Is my nursing school too selective?

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I just started my second semester of nursing school at a community college. Usually every year 48 students get excepted into this program, however, of that 48 only 15 graduate. This school seems to pride itself in the amount of students they "kick out" each semester. Is this how all nursing schools are? should I consider a different school or stick with it? HELP!

My class was 44 graduated 18. All but a couple were fail outs. Accredited school. 2 entrance tests to get in. Pass rate for nclex is high. Don't know it off the top of my head though. Some people just couldn't keep up.

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Specializes in Adult Internal Medicine.

Won't be accredited that long with failure rates that high.

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Won't be accredited that long with failure rates that high.

Lol school had been there since 1970 something. But yes lately they have been slacking. The class before us was 32 out of 42. Sometimes it depends in the group at the time.

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Specializes in CVICU.

We started out with 50, now it's 2nd out of 4 semesters and we have 31 students, 3 of whom are transfer students. I personally think it's just some students couldn't hack it, some didn't like nursing after all, and some had personal issues.

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We lost about 30-50% of our class by graduation. Some failed, some got accepted into alternate programs, some had commitments that interfered with school and could not continue on, some moved away, etc...

The biggest drop came during Med Surg I which is often called "Med Purge".

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Specializes in CVICU, CCRN.

At my university we started with approximately 80 students. I am in my final semester of my senior year and we are at about 65. Some decided it was not for them. Others got "held back" and quite a few ended up failing out.

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Specializes in Med/surg, Onc.

We started with 88 and graduated 50 after 4 semesters. It's an ADN program and we all get hired fairly quickly as well because hospitals know we are top notch.

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
Won't be accredited that long with failure rates that high.
I think if the school gets them to leave by resignation it doesn't count. But somewhere you would think it would begin to add up.
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I am also at a community college program (accredited). We start with 120 students a semester....our rate is around 30-35 of that original 120 graduate with their original classmates. That's not to say the rest don't graduate, but they either drop the program or bump down to part time. We have a first-time NCLEX pass rate of 96%. I am in my third semester and there are still people in the program that if I looked up from a gurney holding my severed arm and saw them as the RN, I'd seriously consider what I had at home to patch myself up ;) We are in patho this semester, so I hope those who shouldn't be there will be weeded this semester (I'm not trying to be mean, but you all know the kind of nursing students I am talking about...)

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We started with 27, and we are down to 17 originals and 2 add-ins. There was another add-in, but she disappeared as mysteriously as she arrived. We lost the most students after first semester, but we did lose one in third semester (peds rotation).

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I am confused, a few people have said that they had people "transfer in" or "add in" I would assume this was after the point clinicals had started? I thought it was rare for nursing credits to transfer?

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I am confused a few people have said that they had people "transfer in" or "add in" I would assume this was after the point clinicals had started? I thought it was rare for nursing credits to transfer?[/quote']

I think Add-Ins are people who failed the previous semester and are coming back.

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