ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study was to determine what experience factors (region of origin and attendance at a pre-nursing course), attribute factors (gender) and academic metric factors (admission exam scores and type of high school) are associated with the firstsemester Grade Point Average (GPA) of first-year nursing students enrolled in a baccalaureate nursing programme in Indonesia, using an adapted holistic admission model. A  descriptive correlation design was used. Multivariate linear regression was used to determine the relationship between factors and first-semester GPA. A significant relationship (p < 0.05) was found between experience factors, attribute factors and academic metric factors and first-semester GPA. However, the study variables only accounted for 28% of the variance in GPA. Additional research is needed to identify other factors, guided by the adapted holistic admission model, that may also have a relationship with GPA.