for any remaining spaces. Admission decisions about these remaining spaces are based on individual review.
- Top 10% graduates who are not admitted to the major of their choice are considered for their second-choice major. All top 10% Texas high school graduates who meet UT Austin’s application requirements are admitted to the University, although they may not be admitted to their requested major(s).
Details about how the admissions process will work for applicants to summer/fall 2011 and spring 2012 will be available later this fall.
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