mandalee65

My school, the night program in particular, has had a 100% pass rate most year - except when they change the NCLEX. I'm not sure I'd worry so much about the pass rates, though. That just means they're teaching you how to take a test, which is a one-time thing. I'd be more concerned with what area hospitals have to say about a particular school. Which grads are they most likely to hire? Around here, they don't care what you made on the NCLEX, but they do care very much which of the seven or so area schools you graduated from.

I guess I'm lucky... my school does a 2-year program, and the last night class had about a 75% pass rate for the course and a 100% pass rate for the NCLEX. The instructors are fantastic. They put a ton of work into the program, and they are very accessible. I couldn't ask for a better program.

This December my husband will graduate from an associate's program, and I am starting it this semester. We've already chosen a school in the same family as our college to do the transition to BSN. I've already got a BBA, so there isn't much left for me to take anyway. I figure that by the time I get the BSN, I'll have the experience I need to get into an MSN program. Around here, there is no difference whatsoever in pay from the ASN to the BSN. Furthermore, the hospitals in this area would actually rather take students from our school than the others in that offer BSN programs, because we are better prepared!