cindansis

Chances are pretty good. But are you sure that you want to go to this school? I wouldn't waste my hard earned money just to be defeated at every turn. There are only a couple of good instructors -the rest make you feel stupid and enjoy doing so.

Your never too old to learn. I am 56 and have another 2 years of school. I will graduate in time to retire!

If you can go to another Ivy Tech somewhere else-I would. I am currently a nursing student at the Fort Wayne campus and am extremely unhappy with their program and the way that they run the school. This fall had I been a new student I would have turned around and walked out the front door. The bookstore was in chaos- books that were supposed to be in were not-financial aid to be used in the bookstore was not released for use. I started a class and had to wait almost 3 weeks before getting my book and therefore become immediately behind half of the class, the other half of the classs also did not have their books. We had 3 different teachers for Pharm within a period of 5 weeks (making it terribly difficult in an already difficult class). Orientation day the program director berated a woman in front of an auditorium full of people for stealing gloves from her place of employment, the woman was paying for the gloves. The director did not let her finish with what she was saying. The program director will take any chance she has at berating people and will not let them speak. She likes to flex her muscle with a smile. Blackboard is down a great deal of the time and you have to take tests on blackboard. Good luck with that one! Try to catch it will it is still up and running so you can take your test. Oh, and if you work -"you will need to quit and get a sugar daddy", a famous quote of the program director when asked by students in her med/surg class for help. I found that particular reply to be highly offensive and insulting to those of us seriously wanting help. Oh and plan on self teaching, you will be lucky to find a teacher that does not read straight from the syllabus. I was fortunate enough to locate one instructor that cared enough to help with the med/surg and she did it on her own time. But that was one out of 5 teachers this past semester. If I were not so far into the program I would go elsewhere. I just wish I had known a year ago what I now know. Getting into the program is a battle but staying in it is a far greater battle.