Winners Circle 2531

What is your experience? Would you care to share? There’s a few misguided people on this post that seem to think that this school is such a good school and were never even enrolled! Just going by what they “heard” and not the FACTS! I want to hear from people who actually experienced the horror show!

Did your coworker actually graduate? Of course she’s saying great things about the program now. The school’s faculty is super nice while you’re in the program because they want to keep collecting your money. But once you get to the finish line, that’s when they show their true colors! They sent people from one cohort home because they didn’t have all their prerequisites completed. Now that’s definitely a red flag. Any legitimate nursing school WOULD NOT enroll any students who haven’t completed their prerequisites. They even had the audacity to start offering “pre-requisites” for the program two months before they were scheduled to graduate! The so-called president of the school lied and told students that Essential didn’t accept CLEP and when students voiced their concerns all of a sudden he said OK we’ll accept them. Knowing damn well it takes about a month to complete CLEP in it’s entirety and the students wouldn’t have time to complete them all. And had the audacity to charge $250/class and it wasn’t even a class. Those classes aren’t even transferable! Essential School of Nursing are money hungry and prey on students who weren’t born in this country because they’re desperate to become RNs. Many of them have been LVNs for a long time and never had the opportunity to do a RN program. They saw Essential as a way out, only for them to be sold a dream! Many are STILL waiting to take their boards, months, even over a year after they graduated from that scam school but that’s a whole nother topic!

There is NO teacher that is a MD there. You said you did not go to the school, so how would you come to that conclusion? They’re RNs and one NP. That’s it. You were not enrolled in the school so how would you even know if it’s a scam or not? Did your friends tell you how the school is having people fly back down to Miami to retake an exit exam that’s not even a graduation requirement in order to have their names sent to the Florida BON by the school? Due to the school being afraid of the Florida BON seeing them for who they really are with the subpar NCLEX passage scores? How the school is purposely failing students on their “clinical rotations” and charging them an extra $1000+ to come back down to Miami to do it over? I want to hear from the people who ACTUALLY graduated from the program with NO PROBLEM. Not those who are “friends” and hearing about the program through the grapevine!

When your friend actually graduates, come back on here and let us know how that goes. Your friend says she’ll have “no problem endorsing her license to CA”? Is she aware that California is NOT a compact state, so she can’t just switch her license over like other states. I suggest you and your friend open your eyes and realize that this program is not who they pretend to be. They are very unorganized, unreliable and haven’t have the slightest clue about how other states BON operates, therefore giving students false information.

londonflo you are absolutely correct. However, they didn’t file to open a nursing program until 2018. Very strange. I have read this thread and wish I did before I enrolled in this catastrophic program. Everything you said was correct. Essential School of Nursing definitely is below subpar when it comes to the program as a whole and adequately preparing students to pass the NCLEX. That’s why their passage rates are so low. They don’t care! $17,000 per student for a nursing program where you pretty much have to teach yourself! There’s so much more to this story! Again, to anyone reading this, DO NOT go to this school! They will NEVER get accreditation and will end up getting shut down!

Right! Florida was cracking down heavy on this approved fly by night “schools” in the past. Students were going to the Florida BON and BOE with numerous complaints. Way too many red flags, just like Medlife, who lost their accreditation due to stealing students financial aid refunds! Essential School of Nursing is NO BETTER!

It is a scam. They put NOTHING in writing! Every time you turn around there’s another fee! For classes you can’t even transfer and looks like they were composed by an elementary student. They are on probation for their pathetic NCLEX passage rates (public record on Florida DOH), but they won’t disclose that to prospective students. They will be shut down soon enough!

If you are considering going here, DO NOT! This school is in several violations with the Florida BOE. They don’t teach you what you need in order to pass the boards. Just look at the beyond dismal passing rate for 2020 and 2021. It’s public record on the Florida DOH. 16.67 was the passage rate for 2021 20.00 for 2020. The national average is 81-82 for first time test takers. Those scores aren’t even HALF! Save your hard earned money and time and go to either an approved school with high passage rates or an accredited school. Essential School of Nursing won’t be around by this time next year!