How many people did you lose?

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My program is rather small with only 170 or so students. I don't know everyone, obviously, but I know of at least four people (and rumored at least six more) that have either left the program or have flunked out. It saddens me that people are forced to sit out the rest of the year and wanted to see just how common or how uncommon it is to lose people so easily.

Specializes in Peds/Neo CCT,Flight, ER, Hem/Onc.

A hundred years ago we started with 175...we graduated 27!!!!! A "C" was a failing grade and they kicked a girl out 3 weeks before graduation!!!

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A hundred years ago??

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Wow! These people have all lost so many. I have only finished my first term, but we started with 32 people and only lost one (she dropped the second week because she was overwhelmed and decided to go another route). Everyone passed this term and hopefully it stays that way! I suppose it partly depends on how competitive the programs are to get into. Mine was tough to get into so everyone had to be prety sure this was what they wanted to do.

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Specializes in Ante-Intra-Postpartum, Post Gyne.

I was in a class if 44-43 (can't remember) We lost one after the first semester after her husband was transferred for his job. A second was lost after the second semester when a guy decided he wanted to do OP instead. And a third we lost our sixth semester when she did not pass clinical (but she later did a repeat and is now an RN). Other than that, everyone else from the first day of school I graduated with. Most of the people in my class had a 3.4 GPA or higher and were selected by merit, I think that helped. My friend got into a 2yr program that used a lotto and had 5 people fail the first semester, two in the first few weeks

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Specializes in Hospice Care, Med/Surg.

We started with 24 and finished with 9! They gotta weed em out I guess so that they can have and keep high NCLEX pass rates! In my state they have to have a high pass rate to keep their accreditation....

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Specializes in Peds/Neo CCT,Flight, ER, Hem/Onc.
A hundred years ago??

It's called hyperbole Sarah. No it wasn't 100 years ago it was 25 but it feels like a hundred.

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After the first semester we have lost 1 person out of 60. Our program has a 100% NCLEX pass rate. I feel lucky to be in a program where the faculty is very supportive and lets us know that they really want to see us all succeed. They keep saying that we have an exceptionally smart and nice cohort. :nurse:

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Specializes in orthopedic/trauma, Informatics, diabetes.

Our group started with 57 (some were returning-had to audit) and we now have 36 going into our last semester. Our school's pass rate wasn't 100 b/c the LPN to RN bridge students from last year had a really bad pass rate. All the ADN students passed (all but 2 on the first try).

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We started off with 120 students in my class 3 semesters ago. Last semester we had 101 students and currently only like 87 people are registered for our classes that start this month (and I'm pretty sure everyone has registered). They don't all flunk out though. Some people fail one course so they get a semester behind and sometimes we get people who go down to part-time so they might be in 1 or 2 of our classes but not all of our classes.

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Specializes in ICU.
We started off with 120 students in my class 3 semesters ago. Last semester we had 101 students and currently only like 87 people are registered for our classes that start this month (and I'm pretty sure everyone has registered). They don't all flunk out though. Some people fail one course so they get a semester behind and sometimes we get people who go down to part-time so they might be in 1 or 2 of our classes but not all of our classes.

That does not sound too bad. Do you know if any of the 87 starting this Spring are readmits or LPN's bridging in?

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Specializes in Emergency Room.

We started with 95. After this first semester I think we're down to about 60/65.

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That does not sound too bad. Do you know if any of the 87 starting this Spring are readmits or LPN's bridging in?

We actually don't have an LPN bridge program. If your an LPN you just get extra points to be accepted into the program but you start at the beginning with everyone else. I wont know if any of them are readmits until school starts but they told us last semester they are trying to no longer readmit anybody unless they are in the last semester. I know out of the 87 at least 2 people started before us but dropped to part-time or had to retake a class but the rest should be people who started with us 3 semesters ago.

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