Wow! I don't know how to respond to this. In previous posts you mentioned numbers like 80-100 out of 300 applicants got into the SON, and 20% retention rates with the 1+3 or 2+2 program. Now that your school has changed to a direct entry nursing program you are STILL seeing only 1/3 to 1/5 of incoming freshman nursing students graduate with a BSN? That is hard to believe for two reasons:
1. I'm not sure I ever heard of any direct nursing BSN program in the US with graduation rates that low
2. As a nursing student yourself, how many students have you seen graduate since the change over to direct entry?
I also think you are failing to account for how many freshman of all majors fail during the first year. By the time ANY student in ANY major becomes a junior s/he has learned what is necessary to succeed in college. When you remove the CGPA from the students that are no longer enrolled, you'll probably find that juniors and seniors have an over all higher CGPA. Perhaps 3.0?
So in essence you would just ignore whatever work was done (or was
NOT done) in HS and throw everyone in the same class and let the ones who are NOW serious about school rise to the top?
Ahhhh...now I see the motivation for discarding the body of work from the serious and hard working HS students. Let's get rid of those HS ROTC scholarships also....at least until they have proven themselves in college like you did.
If this is truly the best method why not take this approach for ALL majors?
Great. Maybe the SON's should also require 20 years of life experience before allowing their students to compete for SON slots. What was accomplished in HS and/or standardized tests would truly have no meaning at that point.
I'll give you the last word in this discussion. Clearly we are miles apart in our opinions. No hard feelings and good luck in Army Nursing!