misslori615

I am a current student in the Certified Nurse Midwifery program at Frontier, pursuing my Masters, rather than Post-Masters as you will be. My recommendation at this point would be go with your gut. If you're already having problems and you're not even in the program yet, that's not a good sign. If you decide to continue with your education there, and then have further problems, you'll probably be pretty upset with yourself because the red flags were there ahead of time. Now, I personally have no experience with the Stony Brook program and I know nothing about it, so you can take that bias into account with my response. :-) What I love about the Frontier program is the deep history and tradition that is the foundation of what the program is all about. If you don't know much about it, you can research Mary Breckinridge and see a little bit for yourself. As far as the tuition doubling, I don't know the difference in content of the programs, but I know that Frontier CNMs have stellar reputations from what I've seen for myself, so the education must be a large reason for that. I would look into the differences course-by-course to see what the difference is in the content between the programs so you can see why Frontier has more hours required. You don't want to go the quickest and easiest route if it will not give you adequate preparation for the career you are going to pursue, especially in a career as important as midwifery. I'm not saying that Stony Brook's program doesn't prepare you, because obviously I don't know that. I'm just saying look deeper into the content and the differences in the curricula to make sure you aren't getting what you pay for. Less is not always more. Hope this helps. If you have more specific questions, please let me know and I'll help if I can. :-) Lori

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