City Tech Fall 2020

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Hi All,

Anyone else applying?

Yea, I completely understand where you're coming from. I think you ultimately have to do what's best for you. I am also looking into other CUNY programs as well, I hear either York or Queens College has a great 4 year program, maybe it's worth looking into. Remember, you have time and you have options. Based off the reviews iv read, I just don't think this program is the best one. It worries me that this is a 70 seat program and on average, 15-20 of those seats actually succeeds, that's not even half. @Anny

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1 hour ago, G0G25 said:

Yea, I completely understand where you're coming from. I think you ultimately have to do what's best for you. I am also looking into other CUNY programs as well, I hear either York or Queens College has a great 4 year program, maybe it's worth looking into. Remember, you have time and you have options. Based off the reviews iv read, I just don't think this program is the best one. It worries me that this is a 70 seat program and on average, 15-20 of those seats actually succeeds, that's not even half. @Anny

While I know/my brain that I have time and options, my heart doesn't. Like I transferred once already and it was already hard enough. My parents weren't understanding of it eventually my dad came around after listening to my logic. My mom didn't and still critiques me for leaving hunter, saying that hunter is a good school and city tech isn't etc. She refuses to listen to the logic. If I transfer or even mentions transferring, I'm just opening myself up to more critiques and I don't think it's going to go well. I'm stuck here at city tech and got to rough it out. The good thing is that I have a fair amount of credits, so if I don't want to rush graduation then I can take less classes and have a better pace.

1 hour ago, G0G25 said:

Yea, I completely understand where you're coming from. I think you ultimately have to do what's best for you. I am also looking into other CUNY programs as well, I hear either York or Queens College has a great 4 year program, maybe it's worth looking into. Remember, you have time and you have options. Based off the reviews iv read, I just don't think this program is the best one. It worries me that this is a 70 seat program and on average, 15-20 of those seats actually succeeds, that's not even half. @Anny

Are you going to look elsewhere immediately? I also found another post on this site about city tech nursing. The reviews are honestly scaring me a lot.

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18 hours ago, Anny said:

I went to the nursing department many times and it seems like no one is really there. I guess I missed all the warning signs beforehand.

There is another City Tech student who was in my cohort that has a real horror story. bhooooop is his tag on allnurses and it’s awful. Due to THEIR error, he couldn’t continue this semester and now has to pick up again in fall. They dropped a bunch of us without a word; no email or anything, to let us know our clinical was cancelled. Some students didn’t know until the first day of class. It was a mess and a half. If I make it through, I’m not doing my BSN there, no way.

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19 hours ago, Anny said:

I went to the nursing department many times and it seems like no one is really there. I guess I missed all the warning signs beforehand.

We just got a new chair after a whole year. People who had to go through the appeals process were told that their appeal went to the wrong person, or that it wasn’t read at all. So many little things adding up to us not feeling supported as nursing students.

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@HopefulAutumn16 I mean this just corroborates with what happened to me, when I called to ask my GPA when I received my rejection letter, they marked the wrong grade on my application for a class that I never took and then gave me a bs excuse of "even with the correct grade, we didn't go pass your GPA" which I knew was bs because Iv personally meet applicants who has a lower GPA than I did and got for the semester I applied for. The individual who I was in contact with was very nice and I could see it wasn't personally their fault, but the whole thing doesn't sit right with me.

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3 hours ago, HopefulAutumn16 said:

There is another City Tech student who was in my cohort that has a real horror story. bhooooop is his tag on allnurses and it’s awful. Due to THEIR error, he couldn’t continue this semester and now has to pick up again in fall. They dropped a bunch of us without a word; no email or anything, to let us know our clinical was cancelled. Some students didn’t know until the first day of class. It was a mess and a half. If I make it through, I’m not doing my BSN there, no way.

Yeah that's the post I saw. After reading that I got really scared. I guess the main thing is that I'm not scared of working hard. I'm just scared of outside factors that I can not control and administration making thing complicated for no reason or just straight up messing up.

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8 hours ago, Anny said:

Yeah that's the post I saw. After reading that I got really scared. I guess the main thing is that I'm not scared of working hard. I'm just scared of outside factors that I can not control and administration making thing complicated for no reason or just straight up messing up.

Exactly, and that’s where we are finding ourselves right now. There hasn’t been a clear path of recourse if there is an issue. Also, the NCLEX is changing and as a result, the tests are changing. Yes, the shift to understand and apply critical thinking is the priority in nursing school and some students have a difficult time grasping that. This is part of the challenge and we understand that. But honestly, most of us really feel like we are on our own in certain ways. Also, the SIM lab was disconnected when the nursing program moved into the new building. That was about two years ago and no one has bothered to even reconnect them so we can run simulations. We keep being told that, “someone has to come from another department to reconnect them.” Little things like that are disheartening.

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9 hours ago, B20 said:

@HopefulAutumn16 I mean this just corroborates with what happened to me, when I called to ask my GPA when I received my rejection letter, they marked the wrong grade on my application for a class that I never took and then gave me a bs excuse of "even with the correct grade, we didn't go pass your GPA" which I knew was bs because Iv personally meet applicants who has a lower GPA than I did and got for the semester I applied for. The individual who I was in contact with was very nice and I could see it wasn't personally their fault, but the whole thing doesn't sit right with me.

That rejection may really be a blessing in disguise, honestly. Yes, it’s cheaper to attend this program but sometimes, you really get what you pay for. I would pay more to be able to confidently get through school while being supported. I’d have a better chance of getting through.

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3 minutes ago, HopefulAutumn16 said:

Exactly, and that’s where we are finding ourselves right now. There hasn’t been a clear path of recourse if there is an issue. Also, the NCLEX is changing and as a result, the tests are changing. Yes, the shift to understand and apply critical thinking is the priority in nursing school and some students have a difficult time grasping that. This is part of the challenge and we understand that. But honestly, most of us really feel like we are on our own in certain ways. Also, the SIM lab was disconnected when the nursing program moved into the new building. That was about two years ago and no one has bothered to even reconnect them so we can run simulations. We keep being told that, “someone has to come from another department to reconnect them.” Little things like that are disheartening.

Okay that now is messed up. If you are going to open a nursing program, you should at least have the resources and stuff you have working. All you have to do is connect them. How does this school still have it's accreditation?

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It’s still accredited because it meets the qualifications for New York State; a dossier exists for every nursing student where all of your care plans and other work is kept. They meet the criteria on paper, even if so many fail out.

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On 2/29/2020 at 3:53 PM, Anny said:

Yeah the thing is after that reddit post, I considered Lehman or going to community college first (getting LPN then LPN to RN). I only ended up transferring here because I thought as long as I can get in then I can grind it out. If it's one person saying that then it might be a fluke, but if it's a lot then I don't know. At this point, I should've just stayed at Hunter and became a math teacher or an accountant/actuary or something. It just seems like nursing is just either impossible or going to bankrupt you. This is so discouraging.

I think once your an lpn it easier to transition to RN so I was told ding give up

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Isn't it just best to go through the program yourself before making a judgment? Yeah a lot of people may have their horror stories associated with the program that you are applying for but... that doesn't mean that you will go through the same fate. How many times have students had bad reviews over professors but it ended up being a completely different experience for you? IDK maybe I'm saying this cause I'll be applying to Citytech's nursing program in the fall as well. Btw I also went to Lehman in which they have 8-9 prerequisite courses and the cutoff GPA is somewhere around a 3.8 for last semester so if you're considering that then goodluck

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