Using nursing mentors, scholarships, monthly cost of living stipends, structured intensive tutoring for entrance examinations, and science courses are successful for many, but it is not enough to reach all ethnically diverse and rural students.

Ethnically diverse and rural students have lifelong familial and geographical and educational barriers that prevent them from succeeding.

For students that have geographical, ethnically diverse, and familial challenges, it is important to have these students compete with their own peers for admission to nursing school.

Nursing administrators and nursing faculty within nursing schools must realize that a dramatic shift and change is required in the admission process for acceptance of ethnically diverse and rural students.