Getting kicked out of nursing school because of money

Editorial Team / Admin · Oct 2, 2018

Take a semester or 2 off, work like crazy, and save the money. Then return to the school. Some will allow you to pick up where you left off. Is your financial aid exhausted? Are you attending a for profit private school where tuition is sky high?

apmarquez · Oct 2, 2018

I am not sure if my financial aid is exhausted. My school has screwed up my financial aid; it was fine last quarter. Yes I am attending a private for-profit school

elkpark · Oct 2, 2018

Well, to be fair, it's not really "getting kicked out." If you can't pay the tuition, you can't continue on in school, same as you can't take things from stores if you can't pay for them. Have you talked to the financial aid office there? I would think that a for-profit school would bend over backwards to be able to keep making money off you, since that's their main objective. Is there some other reason they might be wanting to get rid of you? The for-profits are notorious for 'weeding people out" as it gets close to graduation, in order to try to keep their NCLEX scores artificially high.

Do you have any other options financially? A loan from a family member? Private student loans? Working? I agree with Rose that, if worse comes to worse, you step out of school, work fulltime to make some money, and then come back (if that is an option).

Best wishes!

Ramcharger310, ASN, CNA, RN, EMT-B · Oct 5, 2018

I would go the student loan route versus leaving school and working for a year. You typically will make more in one year as an nurse than most jobs that you just picked up to for the dough.

Get the license and then pay off the loan.