Iowa Nursing Students- HELP!!!

[hawkeyeginger]

Hey, allnurse! This is going to be my first post, and it is a rather important one to me.

I live in Iowa and am currently applied to Hawkeye Community College, Kirkwood CC, and Kaplan University. Assuming I am accepted into their the programs, as in I will start clinicals in the fall, which one should I attend? I hear conflicting information about the colleges. I first heard that Kirkwood had the worst nursing program in Iowa, then someone told me that Hawkeye's ADN graduation rate was so low that they got invetigated for not teaching the right information. THEN I hear that Kaplan Accrediation doesn't carry from state to state. But once I talk to students who graduated from these programs and get their stories, their experiences appeal to me, although only the one that graduated from Hawkeye disputed the nasty stuff I heard about their program.

I have a great number of gen. eds./ non-ADN classes DONE and as such most of the schools tell me I am at the front of the line to get into their nursing programs.

And I know NICC has one of the best nursing programs, but it's waiting list is up to three years last time I checked.

So can any students/ people in the know about any of the aforementioned programs PLEASE weigh in with their opinions? It would be greatly appreciated!

[StangGang92]

I think Kirkwood, I also go to school in Cedar Rapids, but I'm getting my BSN.All of my friends who are pursing a ADN are getting theirs from kwood. I've also heard Indian Hills CC is a good program.

But, from what I hear from friends going to kwood the program is good. Plus, I've been told that they've made some changes to shorten the time of the wait list. Plus the area hospitals kwood students get to go to are amazing. Hospitals within a 30 mile radius include University of Iowa, St. Lukes, Mercy, Mercy Iowa City, and the VA hospital.