Your admissions process measures academic preparation. It doesn't measure readiness.
GPA and test scores predict classroom performance. They don't predict whether a student will persist through the behavioral, interpersonal, and emotional demands of nursing education. That gap is where attrition lives.
Admissions Alignment Starts with Readiness
Every year, faculty watch it happen. A student with strong grades falls apart in clinicals. Another clears every academic hurdle and disappears before the end of second semester. You had a feeling before they enrolled. You had nothing to point to.
Academic metrics measure preparation. They don't measure readiness — the integrated capacity to manage the academic, behavioral, interpersonal, and emotional demands of a pre-licensure nursing program.
Level Assessments measures readiness directly, using instruments with a 30-year track record of validated use and zero adverse impact, adapted specifically for pre-licensure nursing populations. The result is structured, defensible data that complements GPA and test scores with the attributes that actually predict persistence.
Our Approach Readiness Measurement. Defensible Decisions.
The Level Assessments battery measures 27 attributes aligned with progression and persistence in nursing education including grit, planfulness, emotional regulation, teamwork, adaptability under pressure, and core reasoning.
Results are delivered through Vera Insight, a faculty-facing interpretation layer that translates readiness data into language faculty already use. Not raw scores. Descriptions of how a given profile is likely to show up in the classroom and in clinicals, the highest-yield intervention for each attribute, and risk combinations that scores alone wouldn't surface.
Vera reports are semester-aware and aligned to AACN Essentials domains, so the platform stays actionable across the full arc of training, not just at the admissions stage.
Key Benefits
Improve persistence and program completion by aligning admissions decisions with the realities of nursing education. Give faculty structured, defensible data to support earlier intervention with at-risk students. Reduce the operational burden of attrition and the accreditation pressure that comes with it.
