% of people failing your program?

[woahmelly]

It seems that roughly 50% or more people will fail the first semester in my program. Is this standard? I ask because, although I myself am passing, there are people 100xs smarter then me who are not.

What are the failure rates of your 1st semester classes?

[CrazierThanYou]

I just completed my first semester, and we didn't lose too many people. A couple of people left due to personal issues. Pharmacology was the big class that supposedly weeded people out this semester, and I know that a few people (less than 5, probably, in a class of over 30) didn't pass. Overall though, we've lost way less students than I lot of other programs I've heard about. We're though.

We didn't lose too many during the first semester but I'm anxious to see how many are there for the spring semester...

[ErinRN2B]

^ Me too. Supposedly this semester a lot of second-semester students failed OB/Peds. I was really looking forward to that class, so I hope the instructor isn't as hard as people are saying...

[ParkerBC,MSN,RN, PhD, RN]

I am in a ABSN program. I think the youngest student is 26 and the oldest 55. We started with 14 in our cohort. We lost two, but because of financial reasons, not because they failed out. That was after the first term. No one in our cohort is ever close to the cut off line. Most are in the 90’s with a few in the upper 80’s.

[pockunit, ADN, RN]

We lost eight (two drops, the rest fails). We'll pick new people up and do it all over again.

[reeta116]

we lost 14 out of 62. only 1 person for personal reasons.

[SNB1014, RN]

well, i dont know the stats for the ones who make it through the full program, but in my 1st semester, 1 in 8 failed out....aka 12.5%. im not sure if this is typical, but thats what my RN program saw this yr

[jennafezz]

We have a really high retention rate. Nobody from my class has failed out yet, and the class ahead of us lost two or three people out of 65 after the first year.

[hogan22]

I just finished my first semester. I think about 50% of the people will no longer be with us when I go back. This is my second time through college (went to a big 10 university and had a 3.6 with a double in accounting and finance). I managed to get straight A's this semester. I think nursing school is downright stupid the way they do things based on my prior college experiences (which were very high quality and organized). Where i go they look for every way to make you fail. They are extremely disorganized. They look for every way to not give you credit for things that you understand or are correct on, always on a technicality. The 50% who failed out, didnt fail out because they werent smart enough. It was by design, built into the program.