Charles Drew University ELMSN FAll 2013

[lovelyme12]

Hello All

I plan on applying the Charles Drew's Entry Level MSN program. I am currently at SFSU in a post bac pre nursing program. I will be finish with the program and my pre req's in May. Has anyone else already applied or preparing to apply? Also, any individuals currently in the program that would't mind sharing a couple of things about the school. EX: typical day, clinical sites, and what CDU typically looks for when selecting nursing students?

Thanks!

[Nursing90063]

So sad to hear that this has been your experience so far! I'm curious as to what you decided to do? Are you still in the program?

[RNfromscratch]

I am still in the program, for a variety of reasons most of which have to do with where I am in life and the number of years I can continue being a student. These things factor heavily in my decision. I will say: it hasn't gotten much better but it is what it is.

[KateFutureRN]

I was searching for information on this school and I found this:

B W. Lawndale, CA

1.0 star rating 5/13/2015

Education here is WAY sub par. You won't get a quality education here. They make up things as they go along. The university as a whole is very weak & underperforming. Students here from all programs complain about the disorganization & chaotic backwards programs they are in. As far as nursing is concerned, this school is an absolute joke. It is SO corrupt. Don't even waste your time thinking about going to this university of B.S. This univ. only cares about student tuition $. It has had dysfunctional problems since it opened. If admin. wanted to fix things, they could have, but it's clear they don't care to.

Instructors come & go all the time. They quit & can't even stand working there a full year! Students are told they get told to "step down" (aka fired!) because they can't manage **** or teach. The black female faculty are ******** liars acting like they earned a salary for exerting minimal teaching efforts & trying to convince you they know what they are reading off the 3rd party PPTs.

Instructors change grades on you as they please with no rhyme or reason (btw: be sure to screenshot all your grades for records; you'll need it!). They are also THE rudest, insincere, obnoxious, dismissive, disingenuous, abrupt, & coldest people I have ever dealt with. They gossip about students' business to other students & faculty (one girl even cried because they questioned her prior degree & intelligence by interrogating her); eventually everyone "hears" what's going on in your personal business. Very unprofessional & disrespectful.

The student redress/grievance process is extremely frustrating and isolating; there are no counselors to support you if you have problems, the admin. simply give you the 'run around' & waste your time waiting for any change to occur. The admin. give you lip service & play games with your time, money, emotions, & grades. Again, AVOID Charles R. Drew University COMPLETELY!

This school has NO INTEGRITY! It has a lot of politics, deceptions, tricks, faculty lying, grade shaving, gay effeminate faculty, professor hostilities towards students, bad tests, lots of student cheating because teachers don't teach & just give you hard exams with no guidance or lecture (other older cohorts play dumb about what's going on w/ student cheating practices when it's the biggest open secret in the college!), money manipulation & misappropriation of student fees (e,g. $2,500 per semester per student on ''lab fees'' when the program never gets new supplies or equipment; students only get once at the beginning of the program); there's also student teacher's pet/favoritism, student manipulation across the board/spectrum, administration & curriculum disorganization, faculty power trips/bullying/intimidation, & student disunity. Faculty stimulate student disunity by treating some students as better than other groups simply because the color of their skin (e,g. white students get better teacher treatment & insight than everyone else (Poy) while the black students get treated like they are inferior or slower. Some ass-kissing black female students get preferential treatment because they got something to prove over everyone else and the teachers like to see that so they give them favor also.

Oddly enough, the "class pets"/newly picked "tutors" end up finishing tests in records times like 20-25 mins. when it should take the normal student like 45 mins. to just complete the test at 1 minute per problem. The teacher pet students finish 2 problems per minute and seem to miss only 1 out of 50 problems! Does that seem odd? I think so. These tests are usually 50 multiple choice exams. How are these people able to over perform all the time in every class if they weren't given some kind of edge from let's say, their professors maybe? Smell fishy?!?

Not to forget the most important aspect of CDU's Nursing and Medical programs is that their accreditation is ALWAYS on the brink of being taken away from the BRN, CCNE, or AMA. That alone should deter you! A 47% NCLEX passage rate last year doesn't help this program's reputation within the community either. My advice: you'd be an idiot to come here after what I told you.

Comment from Charles D. of Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science - Business Owner

5/29/2015 The Administration, Faculty, and Staff of Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science take comments from students, staff, faculty and other stakeholders very seriously. We pride ourselves on delivering quality education and instruction, as well as providing responsive and student-centered service. As such, we have administrators and internal systems to address student concerns when students choose to use them.