My day today started out nerve wrecking. I was so scared to see my final exam grade. When i went to go see it I got an 82 and the avg was a 72.8. Ok an 82 is nothing to boast about in nursing school.This is for health assessment by the way. So my average for the class came out to be a 78. I needed an average of 77 for all four of my exams to pass the class aside from the average, Is this how it works for you guys? Well my test avg came out to a 76, due to my second exam being my lowest score. This was the time when my professor told me I was kicked out of the program by mistake. That threw into the depression mode and I really wasn't able to focus. My return demo, abs, write ups, papers, all that good stuff were As and Bs. I ask my Ass. Dean, if she can take my other work into consideration, before I can even mention all the good grades I've gotten, she didn't even let me finish. She said, " you need a 77." She also, said that I should talk to my advisor and see what classes I should take next semester. I really wanted to cuss her ass out, but I didn't it. Even my health assessment prof. asked if she was sympathetic. I am not the only one who's had a bad experience with the Dean and the Ass.Dean. I remember one time the Dean of nursing told me that maybe I should take a semster off, because there was not any more seats for a patho course, eventhough, I had passing grades. TAKING THIS CLASS OVER WOULD HOLD ME BACK TWO SEMESTERS!!!!! No thanks to their new curriculum, that health assessment and comminty based nursing is taken first year of jr.1 and clinicals/therapeutics the second. I have so many people on my back waiting for me to graduate. I don't have people in my family who can understand the crazziness of nursing school, they just make the assumptions that if you can't do it, then you must not be smart. What else is there for me to take next sem. I found out so many students who have a 76 and the Dean would not sympathize...and she's a nurse. And when she was a nurse, they didn't have 77 as the baseline of passing. I just don't know what I should do. I'm 22, I just feel like this nursing thing is really unmotivating. I found out this semester that if I try hard enough I can make it. But seeing how SXU's adm. is a pair of well paid, selfish inconsiderate hypocrates I don't know where to go. Sorry for the gram.errors.