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Specializes in none in school for medical assistant.

I know this site is for nurses but I want to be a nurse one day in the near future so just wanted to see what is being said. I do have a question though. Here goes : I just finished my 1st year in my 2 year degree in MA. I just started to hear that this is a poor choice d/t the fact that we can't get jobs cause the MA degree is a scam. Is this true and I would hate to have to quit with only a year left and 15000 into it. I really just got into this program because the LPN program here was full for the next two years. My long term plan is to finish this get a job no matter the pay ,seeing as I don't work now , just to get into the field. Then on to RN hopefully. Any thoughts would be great TY.

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I hate to say it, but get out of there while you are ahead. That is too much money just to be a MA. You can go to work as a patient tech in almost any hospital, they will train you and pay all or most of your tuition to go to college to get your RN. Call the HR department at several area hospitals and ask for the nurse recruiter. They can help you out. Good luck.

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Specializes in none in school for medical assistant.

Ty

I finish up this year next week and I just got my paper in the mail today for MTSU and have filled it out. I will call the hospital tomorrow and check this out. I was thinking the same thing but man I hate to lose 15000 dollars and really didn't learn much.

What a waste of good money.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, ICU, ER, Peds ER-CPEN.

oh my word, 15,000$ for just 1 year of MA school? my entire nursing degree, pre-req's and extra classes towards my BSN didn't even total that much! if it's another 15,000$ for next year you can't even begin to recoup the costs for years considering MA's usually get paid around the same (less in my area of FL) than CNA's :( I'd seriously look into cutting your losses now and start pre-req's for a nursing program, good luck!

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Specializes in none in school for medical assistant.

Hi all thank you for your comments. My total cost for this school will be over 28 thousand dollars. What I did was put in my app for MTSU but they need my shot record and no one has it. I called the health dept in my hometown they have it but won't let me purchase a copy d/t me not getting shots there. It is looking like I have to finish up here... But I have a plan I am going to finish it up then go on back for my radiology degree and then add ultra sound tech degree on there as well. Any comments about this or would you somehow do it different?:twocents:

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Any comments about this or would you somehow do it different?:twocents:

I would do something, anything other than continuing on your current path. Charging almost 30k for an MA program is borderline criminal.....

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I would do something, anything other than continuing on your current path. Charging almost 30k for an MA program is borderline criminal.....

I know but I hate to quit something I have started. Maybe I should tell you the whole money thing...I have grant money that I don't have to pay back so in the end the school is only getting about 15 thousand from me. the rest is money is from government and other grants from other places. Now knowing this would you go on and finish because in the long run it is still 15 out of my pocket they use loan money first or start over somewhere else?

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Now knowing this would you go on and finish because in the long run it is still 15 out of my pocket they use loan money first or start over somewhere else?

Loan money first? Loan money still comes out of your pocket. Do you mean grant money? So it hasn't cost you anything yet, but if you continue, you'll pay 15,000 out of pocket? If anything, that's even more a reason to look into other programs, since you won't have to walk away with a loss. Also, by your own admission, you didn't really learn much [which is even more reason to believe tho program is kind of a scam]. I know its difficult to walk away after spending a year on this, but let me give you an analogy: Lets say you owned a lot of stock in Washington Mutual. You invested a lot of money in this stock [in your case, time]. Well, the financial sector starts going to hell, and your stock has dropped 50%. You know its only going to get worse, but you can't accept selling your stock for so much less than you paid for it[ or in your case cant accept putting in 1 year for nothing], so you hold on and hope things will get better. A few months later, WaMu goes bankrupt and their stock is worth nothing, and now you're kicking yourself for not getting out while you could[left with 15,000 debt and no usefull degree that will earn you a higher wage]. The moral of the story is: sometimes its better to cut your losses and salvage what you can. Another thing to consider is that many grants are not a one time deal, and you can apply for them each academic year [PELL grants are like this], so you may be able to get more grant money for an LVN program. If you're going to spend 30k, at least get your LVN out of it [and even then 3ok is a little high]. For that kind of money, I'm sure there are private vocational schools in the area that would be happy to take you with little or no wait. In the end, only you can make this descision, but I woud definitely consider cutting my losses and moving on....

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dear i need advise

i started ma training and was just about done with it til i seen what a bad choice that i was making mas dont make nothing and i was getting paid more for sitting behind a desk all day working in a furniture store then i was working on my MAs so i dropped that class i went on and got my cnas and to let you in on something that i have heard lpns are being weeded out and its all falling on the rns so with that now that i am getting my cnas there is better opportunitys out there for me as far as school goes to become an rn i think this is the best thing i could have ever done i just wish i would have known before i paid all this money out for the ma class good luck on your choice iam sure you will make the right one

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Specializes in none in school for medical assistant.

Thank you to all who have responded. And about the money at this school LOAN money goes first then grant money. I am having a hard time just up and quiting because I "and this is a family history here" come from a bad family. I quit high school when I was 17 and left home at 18. Met my husband after I left home and had kids. Just went back in Nov of last year and got GED and went straight into this school. I am tring to break a bad habit of quiting because that is all I have known. I have never finished anything I have started until my GED. This is a real tough choice I have to make and I know I have to do it soon. Thank you to all I will let you know what I decide. :confused:

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Thank you to all who have responded. And about the money at this school LOAN money goes first then grant money.

There's something very wrong with that...it should be the other way around.

Anyway, if you feel you need to continue for personal reasons, then nothing I can say about the financial realities of the situation can change your mind. To be honest, I'm kind of torn as to whether I would really want them to, after your last post....

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Specializes in none in school for medical assistant.

I know what they are doing isn't right or so it seems to me but I think if I started up the quiting part even if just for a short while I am afraid that I would not go back. I really want to futher my career I wish I had just looked at more schools instead of just this one and went in blind not knowing anything about schools. I will keep everyone updated on my carrer choice when I figure it all out.;)

Thank you for all who posted!

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