But since I was rejected flat-out during the following admissions cycle despite having interviewed their before, you are right -- that is definitely an indication that the program has gotten more competitive. It was probably just easier to get an interview because the program was still garnering interest during the first cycle I applied.
But you are absolutely right in your assessment that more people are applying and thereby making it more competitive to get accepted (or to even just receive an interview offer). Believe me, after having received an interview to a program, getting waitlisted, then going back and improving my GRE/GPA only to re-apply and be told that BOTH factors are now uncompetitive was a shock.
But to provide the OP with honest advice, I would probably *not* bother applying to AA programs without having a GPA that is substantially higher than 3.0. I know that changing majors to nursing is totally NOT what you even want to think about doing, but if you wait until your senior year of college to apply to AA programs and get rejected, you'll realize that you would've actually SAVED time if you had instead made the decision to change majors to nursing during your sophomore year.
At this point, you will probably only "lose" a single semester's worth of time by doing that; it's a lot less time than the amount you'd lose being dealt across-the-board rejections to AA programs (which is not what I'm saying will absolutely happen, but I really do think it would be a longshot for someone with a 3.0 GPA to be accepted by any program).
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