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I've recently been accepted to Holy Family's Accelerated Nursing program-- I understand they have just begun their first cohort, so finding information is very difficult and I just want to be informed before I make any sort of decision. Are there any current HFU accelerated nursing students or traditional nursing students who can speak to their experience with the university? I've seen many negative posts but they also seem a bit outdated! Thanks!

For Professor Mathews, record her lectures and listen to them over and over and go over the PowerPoints. Her exams are tough but fair, listening to her lectures really helps.

I was reading some reviews on other websites it is true that most of the cohorts end up failing and that passing is nearly an 80%?

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I've never heard that. I was in Cohort 4. Up until then the NCLEX pass rate was 100%. I'm not sure what happened after that but I don't think most cohorts fail. I know Cohort 5 all passed too.

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I've never heard that. I was in Cohort 4. Up until then the NCLEX pass rate was 100%. I'm not sure what happened after that but I don't think most cohorts fail. I know Cohort 5 all passed too.

I just read that the passing rate for certain courses is extremely high and that the grading system is a bit skewed to make courses harder.

If you Google Holy Family nursing reviews, there are not many favorable reviews with many saying "i made the worst mistake of my life coming to Holy Family"

How bad of an experience could make multiple people rate the school so negatively?

I am not trolling or trying to incite anger among members just trying to decide between different ASBN programs

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Honestly don't know why they would it rate it so negatively. There were definitely things I wasn't happy with but overall I felt I received a good education for a quarter of the price of other ABSN programs. And from what I hear about other programs in the area, they are a lot tougher than holy family grading wise.

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I think most of the reviews are coming from the traditional program, and even that has improved. I'm in cohort 8 and we started in January and haven't had one failure yet. It's tough but if you put in the work and care, you'll do fine. Also the grading isn't really skewed, a lot of programs are moving in this direction. Almost all nursing schools require 77 to pass. I love the program, I'm just about half way through it and I feel I know SO much more than I did 6 months ago. I also know that nclex pass rates have been 100% or close to it for the ABSN.

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I think most of the reviews are coming from the traditional program, and even that has improved. I'm in cohort 8 and we started in January and haven't had one failure yet. It's tough but if you put in the work and care, you'll do fine. Also the grading isn't really skewed, a lot of programs are moving in this direction. Almost all nursing schools require 77 to pass. I love the program, I'm just about half way through it and I feel I know SO much more than I did 6 months ago. I also know that nclex pass rates have been 100% or close to it for the ABSN.

That is reassuring and 77% is pretty high more than most of my med school buddies who complain when the class average pushes the pass to 72-73% (usually its 68-70% depending on class cumulative performance)

At any rate, for HF are all the tests written by the school or do you have to take ATI/HESI exams for courses for your finals? I have read some ASBN programs give these type of tests to prepare you better for the NCLEX and make sure that all relevant material is known from a certain course.

The deadline for admission is July 31 i doubt I will get into the Spring cohort so it should give me a solid year or so to study before i enter the program and i was planning on using uWorld / Kaplan NCLEX qBanks and learning from the questions as preparing for pharm/path/other nursing courses.

I assume you go to school 5 days a week with one day dedicated for clinicals? How long do you study after class 4-6 hours a day?

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Honestly don't know why they would it rate it so negatively. There were definitely things I wasn't happy with but overall I felt I received a good education for a quarter of the price of other ABSN programs. And from what I hear about other programs in the area, they are a lot tougher than holy family grading wise.

Could you elaborate on some of the things that you were definitely not happy about?

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Some nursing schools are 73 to pass but almost all schools have moved in 77.

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We do use ATI, the tests are written by the professors. Where they get ideas for the questions, I'm not sure. However they are NCLEX style questions. We have class 2-4 days a week and clinical 1-2 days a week. It all depends on the semester and what classes.

I'm not sure what I should elaborate on for why I like it. I think the professors care, clinical instructors are great, I feel we're provided with everything needed to succeed. The scheduling is tough and you need to be flexible as every 8 weeks, it will change.

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I agree, most of the professors and clinical instructors are awesome. We had a few bad experiences with a couple of professors but they're no longer teaching there. You really are given every opportunity to succeed but you have to want it enough to work extremely hard. It's no joke. Your schedule changes every 8 weeks and some classes are harder than others. If you're willing to make the commitment, you'll do great.

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We do use ATI, the tests are written by the professors. Where they get ideas for the questions, I'm not sure. However they are NCLEX style questions. We have class 2-4 days a week and clinical 1-2 days a week. It all depends on the semester and what classes.

I'm not sure what I should elaborate on for why I like it. I think the professors care, clinical instructors are great, I feel we're provided with everything needed to succeed. The scheduling is tough and you need to be flexible as every 8 weeks, it will change.

So did you have to take the ATI before you took the NCLEX to prove competency? do you get multiple attempts or is it fail and you are out?

Or was there an ATI test after for example Med-Surg?

Im confused as I read that some schools use multiple ATI tests (which i assume are not written by professors) and then others make you take one ATI test at the end of your program before sitting for the NCLEX

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We had multiple ATIs and then a comprehensive at the end. You get 2 attempts at the comprehensive. If you fail both you still graduate but they won't let you sit for NCLEX until you finish a 12 week online ATI review

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