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Hello all!

I'm an LPN from PA but I have a question about medical assistant school in NJ.

A friend of mine lives over there and I guess in her program for school she is allowed two absences per class per semester. Bottom line was that she used her two absences and then was way late on a third occasion, and they pretty much told her she could no longer continue.

She is worried that she won't ever be able to get into another program because she was kicked out from this one. As far as I know, she got excellent grades all the way through, it's just this absence thing.

I won't even lie, I don't know anything about MA schools. I could see them telling her she could never go to their program again.... But would this stop her from going through another schools program?

She's really worried that no school will allow her in the program and I honestly just don't know what to tell her. Any insight would be appreciated. :)

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I see no reason why she would have to ever disclose this information unless she has unfinished issues dealing with financial aid or unless she is taking an MA program in a community college.

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She was doing the MA program in a community college. I don't think she was using financial aid. I guess the new school would see from her transcripts that it was unfinished. I don't know.

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Nobody would find out about a proprietary school, but a community college program would be disclosed because schools typically ask for transcripts from previously attended schools (she might try to get away with not mentioning first attempt). The other giveaway is use of financial aid, which would be tracked through use of the social security identifier.

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If she didn't use financial aid for that community college then when she goes to enroll in the new school if she doesn't mention her previous expulsion they'll never know... That was a long sentence.

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Thanks for the input.

From what I gathered from her, she was worried that the AAMA wouldn't allow her to gain licensure because of getting herself kicked out of a program, and that made no sense to me because...people fail stuff, and can still get a second chance. Albeit, that second chance may be somewhere else and further down the road, but it's still possible.

I just wonder if it would be in her benefit to speak with someone at a prospective new school...because one absence was due to a car accident. The other was a sick day and I don't believe she's got a doctors note so that one is going to be unexcused no matter what.

Who knows. Poor thing. Best I could tell her was that **** happens, then we move about our lives and try to fix it.

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Being honest and having a plan in place so the same mistakes are not repeated is always a good thing.

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