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Tweety, BSN, RN · Jul 2, 2004

That might be urban legand too, as I've only known a couple of med students and only one law student, but that's what they said. I might also be thinking of a hollywood drama, "take a look around, only half of these people won't be here in four years". LOL You are right Organic Chemistry weeds out a lot of pre-med students. My class only had two drop out and no one fail out.

Funny, I've always heard the opposite (particularly for graduate programs) - most of the weeding out is done in lower level classes, then those who are considered academically qualified enough to be admitted into their particular programs are encouraged and assisted as much as possible in order to graduate (with a great deal of self sacrifice and hard work along the way). I think the nursing program I'm beginning next week has like a 98-99% retention rate (so out of a class of 50 only 1-2 students drop or fail out in a 2 year period). :)

Tweety, BSN, RN · Jul 2, 2004

That might be urban legand too, as I've only known a couple of med students and only one law student, but that's what they said. I might also be thinking of a hollywood drama, "take a look around, only half of these people won't be here in four years". LOL You are right Organic Chemistry weeds out a lot of pre-med students. My class only had two drop out and no one fail out.

Funny, I've always heard the opposite (particularly for graduate programs) - most of the weeding out is done in lower level classes, then those who are considered academically qualified enough to be admitted into their particular programs are encouraged and assisted as much as possible in order to graduate (with a great deal of self sacrifice and hard work along the way). I think the nursing program I'm beginning next week has like a 98-99% retention rate (so out of a class of 50 only 1-2 students drop or fail out in a 2 year period). :)

Altra, BSN, RN · Jul 2, 2004

I once had a nurse tell me that the people who run the NCLEX purposely fail people because they can't have everyone a bunch of nurses passing all the time. This comes from a nurse who it took 4 times to pass the boards.

:rolleyes: :rotfl:

Yeah, what would the world come to if "everyone" passed boards "all the time." I love conspiracy theories.

Altra, BSN, RN · Jul 2, 2004

I once had a nurse tell me that the people who run the NCLEX purposely fail people because they can't have everyone a bunch of nurses passing all the time. This comes from a nurse who it took 4 times to pass the boards.

:rolleyes: :rotfl:

Yeah, what would the world come to if "everyone" passed boards "all the time." I love conspiracy theories.