BSN: Petitioning Admission Requirement for Advanced Mathematics

Process

Print a petition form , complete the form, attach pages as necessary, and submit your petition to Dannah Madden in the Nursing program office.

Instructions

Requirements for admission to the BSN program include a course in advanced mathematics. Many applicants to the BSN program have completed a course in statistics, but may not have completed a course in advanced mathematics, which is a prerequisite for statistics. Courses in advanced math include college (not Intermediate) algebra and finite math. If you have not completed a course in advanced mathematics, you may wish to petition to waive this requirement.

A petition is a written request that provides evidence to support the request. In the case of the advanced mathematics requirement and a petition to waive that requirement, you would provide evidence that you have acquired the knowledge and skill of advanced mathematics by some mechanism other than a course in advanced mathematics.

For example, you might provide evidence from the statistics course you have completed that indicates you can use principles usually learned in advanced mathematics course. You might consider principles of advanced mathematics and how:

• Advanced math concepts were prerequisites for statistics, a course you have already completed
• Algebra is required to successfully complete a statistics course
• Statistics required you to use concepts of advanced math, such as functions and their graphs, mathematical models, including population growth and compound interest and:
  • Logic, set theory, Venn diagrams
  • Probability
  • Matrix applications

Your evidence is best presented in an organized manner, indicating that you have completed a course in statistics, which required an understanding of advanced mathematics. Provide specific examples of how you use/have used principles of advanced math in your statistics course.

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