Hello, my wife who is a CNA is interested in using Achieve for an accelerated RN program. The wait lists for regular schools/colleges are 1+years out so being able to start now is a plus. She never completed college and only took a handful of courses.
After speaking to an Achieve counselor, the way the program works is they gave a list of classes that she can immediately test out of by, and then take about 5 other courses at the local community college, although its not taking a full course. It's more of attending once a week with a professor they coordinated with and the class isn't as long as a typical college class. This allows the flexibility to still work full time while taking these courses.
Then after getting through those, there are RN specific courses to take that follow a similar structure. All in all, can complete all the courses and have the college credits in one year and then submit/take the NCLEX.
Total cost is about $11K, which normally would be a lot but we've saved our government stimulus from Covid and that's basically how much we got from the IRS.
Now we could probably do it for half the cost but in at least twice as long, so the accelerated option is enticing for us.
Been searching online and keep seeing random posts about negative things with Achieve although they are vague. So looking to get some specifics on whether this program is legit. Willing to pay extra to get an accelerated program so if there is another better program am interested to hear.
