Galen College

MissGwen you said you had to pay some, was that after aid and student loans? if so did you have to pay a lump sum or like make payments or something?

Yes, I was referring to paying some of my tuition out-of-pocket. My tuition - financial aid = a balance. You might get lucky, though!

I am not sure how they are doing the payments now. Best to ask your financial aid officer or maybe one of the students who are about to start. I know some of us pay monthly.

The reason I am telling you is so you don't make any big purchases,etc. in case you have to pay. Also, it can help you plan better. Having an EFC of 0 can be misleading. I was really surprised when I found out I had to pay.


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Hi Jsadler! I don't know the exact details, but my husband owed $1500 and he was told to pay it all by July 15th, so we paid it by check yesterday at orientation. Later, the head of the financial aid department mentioned that they had a monthly payment option, that is set up and comes off of a credit card automatically each month. His financial aid person didn't tell him about the monthly option, so you may have to be pro-active and bring this up yourself. She had us stressed out and it may have been unnecessarily, but anyways we came up with it.

Robin Isaacs, the public health nurse, is really good about getting you in quickly. It only took me a week to get started with her after I called. You will probably get her voicemail, but she will definitely call you back!

Let me know how everything goes!

I work full-time during the day and would really like to attend Galen's evening program to get my LPN. My question is about homework. I could do homework over the Fri-Sat-Sun weekend, but would have very little time to do, for example, an assignment that was assigned on Monday and due on Wednesday.

How is the homework there? I know working full-time and going to nursing school will be horrible, but I want to know if it's horrible.... or impossible....

Thanks!

Hello all,
I was wondering if anyone knows anything about the new entrance exam for Galen. I was there today to take my CPAt, and there were a few girls that had come in to pay and register to take their exam . The lady at the front desk informed them they are no longer going to be administering the CPAt. They must register for the new exam because there aren't any more slots available and the last CPAt exam will be given Thursday. They didn't seem happy at all and one of them said they had heard this test was much harder . As far as I can tell, this new exam is much more in depth with a science portion and it takes four hours to complete. I am hoping I passed today and won't need to take this new exam but if so I would like to find out if any one knows anything about it. I also wanted to give anyone interested in Galen a heads up about this new test.

Why would anyone go Galen and pay all that money for an education.

So the weirdest thing happened today... i was called by Galen and told that someone dropped out last minute for the July day clas and they wanted me to start this Monday! LOL! I was so confused... but it just wasn't do-able for me because I wasn't able to not show up to work on that short of notice, get all my medical records together, my books, uniforms, proper financial aide, etc. But anyway, I told them thanks anyway, but it just was too short of notice for me with all I have going on at the moment, and they told me that I am 100% definitely guaranteed in for the October full-time day class! Yay! So excited See you all there!

Wow, that is really short notice, Laurencarol! Congratulations though for definitely getting in for the October class!!!!

Just out of curiosity, which Galen campus are you waiting on hearing expectance from?

I'm currently waiting to hear from St Pete, but I have been given the run around. Nobody has an answer, so I'm actually reconsidering a different school to attend.

Thank you-
Jess

I attended Galen college for one week and one day. I was not impressed! Yesterday we had major flooding going on in the Louisville area and people had to keep leaving class to move their cars, because they had water up past the tires, but they didn't cancel class until nearly the end of the day. There were students out in the parking lot with their pants rolled up and socks off. They were wading through water to get to their cars to move them and then had to come back into class. We were not even warned by the staff that there was flooding going on. We didn't know about it until we went on a break and saw it for ourselves. VERY UNPROFESSIONAL!!