ECPI?????????? Please Comment???

U.S.A. North Carolina

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I basically wanted to know if anyone has any experience with ECPI in Charlotte NC. Im going Monday to take my TEAS test and I know the LPN course is stupid high:idea: but I need to take an Lpn course. Charlotte doesnt have cc with lpn courses. Only small towns near charlotte that are completely far away from me. I really would appreciate your feedback.

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10/7/2010 Anyone who lives in North Carolina, South Carolina, or Virginia that has teenagers ready for college... Please do not send them to ECPI college of Technology / MCI Medical Career Institute. They are the same college with different names. The college is a private college that is a scam business. These guys are scam artist. Please research ECPI Ripoff before attending, To go to this school to become an LPN, the cost is $33,000.00. They are overpriced. You will do much better going to your closest community college. ECPI Charlotte, NC will manipulate grades for some students and will not do it for other students. The instructors will label each student with bad comments, which will be passed on to the next instructor. There is no student-instructor confidentality-meaning the instructors will tell all of your business to other students and faculty members. Instructors will believe all gossip/rumors without investigating them and will pass on to the next set of instructors. They will also set up the test for you to automatically fail. You will have an instructor, who will tell the whole class that you will not pass my first test - and believe me they will set the whole class up to fail the first test. If you fail out of the nursing program the first time, it will take you months to get back in with an exception if they decide to let you back into the program. You are not guranteed to get back into the program- if this is the case- they have collected your $33,000.00 at this time. Once they have collected all your money from finacial aid and loans, they have the right to not let you return to the program. This college is a hustler school... it is more about business and money than it is about education. Therefore they do not have to let you back in. There clinical sites are a joke. They take you to clinical sites where no one hires LPN's anymore. You constantly do more CNA work than you do LPN work. Some instructors have such a bad attitude, that certain ones can't attend to certain clinical sites because the clinical sites no longer want those instructors at that facilty. Save your money and go to your local community colleges. You will have a better chance to be all you can be at your local community colleges than attending to ECPI/MCI.

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I see a lot of talk about the MCI in Charlotte...does anyone have any info about the MCI in Raleigh? I've read mixed reviews, but nothing major one way or the other, so I'm kind of on the fence about it.

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That's where I am on the fence! I want to apply to the lpn program at the ecpi in raleigh but I wonder if the credits transfer to other schools if I did decided to go for my RN. I've heard good things and bad things about the one in raleigh are there any former or current students who care to clarify the situation?

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That's where I am on the fence! I want to apply to the lpn program at the ecpi in raleigh but I wonder if the credits transfer to other schools if I did decided to go for my RN. I've heard good things and bad things about the one in raleigh are there any former or current students who care to clarify the situation?

Exactly! I know that Vance-Granville CC offers an LPN-RN bridge program, but I need to call first and find out if they accept credits from MCI. I would think they would, but I don't want to assume. VGCC offers an LPN program as well, and although it's much less expensive than MCI, it's also harder to get into.

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my community college has an lpn-rn program, i am currently in the lpn program.

they do not accept mci's credits for a&p, you would have to repeat pre req's because they do not consider them equal to a&p 1&2. they do not accept other credits, but i am not sure right off hand exactly which ones. we have a girl in my class right now whose sister cannot take lpn-rn due to mci.

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What community college do you go to? I've heard from a lot of people that credits don't transfer and they had to retake classes

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i've heard the same Virgo... if you want to go farther education wise you will probably have to retake the majority of your classes as your credits won't transfer...

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Well I applied to Vance-Granville, durham, and a few other schools so keep me In your prayers

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Well I applied to Vance-Granville, durham, and a few other schools so keep me In your prayers

So, have you heard from any of the schools yet?

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In reference to transferring credits from ECPI it depends on the bridge program. The basic A&P courses given in the ECPI LPN program will not satisfy the the A&P requirement. In addition to courses, many bridge programs require that you work for a number of months (anywhere from 6 - 18mo) as an LPN before you can be considered for entry into the program. In the bridge program the idea is that you will enter the second year of the traditional RN program. Some community colleges will allow you to take placement courses in exchange for transferring college level English and Math courses.

But there are several graduates of the ECPI LPN program that have gone on to LPN-RN bridge programs with no problems. So much of the coursework transfers.

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@Ronda919 did you complete the ECPI program or are you still enrolled? Expected to start Oct 4

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hello I'm starting the lpn program @ecpi in oct. Are there anybody else going?

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