Please explain Baker College to me

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Can somebody please explain Baker College to me? I really don't know much about it, except that you have to earn all these points to increase your chances of being accepted into their nursing program.

It just seems that Baker College has just popped up, but I know that can't be true. How long has it been around? Who owns it? Why is the tuition so HIDEOUSLY expensive there? What other programs do they have? How many nursing students do they accept a year? Do they accept transfer credits?

Why do you like it so much? What don't you like about it?

Looking at emails & talking to the teachers, if that might be part of the criteria for deciding who will be admitted into the Baker nursing program, I am glad I was accepted into a community college nursing program instead of at Baker. No wonder some of the instructors insisted we emailed them every week. When I was in the Baker classes, there were those who wanted the answers spoon fed to them & those who viewed nursing as a good paycheck & steady job. I also ran across people who after several attempts at applying at the community colleges & not making it, thought Baker would be the easier route. However, that is not the case. Additionally, I volunteer at a hospital & I have seen nursing students from the community college I will be attending-I have yet to see any Baker nursing students. I wonder if this might be attributed to a form letter I received from the Clinton Twp Baker nursing department, informing me that the nursing program had lost their accredidation & that it might influence my decision whether or not to continue to pursue the nursing program. Maybe there is a correlation. Additionally, I will be paying $72.00 a credit hour (a better deal) at the community college instead of the $182.00 a quarter hour Baker charges. Can we say saving money?

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Looking at emails & talking to the teachers, if that might be part of the criteria for deciding who will be admitted into the Baker nursing program, I am glad I was accepted into a community college nursing program instead of at Baker. No wonder some of the instructors insisted we emailed them every week. When I was in the Baker classes, there were those who wanted the answers spoon fed to them & those who viewed nursing as a good paycheck & steady job. I also ran across people who after several attempts at applying at the community colleges & not making it, thought Baker would be the easier route. However, that is not the case. Additionally, I volunteer at a hospital & I have seen nursing students from the community college I will be attending-I have yet to see any Baker nursing students. I wonder if this might be attributed to a form letter I received from the Clinton Twp Baker nursing department, informing me that the nursing program had lost their accredidation & that it might influence my decision whether or not to continue to pursue the nursing program. Maybe there is a correlation. Additionally, I will be paying $72.00 a credit hour (a better deal) at the community college instead of the $182.00 a quarter hour Baker charges. Can we say saving money?

Looking at emails and SPEAKING TO INSTRUCTORS is not the criteria for admissions. It is to help prepare the student for the work place. Attending class in your slippers is unprofessional. Sitting back and not participating in class does not help you in the real world when your on a medical "team." Working in the medical field is a serious profession and school should be no exception.

When I first started attending Baker I called several hospitals in the Detroit area and the Flint area. I asked to speak with the nurse recruiter at each hospital. I then asked them how they felt about Baker College nurse graduates and if they felt that Baker graduates were properly prepared. Every single one of them, including Detroit Children's Hospital, Hurley Medical Center, & Genesys Regional Health all assured me that they have many nurses from Baker College and they felt that the nursing program at Baker was fine program.

Yes, it is more expensive. However, when I started in the fall of 2009, Mott Community College (which is the only community college in my area) had a 3.5 year waiting list. Plus I had to take several classes there before I could be put on the waiting list would have made it four years before getting into clinicals. The wait at Baker? Three months. Can we say "saving time"??

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The important thing is that you want to be a nurse & Baker sounds right for you. Being a nurse is a calling & is a wonderful occupation that gives us all the opportunity to help people. Your heart is in the right place & know you will acheive your goal. Best of luck to you & God bless you.

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i am not understanding why you keep saying that baker college ct "lost" their accreditation? they never had it, they are working on it. what happened is that they were required to hire more full time employees for the program before they can be considered for accreditation. they have just finished hiring the needed employees and will be reapplying. you can't lose what you do not have.

looking at emails & talking to the teachers, if that might be part of the criteria for deciding who will be admitted into the baker nursing program, i am glad i was accepted into a community college nursing program instead of at baker. no wonder some of the instructors insisted we emailed them every week. when i was in the baker classes, there were those who wanted the answers spoon fed to them & those who viewed nursing as a good paycheck & steady job. i also ran across people who after several attempts at applying at the community colleges & not making it, thought baker would be the easier route. however, that is not the case. additionally, i volunteer at a hospital & i have seen nursing students from the community college i will be attending-i have yet to see any baker nursing students. i wonder if this might be attributed to a form letter i received from the clinton twp baker nursing department, informing me that the nursing program had lost their accredidation & that it might influence my decision whether or not to continue to pursue the nursing program. maybe there is a correlation. additionally, i will be paying $72.00 a credit hour (a better deal) at the community college instead of the $182.00 a quarter hour baker charges. can we say saving money?
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Okay, got it. Thanks.

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destiny4nursing

Best of luck to you. If you're up for it, it's worth it. If it sound too rigorous then community college may be the way to go.

Oh yeah, I was worried about the student loans too... but you're allowed like $53,000 in loans, unsubsidized of coorifice. That's the maximum given out for government loans (like Sally Mae).

Wow...I grew up in Owosso, so this thread caught my eye - Baker might be "rigorous", but it isn't recognized as even equal to the local community colleges, every community college in Michigan that I checked was NLNAC accredited, Baker isn't on that list. IMHO, no community college student should even know about a $53,000 federal loan limit, with average community college tuition running under $3k a year, the limit is pointless.

I just looked up Baker tuition for 2010, and nursing classes are $220 a quarter hour ... if my math is right we're looking @ the equivalent of $330 per semester hour, and the effective tuition rate is even higher when you add in the prerequisites that Baker requires and no other college will accept.

might as well go get your degree online and save yourself some trouble.

http://www.buyrealdegree.com/archives.php#article1

I hope you take this the right way, destiny - this isn't an attack on you - but Baker is charging top dollar and demanding their students jump through lots of hoops , all the while shirking their responsibility to their students by not getting themselves NLNAC accredited. There are hospitals that won't hire students if they come from a non NLNAC-accredited school. Why would you graduate with $20-40 possibly 53k?! in student loans and then get denied a job opportunity? Or, possibly worse yet for you, get passed over for hiring or promotion in favor of a community college student...

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I'm learning (after taking ALL pre-reqs at Baker) that NLNAC accredidation is HUGE, and Baker doesn't have it. I (thankfully) got into Macomb, although I applied to Baker as well, and very well could make it in there too for the Fall 2010, but even if I did, I'm not going. I'm going to drive the extra 30 miles each day for that accredidation.

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