Does Your School Give Priority Registration to Certain People?

[jpeters84]

I have become really frustrated with the fact that my nursing school gives priority registration to people in the military (even though they are most likely not active since they are in nursing school) and to people in the spirit club which is a 50% scholarship program that is only available to people who went to the local high schools of the area, which is somewhat odd because this is a BSN program. I qualify for neither of these categories. I am a second degree student who has 200+ credits yet I can never get the professors/clinical sites/schedule I want because people in the spirit club and military get to register two weeks before anyone else and take all of the good professors. Does anyone else's school have policies like this? I'm thinking of asking my school more about this and fighting it. I don't want to make waves but there is a mountain of difference between regular faculty and adjunct faculty at my school and I am so afraid of getting a subpar nursing education because so many people are getting an advantage ahead of me. Advice/Insight?

[kcochrane]

In my school, you get to register early if you have 12+ credits. Seats are saved in some important classes such as Anatomy or Microbiology for just graduating high school students, LPNs with advantanced standing and nursing students in general. I recieved one point for being a vet when it came to acceptance into nursing school. Now that I'm in nursing school, we are registered in class by the adminstration. If you don't like who or what you get, you need to find someone to switch with.