moo0909

Hahah I just made a thread about how I want to quit school and I didn't mention it there but I was referring to Pace. Seriously, DO NOT APPLY HERE. They (whoever runs the program) treasure the program and students at Pleasantville from what I've heard, meanwhile we get the **** end of the stick at NYC. Reasons to stay away: 1. It's $52,000+ for the program. I don't know how many times we've said to each other that Pace is a money-grubbing vulture. I feel like we aren't getting our money's worth AT ALL. There are ridiculous and unwarranted fees for everything. $300something for a supply kit that we hardly used? $700 in lab fees? Making certain clinical groups pay for $60 masks? Making us get mandatory drug testing/background checks (they told us this only a couple weeks ago and said we had til New Years to get it done. on our own dime. GET OUT OF HERE!!) 2. Communication is nonexistent or extremely delayed/not helpful. DISORGANIZED would be the right word. You go in circles trying to get an answer from the professor, who has to do the same with the heads of the department. 3. It's like survival of the fittest. Sure you can't expect to have someone hold your hand the whole way through and you do have to study hard, BUT they breed a culture of fear here!! No encouragement. No guidance. Nothing. We don't have anyone to turn to but each other in the program because most of the personnel can't or won't give you the answers you're looking for. We don't have advisors. Our handbook that we were told to refer this whole time ('09-'10) to wasn't even available for us until a few weeks ago. 4. Miscellaneous: The dining hall has terrible food. The bathrooms (for women anyway) usually have no lock and/or no hook. The library here is the worst ever, people are NEVER quiet. The gym is a hole in the wall. I could go on for days. I didn't even mention how terrible clinicals are. If it was one or even two things... fine, I'll live with it. But there are too many things wrong with this program.

It's not that I don't want to be a nurse, but I hate my school. Actually, my school makes me question if nursing is really what I want to be doing. I'm in an accelerated bsn program and none of us are happy. It's SO SO SO disorganized, there's no support for the students from any of the administrators or professors (we don't even have an advisor assigned to us! none of us!), and half our class is "failing" (ie will get kicked out for having a single class under 78) one or more classes. I am close to failing a class as well. Not to mention it costs an arm and a leg and then some to go here. I got drawn into the idea of graduating quickly and tried to overlook all the bs that this school has put a lot of us through, but I'm ready to look elsewhere now. It's pretty much too late to apply to start anywhere in the spring or summer, but I'm definitely considering my options for Fall '10. I'm looking at my community college's ASN program for sure, but I've been told that the ASN will be phased on in a few years (so should I bother)? I could always do the RN-BSN route later and it would be so much cheaper. Or I'd like to get into another ABSN program but how badly will it reflect on me that I quit another nursing program? Is it something I even have to mention when applying? Are the rules different when you quit vs. fail school? Will the ASN program care as much? I don't know what to do and just getting frustrated that I spent all this time trying to get into this school and now all I want to do is leave