M140

I went to the CA site. Do you mind me asking how far along you are in your program?

Warning about Texas Wesleyan: As a graduate of Texas Wesleyan University I would like to forewarn future students about the quality of the program. From my experience it seems that Texas Wesleyan is solely in the business of anesthesia education to make a profit. Their program is three times the size of other anesthesia programs. This may mean that the acceptance process is a bit easier, however their failure rate is extremely high. In 2008 the fail rate of the class was approximately 25%. At TWU you will become a number, not a valued student of a rigorous and expensive program. If problems arise at clinical sites it is completely your issue to deal with, as no one from the school will back you up. In fact after numerous complaints to TWU about my clinical site they agreed that students should be placed elsewhere do to extremely poor staffing and safety issues. I was then informed there were simply too many students for TWU to be able to place at another clinical site. Once again I felt like the program had more students than it could handle. Realize that when you interview at TWU they will tell you about their wonderful board pass rate. Keep in mind that almost every school has students take the same $675 exam review course, so the playing field levels out. I hope this letter does not come across as a bitter student trying to pick a fight. In fact I did very well in the program and love my job as a CRNA. I only want to warn other students to be wise about where they decide to invest in their $100,000 education.