ADN Program Failure rate

Why is this the case? What is it that brings these students down? If you're in the nursing program you have already completed A&P and other rigorous courses...so you are not a total dunce.

I just worry, I did really well in my prereqs....I would hate to find myself flunking out of nursing school!

Why is this the case? What is it that brings these students down? If you're in the nursing program you have already completed A&P and other rigorous courses...so you are not a total dunce.

I just worry, I did really well in my prereqs....I would hate to find myself flunking out of nursing school!

I've heard from an instructor in my program that nationally getting a B+ in A&P is a good indicator of ability to successfully complete a nursing program. My school, being a community college with a bent towards "inclusion" of all, allows a minimum of a B-(80%) in those classes as a pre-req for applying to the nursing program. But then you get into the nursing program (which has a different grading scale than the rest of the school) and an 80% is a high C rather than a B-, and the cutoff for passing any nursing course is a 78.0% (low C), and it's often those who scraped by with a B- in A&P who aren't making the cut in nursing classes.

As long as you did well in your pre-reqs, I wouldn't worry too much. But if you scraped by in earlier classes, nursing classes are likely to be even more difficult.

i got c's in both a&p's and get A's in B's iin all my nursing courses(graduate in May 2012)...a&p was hard everthing else wasnt really i even pulled an A in micro...everyone that gets a C in a&p is not waste of a spot in NS maybe they just found it harder than everything else...i know lots of people that got better than i did in a&p and they they dont have grades as good as mine!