Rubric Breakdown for Applications – Admissions and Progression Committee (AP)

Current Sample rubric presented at last Metrics Subcommittee proposal

meeting

Essay Experience Experience

20% 50% To be decided by appointed
subcommittee (no more than 40%
when combined with attributes)

References Attributes Attributes

8% 20% To be decided by appointed
subcommittee (no more than 40%
when combined with experience)

Metrics Metrics Metrics

72% 30% 60%

2nd degree students: GPA 72 Test scores 10 Test scores 25

No degree: Test scores 31 Transcript/ GPA, to included trends 35

Trends/repeats 10
GPA 41
GPA 10
Speaking points for AP committee meeting - subcommittee report out:

 Who on subcommittee - Lead, Kaitlin Chidley. Arlene Holowaychuk and Brian Baird
 Max points = 100
o Current metrics for 2 degree puts full weight on GPA (72%). For applicants without a degree 31% is standardized tests and 41% is GPA
o Agree current metric too high, but feel proposal is too much of a drop – 30% equals just less than 57% decrease in weight. 60% equals just over
a 14%.
 We do not have data to support a drastic change. Our retention/NCLEX numbers are excellent.
 Changing both the qualitative and quantitative measures so dramatically does not allow us to see how one or the other component
changed our outcomes.
 The question was raised if trends should be over time, by courses, would 1 year or 2 years give better picture?
o Decision made to request sample of 10 applicants from previous application cycle with 70-100 credits to review their overall GPA, GPA for 1 year
and GPA for 2 years to see if there were significant difference between the three numbers.
 No significant trends observed
 Is GPA at one school comparable to GPA at other schools?
o We decided that this was outside our purview and would be better addressed by one of the other subcommittees.