Lichson 2011 applicants

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hi all !!

i wanted to start a thread for applicants for 2011 lichson, ill like to hear your process and just be there for all and go through the wait together. :clown: i know that hard parts are over with just the gruesome part is here WAITING! hope there some ppl out there going through the same thing as i

Specializes in Home health, Med Surg, LTC.

I hope everything works out for you. It is frustrating because no one can give straight answers. Are you a LPN?

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No, not an LPN. I took all my pre requisites, took me three years, so now I just have to take straight nursing classes.

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hi all,

I got got good news for you all. First thing is first, I contacted the Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association and spoke to the president herself regarding our situation who was outraged about the situation and said that this is unacceptable and she she will take action to help us in our cause. She gave me a lot of phone numbers of individuals from U.S. Senate, City Council, president of LICH, different news stations including the carrol gardens patch news. She said she will call all of them to notify them of this situation and told me to call them as well. Furthermore, she said we SHOULD DEFINITELY create a petition as well. I was already contacted by New York Post newspaper and gave them them our story. You can read all about it in tomorrows NY POST newspaper. He said it will be short though about 6 inch. in length since this is not exactly top breaking news but at least we will get the word out. I will keep you posted on all the news.

hi,

I just joined the Forum and I agree with everything. I called the school today and they are giving back the application fee. I do not want my application fee but rather a place in the program. So please fill free to email me and I want to get the lawyer and signed the petion. [email protected]

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hi,

I agree..They knew about the merger and yet still made student apply and pay for the teas exam. This is not fair and something has to be done. I am willing to do whatever it takes.

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hi all

well i have spoken to the assemblywomen and she said we should definitely write a petition and file a complaint with board of education. I have already wrote mine and will be sending it out tomorrow. I am suggesting everyone to do the same. Also, I have spoken to a lawyer. He said that suing the school probably wont do anything because most of us never got officially accepted but we can punish them for detrimental reliance and that in a way might force them to settle with us and just transfer us to different school. their lawyers are busy as it is and the last thing they want is publicity in court on top of their problems

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A few random thoughts:

Unless you were formally accepted to the program, filing a lawsuit will bring little and probably cost much. Remember as part of the SUNY system LICHSON now probably has access to whatever vast legal department the state has for Downstate. You *might* try to wring some sort of settlement money out of them but that is not assured. In the meantime the other side's attorneys can drag things out for years.

Have heard nothing offical about LICHSON closing it's doors, but one would have to wonder what Downstate needs with two nursing schools. Nursing programs are expensive to run even in the best of times and this certainly isn't one of those.

If NYS/Downstate is truly ending the program, they could choose to go the same route as Saint Vincent's, that is find someone to purchase the school.

What normally happens when a nursing school shuts it's doors is incoming classes are stopped, and those already in are allowed to complete. This is how things went down when Saint Vinny's in The Village closed and what is going on at a few schools in NYS that are in the process of shutting their doors. OTHO things can go as they did with Saint Vincent's of Richmond (Staten Island), and Queens, that is a new owner purchases the school but students admitted under the "old" program graduate from that school. It took a few years after EA purchased St. V's before NYS began listing board scores under "Saint Paul's" and stopped for Saint Vincent's listing the later as now defunct.

If all this is true it is a sad thing. New York City looses yet another historic nursing program as LICHSON will follow Cornell, Saint Vincent's, Flower and Fifth, Mount Sinai and Lenox Hill into memory. This would pretty much leave Beth Israel as the last hospital based nursing program left in NYC unless I've missed something.

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Specializes in Home health, Med Surg, LTC.

Looks as if someone created a facebook page about this... http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stop-the-2011-Admission-Freeze-on-Long-Island-College-School-of-Nursing/212261935475925

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The Departmenht of Education (Federal) has to okay a transfer of LICHSON to SUNY, SUNY has to okay a transfer of LICHSON to SUNY, NYS Higher Ed has to okay a transfer of LICHSON to SUNY. Right now LICHSON is not part of SUNY. It is part of the private company created to run LICH. SUNY leases the property and the only people going to be on a New York State employee line are the doctors. Everyone else will work for the private/public company created. You can try and sue the private/public company that controls LICHSON, but not SUNY Downstate. Devil is in the details about the LICH/SUNY merger. We can all sign peptetions and contact lawyers but that is not going toc hange what is happening. The state Higher ups all signed off on the death of LICHSON. So do not be surprised at lack of response. SUNY has a Nursing program and can't have 2 running at the same time. In time SUNY may have classes for it's current program at the old LICH buildings.

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Hi.

Really liking the petition like to know where I sign to get this situation forward

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Specializes in Home health, Med Surg, LTC.

Will be having petitions ready for folks to sign if interested. Contact [email protected] for place and time where you can sign.

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i agree withh you. Im down for a petition. I sent my application in Janurary 3rd of 2011 and have been waiting since then/ Never got a call or a letter nothing and this is ridiculious.. What am i suppose to do now wait a whole anothe ryear to get into a nursing program. Im so ****** off at whats been going onyou have no idea..Whos starting this pettion and where can i sign up...

Lauren

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I dont understand why they are doing this to us for.. WHy cant they just accept everyoneinto SUny Downstates program and be done with this. Its very frustrating to know that we may have to wait another entire year before starting nursing school and thats not fair to any of us..

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