How much of your cohort did you "lose"?

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So my school has two campuses, small community college, and we have about 85 people between the two campuses who are part of the ADN class of 2015. People have told me that nursing school loses sometimes 25% or more of the cohort before the first semester ends! Is this true? Did you experience this in your class? I just don't understand how that happens. You work so hard to get in, you pay so much, and you don't see it through. Why does this happen? I'm not judging anyone who this happened to, I'm just trying to understand the phenomena. Opinions?

what alternative program? I do not like how GWU teaches med surg and patho as one class.. and pharmacology the same semsester. Marymount only teaches med surg one semester then patho the next semester and then pharma second semster. Doesn't this make GWU's load more heavy???

What can one do to prep for med surg pharma-prep books, reviewing A&P- but what specifically as it is impossible to study everyting again.. what is important ot know.. I know I am gonna get my hands on the syllabus early and start reading and studying the NCLEX Shortcut Prep Cheat Sheet to break it all down and give my brain more time to digest the info.. THe way I look at it the only way I see myself doing really well ie gets high grades is to do the work ahead of time.. one of the professors at gwu agreed..

I woudl greatly appreciate any advice you have to offer.

Thanks

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Specializes in L&D, infusion, urology.

Out of our class of 24, we're graduating in May with 23.

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I was extremely surprised when I heard that our class that had started with 129 had dropped to 85 after the first semester. In our school, people don't have the option of withdrawing and getting delayed a semester. If they fail, they have to reapply next year and hope to get in, so it makes it that much more stressful.

The trend I saw was that when people weren't doing well in the class, they kept it up. They would keep saying they needed to study more or study longer, but they never got ahead. If your studying method isn't working or if you aren't understanding the material, you need to adapt/update your approach. For example: If you spend 6 hours making flashcards and only have enough time after to study them for an hour, that's fine. If you are getting the grade. If you do that and aren't passing, then change your strategy! That's seven hours of study time you are wasting if your approach doesn't work. If I do badly on a test, I always ask someone who did better how they studied. Studying efficiently is far more important that studying more.

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Specializes in Hospitalist Medicine.

We started with 64 in August. We now have 58. There are still 3.5 weeks left in this semester and we may lose even more.

The class ahead of us has lost 14 :eek:

Hopefully, we won't lose too many more in our group. The only good thing to come out of it is that my clinical group has gone from 8 to 6, so we end up learning more when we're in the hospital because our instructor isn't spread so thin. A small benefit, but I like to see the silver lining :)

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Specializes in Emergency Department.

Typically my program at the "main" campus loses about 3 students at the end of 1st semester and 2 at around the end of 3rd semester and usually around 2 during 4th semester. This is out of an initial group of about 32. This year we grew by 10 and we've lost 1 this semester and we may lose 1 or 2 more to grades. Each cohort grows back to capacity after a students are lost because of other students rolling back.

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I'm also at a community college. We start with 120 students and at the end of our first semester we had around 66 of that original 120 go on to the second semester. I'm near the end of third semester and I believe we have around 57 of that original 120 (i'm not sure how many will make it out of this semester...this is the notorious "fail" semester).A lot of people drop to part time or repeated a class along the line, so I am sure more from that 120 will graduate, just not in the same time frame as if they'd have stayed full time and not had to repeat a class.

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I attend a small community college. In 101, we lost 4 or 5. Last years graduating class had only 12 or so graduating out of 45. This years graduating class will have about 30. If someone fails a nursing course from 1st semester on, they have to not only retake that course but retake the finals from the classes they passed and must pass them to reenter the nursing program. As far as cheating goes in our school, we have to leave the room for the teachers to set up the room for the test and then we get "looked over" one by one as we enter the testing room to make sure we have nothing on our body and no writing on our skin. But it works!

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Hello! I was wondering if there is anyway you can give me advice on cantons program! I want to apply for advance standing but I have some questions. Thank you

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Specializes in Emergency Department.

I was in a BSN program, which I transferred into and only did my nursing clinical courses there.

We started with 44 and had 24 by the time we graduated. We lost a majority of those students at the end of our third semester, most failed out of our program because they failed 2 classes.

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I attended a community college, and our cohort started with 39. We finished with 34, although two of them were people that had failed a class in a previous cohort and ended up with us. Most of the people we lost were in the first semester...and I'm not ashamed to admit that I did come close a couple of times throughout the two year program to not graduating with the people I started with. Made it though!

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