El Centro College Spring 2019

[Agallegos166]

Hi guys,

i wanted to make a forum for all of the 2019 applicants. I wanted to know what everybody was going to apply with and if they knew anything about the school still being in academic probation? Also does anybody know if the school accepts the Hep A and Hep B shows that are 1 month apart?

[Boobear29]

Okay this is a real honest review. At a mass majority of the school's they use the Hesi and only count it as a percentage of your grade. El Centro use to do the same but what they started doing was using the exam as a pass or fail every semester because they were in panic mode because the school was in jeopardy of closing. The way that we out that the school was in trouble was when TXBON came up to school and we started to panic. What El Centro does is considered "High Stakes" testing according to TXBON and the school refuses to post their progression policy on their website because they know most students won't attend their program. That's how they get your money! The school was once great, but now that they have a horrible Dean and instructors the program has declined drastically. Please save yourself the heartache and pick another school.

[Boobear29]

Yes! You have to score a 900 or better in order to progress to the next level. Everything else you said has practically summed up the program. There's no guidance from the instructors. They blame the students every chance they get. They're so lazy!

[Boobear29]

The program is cut throat they're trying to boost their NCLEX scores at all cost they give you a 125 question final that's worth 25% of your grade then they turn around and make you take the Hesi as a pass or fail. At the end of the semester everyone is stressed out to the max and you actually see people crying. It's really scary.

[Boobear29]

They don't prepare you at all for Hesi.

[Boobear29]

I LEFT!!! I watched so many of my friends cry at the end and it was just too heart breaking to see. The school does not care about the students. Currently I have an opportunity to go to another school with a more reputable reputation. That school has discouraged so many students from wanting to be nurses.

[deemin220, ADN, RN]

Quick question: this is the same HESI A2 that we all had to take to apply to most ADN nursing programs in the DFW, right? What's the course set up like? A professor lecturing? Or just PowerPoints? Thank you!

[deemin220, ADN, RN]

900 or 90? Was there anything at all you liked about the program? A good instructor?

[Boobear29]

Just straight PowerPoints. No, it's a Hesi exam, and they don't prepare students for it so that's why some find it challenging. But like I said I cannot speak for the LVN program only the RN portion. Now I do know for a fact that Grayson and TCC have a wonderful LVN-RN program.

[deemin220, ADN, RN]

Thank you for answering all of these questions. So I actually did apply for the ADN/RN program. It is honestly just straight PowerPoints?? No professor lecturing at all? Did they mention this during orientation? Were you based at the El Centro Dallas campus, or North lake in Irving?

[Boobear29]

My experiences were based out of the Dallas campus. Another thing I didn't like was the fact that they weren't going to tell us unless we asked them about the Hesi. We didn't have clue. Yes the score to get is 900 and everyone is stressed out and freaking out. I really wish that someone would have stopped me from going to that school, cause I wouldn't wish what I went through on my worst enemy.

[Jeannylam09]

Self taught program basically. I'm willing to try one more time due to their schedule working out for me. And yeah the tests and end of semester HESI are a completely different format. They need to make them more similar so we don't get surprised by the format it's given in. Guess I'll just have to study harder. No way you will pass if you don't.

[deemin220, ADN, RN]

I guess I'm fairly clueless, but what is the schedule for the ADN/RN program? So if it's basically a self taught program, what does the professor do for the students?