West Coast university - any other schools that offer fast track no waitlist?

guest769224 · Apr 24, 2018

Nothing rude was said. At all.

ProgressiveThinking, MSN, CRNA · Apr 26, 2018

Southern California RN here. I've worked with plenty of West Coast University grads. I think most of nursing is learned on the job, so West Coast is by all means not a bad school to lay the foundation that is needed to learn what you need to learn in order to succeed in the first year as a new grad. With that being said, there is a stigma with west coast grads, and I know some West Coast grads who HAD to take travel assignments in order to afford their $1500/month student loan payment. They couldn't afford to stay on as staff nurses. Keep in mind, this is before the program raised tuition to $140k, so your payment will likely be higher with interest.

That's 1500 chicken sandwiches that you could feed a poor village with each month, haha. That's close to what ill be paying when I'm done with CRNA school and will hopefully be making twice what a bedside RN does, and I still fear this payment.

There were many long nights in the ICU where I asked myself if I would pay $1500/month to do the things I had to do during my shift like wipe up feces, clean urine, clean up GI bleed, get yelled at by google doctor family members, get scolded by patients for not getting them their graham crackers on time while their neighbor was coding, etc....you get the picture.

A 2 year wait list in the scheme of things is nothing vs 10-15 years of forgoing 1/2+ of a check to a loan company. There are plenty of 4 year private schools that have a better reputation than WCU that still cost only half of what WCU does. I wouldn't normally recommend these schools, but I would over WCU.

lucy_ian · Apr 27, 2020

On 4/26/2018 at 7:01 AM, ProgressiveThinking said:
Southern California RN here. I've worked with plenty of West Coast University grads. I think most of nursing is learned on the job, so West Coast is by all means not a bad school to lay the foundation that is needed to learn what you need to learn in order to succeed in the first year as a new grad. With that being said, there is a stigma with west coast grads, and I know some West Coast grads who HAD to take travel assignments in order to afford their $1500/month student loan payment. They couldn't afford to stay on as staff nurses. Keep in mind, this is before the program raised tuition to $140k, so your payment will likely be higher with interest.
That's 1500 chicken sandwiches that you could feed a poor village with each month, haha. That's close to what ill be paying when I'm done with CRNA school and will hopefully be making twice what a bedside RN does, and I still fear this payment.
There were many long nights in the ICU where I asked myself if I would pay $1500/month to do the things I had to do during my shift like wipe up feces, clean urine, clean up GI bleed, get yelled at by Google doctor family members, get scolded by patients for not getting them their graham crackers on time while their neighbor was coding, etc....you get the picture.
A 2 year wait list in the scheme of things is nothing vs 10-15 years of forgoing 1/2+ of a check to a loan company. There are plenty of 4 year private schools that have a better reputation than WCU that still cost only half of what WCU does. I wouldn't normally recommend these schools, but I would over WCU.

Which ones do you know of that have a better reputation? If you could list them that would be super helpful