Bachelor of Science [B.S] [Nursing] From Hope College

?If possible, students should indicate their interest in nursing on the application for admission to Hope College. A secondary admission to the nursing major is required.

Application to the nursing major is generally done in the spring semester of the freshman year to begin nursing courses in the fall of the sophomore year or application can be made in the fall of the sophomore year to begin nursing courses in the spring of the sophomore year. Exceptional high school graduates are eligible for pre-acceptance into the nursing major. For further information, contact the Department of Nursing.

The nursing application includes a nursing program student admission application form and two professional references, one of which must be from a Hope College professor. Students are also required to take a standardized pre-nursing exam and complete a pre-nursing essay, both in a proctored computer setting. Students will be charged a fee for the pre-nursing exam. Consideration is given to cumulative grade point average, grade point average in prerequisite courses, ACT and SAT scores, pre-nursing exam score and the essay.

The B.S.N. degree requires 39 credits as prerequisite or corequisite courses. Additionally, there are 49 required credits in nursing. A minimum of a C (2.0) is required for the nursing courses and the prerequisite or corequisite courses, and an overall GPA of 2.5 must be achieved throughout the program to meet nursing major graduation requirements.

A student can fail or withdraw for academic reasons from only one non-nursing prerequisite/corequisite course one time. A student can fail or withdraw for academic reasons from only one nursing course one time. If a student fails or withdraws from a prerequisite, co-requisite or nursing course due to academic reasons a second time, he/she must withdraw from the nursing major and would no longer be eligible for the nursing major. Any prerequisite, corequisite or nursing course for which a student receives a grade of less than a C (2.0) must be repeated. A student must withdraw from the nursing major if the cumulative GPA is less than 2.5, and the student would no longer be eligible for the nursing major.