My daughter, who is an excellent student, had some difficulties with one of her classes and was not able to maintain the minimum C grade (got a C-) in this one class. Although, she completed 130 credit hrs and has a 3.4 gpa, she was booted from the nursing program in her senior year!
Furthermore, after some reseach, she finds out that this one "problem" class is not even a requirement in other nursing programs! She's tried other schools in the area and there's either a long waiting list (up to 3 yrs.) or they only offer RN to BSN. Other schools will on accept a portion of her credit hrs in transfer. It just seems rediculous!
Does anyone have a suggesion? Anyone been down this road?
My daughter did re-take the class and still ended up with a C- in it. That's why she got kicked out. The policy is maintain a C avg. (her's was a 3.4) and nothing less than a C in any one class (that's the problem).
So, she spent four years of her life, oodles of money paid to the school, maintained a 3.4 gpa, and none of the classes are good for anything other than a nursing degree. She can't even change majors without practically starting over from scratch!
Every school has a system to retake a class. And every school has a process to reenter a program once they are formally dismissed from it.
Each nursing program structures their classes differently. The way they divide up the content of those classes is different. That is the reason this particular class does not show up in their curricula.
Example I took nutrition. I transferred to another school. Nutrition was not a required class. Nutrition was iincorporated in my other courses but did not show up as part of the course description. Nutrition is an essential part of any nursing program and you must have that knowledge to pass the Boards.
She needs to go to her academic adviser or a counselor at the school and find out what she has to do to repeat the class.
It is foolish to change schools over one class when that is all she has to complete.
She might have to reapply to the program to retake this particular class. If she follows the steps to reapply getting back in should be relatively quick and painless. She may have a waiting period, but it is usually less than 12 months certainly no more.
If this is the route she must go there will be hoops to jump through. She will need to do that.
By all means, find out the whole story of why she was asked to leave.
Go to the Dean, the Provost, the President, whoever you have to go to and get some answers.
And find out a way for her to complete that program.
Get her some remedial help so she can maintain the required average, too. Is she working too much? Caring for kids? Other responsibilities? Alleviate as many of them for her as you possibly can so she can get through school - if Nursing is what she really wants.
Could she become an LPN more easily? She could do that, work a while, then get her RN.
Sounds like it's pretty clear why she was asked to leave -- she made less than a C in the class, re-took it per the school policy, and still made less than a C. No mystery there ...
I'm assuming that the school was clear about the "C-to-progress" policy from the get-go, right? (By the way, their policy, C average, no individual class below a C, only one retake, is very common in nursing programs -- that is the standard to which most nursing students are held.) Unless the student has some kind of impressive extenuating circumstances, I'm not sure the school is going to be too sympathetic.
I see she already retook the class. As I said there is a process to reenter the program. Follow it.
I have seen this at my school gals in exactly your daughters situation. They reentered the program twice. Some made it the third time some just were not meant to be nurses.
I know this is disappointing. Education is not wasted. If you believe that you are doing her a disservice.
I know a nurse who literally (not practically) started over from scratch 4 times. She finally graduated with a 3.4 and is one of the sharpest nurses I know. If your daughter wants this she can do it. It may not be in the way or time that you had planned or hoped for her. It may even take more $. but she will do it.
It is just a matter of what is important to her. Does she want the bad enough? Only time will answer that.
If she was booted from a nursing program, there had to be a reason and she should have been given documentation of that. The route that some students take is the appeal of dismissal from the nursing program. Universities have an appeal policy and I would encourage you to find it. Most of the time it is in the catalog, which should be available online. Look and see in the policy what reasons for an appeal would be and see if she fits any of the reasons. If she had any extenuating circumstances (illnesses, death in the family, financial hardship, etc...) providing documentation for consideration during the appeal process may help. Be sure that you know all of the policies for dismissal from the nurisng program, as knowledge of that is helpful and you won't be blindsided.
Look into what she said above.
This whole thing just doesn't sound right. I have seen people struggle with all of their classes and they just didn't get to pass that year. They came back the next. I would definitely check into this as she stated above.
Just a small observation here. I know you are concerned about your daughter, but it might be good for her to come here and speak for herself. This is a great website for encouragement and ideas. Maybe she's feeling kind of low right now, but eventually, she could really benefit from communicating first-hand and hearing the stories of others who have experienced similar difficulties and have triumphed over them.
Well, the OP, the mother, didn't say her daughter wasn't allowed to come back at some point. All she said is that the school has (so far) followed its stated policy about not letting students progress if they make less than a C in any class, and she's upset about that and looking for suggestions on how to get around the policy.
Actually, the policy at this school is - once you're kicked out, you're out. No second chances. No re-admittance to the program. Her only option was to re-take the class, which she did.
I guess what I'm looking for here is other options. Perhaps a school that will accept the classes she has already taken so that she can complete the BSN she started.
I can tell you what I'd do. I'd get a copy of my transcript and start shopping ADN/BSN programs in the area. Make an appt with admissions and see what that school would do for me. It can't hurt. Given that I personally had no other source of income, I'd go to the point of seeing what an LPN program would offer me and rebuild from there.
This would be after I exhausted all efforts to reconnect with my original program. I saw some amazing re-admits done in my time almost always due to intense groveling and sincerity. There is always wiggle room in my experience.
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Thanks everyone for your replies.
My daughter did re-take the class and still ended up with a C- in it. That's why she got kicked out. The policy is maintain a C avg. (her's was a 3.4) and nothing less than a C in any one class (that's the problem).
So, she spent four years of her life, oodles of money paid to the school, maintained a 3.4 gpa, and none of the classes are good for anything other than a nursing degree. She can't even change majors without practically starting over from scratch!