LVN programs at CCs

hi, did you have to spend time on a waitlist?

Here's the whole thing:
I attended a private school. The advantage was that they took you right away without any prerequesites. I finished the program in just under a year, but it cost me 17,000 dollars. I hear the cost of that particular program is now like 19,000.
I have a friend who attended an Adult school (and I really now wish I had heard about this prior to attending the private school) It took her a year and a half to finish and the only requirements for entering the program was that she had her CNA (which takes about 6 weeks to get) or MA (that takes longer). The only other thing she had to do was score high on the nursing pre-test they administer. She scored very high and started the program the next month. The convenience of this program was that she only had to go to school 3 evenings a week. It allowed her to keep working, and the program only cost about 3000 dollars.
Then there's community colleges. Many of these have prerequisites and a lot of them can have waitlists possibly around a year. RN schools have a much longer wait. But I know at one college near me. They require like 3 different classes which takes you at least a year to complete, before you can even start the year and a half LVN program which is full time 5 days a week. Seems a little long to me.

Good luck in your decision!