Please Help

All_Smiles_RN · Jun 30, 2004

That sounds illegal to me for sure. Definitely call the school and find out.

...Jennifer...

Altra, BSN, RN · Jun 30, 2004

Well, let's relax and think about this for a minute. Is the school in total control of your grades? No - your score on a test is your score on a test - you're largely in control of that. You're in control of keeping your grades up.

I don't want to sound harsh, but if I were a school administrator and I got a call from a new student accusing the school of something unethical ... well, I'm not sure I would have warm fuzzy feelings about the student.

You were accepted! It's time to start this new venture on a positive, optimistic note! :) Good luck to you!

Gator,SN · Jun 30, 2004

Call the school yourself and ask how many students were in the class and graduated from the nursing program last month. I have never heard of a school that only graduates 10%. Every school has a minimum passing percentage rate or gpa that needs to be maintained. I'd ask for that information. If the school has a website it could probably be found on there.

Good Luck!!! Gator

Tweety, BSN, RN · Jun 30, 2004

Sounds like an urban legand to me. If 90% of the students are dropped or fail out there's something wrong with the program.

They probably were referring to the natural process that happens in every nursing school that the number of graduates is sometimes drastically different than the number of students who start. Same thing happens in law schools, med schools, or any tough program, only the strong survive.

Many of us lovingly refer to this as the "weeding out" process. :)

IamRN · Jun 30, 2004

Sounds like an urban legand to me. If 90% of the students are dropped or fail out there's something wrong with the program.

I agree. To be accredited you have to show a certain passing ratio. I don't see how one could maintain accreditation only passing % of your students.

OTOH, this is only the first of many "I heard's" that you will encounter. My best advice is to keep an open mind. I seem to remember many times when these "I heard that's" circulated within our student population. School is already intense enough w/o having to deal w/negative comments.

Energizer Bunny · Jun 30, 2004

Okay, I'm trying to figure out the math here and it's not working for me right now (too late in the day I think! LOL!) My school starts with 70-75 students (though this year they've added 20 more) and generally about 30-35 graduate at the MOST. They have a 92% first time NCLEX pass rate. I can't figure out where I am going with this but I am thinking that generally schools fail people because they fail and that's that. I can't imagine that a school would fail students unless they were really failing (isn't that on another thread too...?)

beccaleigh72 · Jun 30, 2004

I am thinking this person had a bad experence with the school and just trying to put it down. I told him it was not likely that is was true.

DeanG · Jul 1, 2004

I think you should call the school also. That just doesn't seem right. My school does have a different grading scale for the nursing students. For example 93-100=A, 87-93=B, and 80-87=C, where their other programs are 90-100=A, 80-90=B,etc... But other than that, there is no failing of students that are not in the top 10% of thier class. Check in to it, and good luck!

manna, BSN, RN · Jul 1, 2004

Same thing happens in law schools, med schools, or any tough program, only the strong survive.

Funny, I've always heard the opposite (particularly for graduate programs) - most of the weeding out is done in lower level classes, then those who are considered academically qualified enough to be admitted into their particular programs are encouraged and assisted as much as possible in order to graduate (with a great deal of self sacrifice and hard work along the way). I think the nursing program I'm beginning next week has like a 98-99% retention rate (so out of a class of 50 only 1-2 students drop or fail out in a 2 year period). :)

francine79 · Jul 2, 2004

It sounds like stupid rumor to me. For one if this were true, those students would know that they really didn't fail and the whole "evil plot" would have been discovered already. I once had a nurse tell me that the people who run the NCLEX purposely fail people because they can't have everyone a bunch of nurses passing all the time. This comes from a nurse who it took 4 times to pass the boards.

francine79 · Jul 2, 2004

It sounds like stupid rumor to me. For one if this were true, those students would know that they really didn't fail and the whole "evil plot" would have been discovered already. I once had a nurse tell me that the people who run the NCLEX purposely fail people because they can't have everyone a bunch of nurses passing all the time. This comes from a nurse who it took 4 times to pass the boards.