At my school, most of the "party animals" didn't make it past the first semester. All that's left are the serious students, whether then make A's, B's, or C's. Oh and I'm not sure about the other schools out there, but at mine, the nursing program has a higher grading scale. Anything below an 85% is a C and anything below 80% is an F. So even the "average" C student in nursing is above average compared to the rest of the college.