Fail or withdraw nursing school

caliotter3 · Feb 8, 2011

If you withdraw for some kind of personal "emergency", you should be eligible to reenter unless the school lists your grades as "withdraw, failing". If you fail, your chances of being admitted to another school are slim. Better to withdraw.

katebean04 · Feb 8, 2011

At my college, we have a date that you must withdraw by. If you withdraw by that date you get an incomplete, which does't effect your GPA. I just had a friend that failed one of her nursing courses and went on to try for her BSN. Anything is possible. Good luck and don't sell those books just yet.

kgh31386, BSN, MSN, RN · Feb 8, 2011

Well if you still have the option to withdraw, you must be early in the semester. But chances are if you know you're failing you're past the drop deadline...which means you can no longer withdraw. Around here if you fail out of school, no school within 100 miles of here will accept you for a minimum of 5 years. Even the community colleges say multiple times on their admission page (must be in good academic standing, eligible to return to program, no grade below C-).

katebean04 · Feb 9, 2011

We have a very early withdraw date where you would receive reimbursement for your tuition. Then, we have a withdraw date that occurs about 5-6 weeks into the course, so you should have an idea of how you are doing at that point. The downside of the later withdraw is you do not get any reimbursement. We have the rule of you must have higher than C's to continue on, but if this was just 1 hard class for you- Go for your goals. Try to withdraw and get the incomplete. Every school is different, Ive seen multiple people fail out of RN school to go on to become LPNs and then bridge back over to RN. You can take classes at a community college to build up your GPA before entering nursing courses or a waiting list. And most community colleges don't use grades for general admissions (entering as an adult.) you just wouldn't be eligible for financial aid and could be on academic probation for a semester or two.. Weigh out your options and good luck.