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Thanks for the advice. As it turns out, we probably wont be moving back to GA after all, but your reply is really appreciated. Thanks again!

It's amazing how things differ from State to State. I'm in Ohio and things are way different in my area. I think I'll be going straight for BSN instead. Thanks for the feedback though!

Hi guys! I am a little confused about CCGA in Brunswick. I've been calling for a few days and leaving voicemails. I only just now was able to get an answer. She told me that they make you take an entire year of Core classes before entering the ASN/ADN program. So I asked, "So you mean an Associate's Degree with you guys is going to take me 3 years?" The woman said yes. Then she reiterated that I needed to speak to an advisor, which I've been trying to do. So my questions to you all are: 1) Is, to your knowledge and/or experience, she correct about an ASN/ADN taking 3 years with them? -and- 2) Is is always so darned hard to reach someone when you have questions and/or issues? I've heard great things about CCGA but I'm getting an awfully bad experience right now.

I know it's a little late as this is an older thread, but I figured if I post something it may help newer students make a better decision than I did... so here goes. I chose Miami Jacobs Springboro. The advisor seemed great, the "financial assistance" they offer seemed great. I was super excited to be starting nursing school. I was told I wouldn't have to pay a dime until I graduated. I was also told that they would be flexible with me having a husband working in West Africa and my father having late stage 4 Melanoma, who was under my care, as well as my toddler-age son. They said they work with people who have extenuating circumstances. They also said it was accredited and the school has a zero tolerance policy on cheating, plagarism, student to student abuse, etc. Once they get your John Hancock though, that all goes out the window. The instructors seemed to make a joke of "Nurses eat thier young" and practically encouraged cliques and out and out abuse in the classrooms! They also only allow you to make up ONE clinical, even though they send you up to 150 miles out of your way (a 75 radius around the school). The clinical instructors are a JOKE! They'd cut our STATE MANDATED clinical days in half to go have lunches and hang out with some of the students. I was left by myself with another student while we were providing patient care, unsupervised, at a clinical site because they left more than 2 hours early to have lunch, and, we were short something like 7 or 8 clinical hours already. There was little to no guidance and when we had a geriatric patient close to death, it wasn't a respectful lesson in Nursing, it was, "Let's all gawk at him while he drowns in his own fluids." One of the students in particular THREATENED me because I was ****** at spending over $30K to go out and have Mexican. This student was drunk or hung over half the time and was downright evil to the patients. She'd bend their contractured fingers back and listen to them beg her to stop, then she man-handle them and call them "F**king wimps". I had straight A's. I flew through my tests, got all my homework done and helped the othesr who were struggling with the math, even the horrible ones. While they made open jabs a girl who was recovering from a stroke and had an obvious speech impediment. They would rip her to shreds in front of the teachers! The teachers would even laugh at the jokes. I lost my spot in the course because I missed my one clinical and was 25 minutes late to another, and at the whims of a few of a couple of the other girls, the instructor wrote down that I was 45 mintes late and was sent home. Within two weeks of starting MJCC, I was getting bright red letters in class, along with some other girls, saying we owed our $100 a month for the "Gap" loan the school supposedly gave us. I certainly didn't sign anything like that. We were all told the same thing... everything was deferred until graduation. I wasn't allowed to finish the 2nd quarter. I had a meeting over the phone with the main person in charge of the Nursing Program, who, refers to herself as "The Dragon-lady," and she told me I shouldn't be putting my problems off on her, when all I asked was if I'd be allowed to make that clinical up. She told me a responsible Mother shouldn't be in Nursing School anyway. Excuse me? What? You directly advertise to Mothers and other Non-Traditional Students! I'm not the only one. The school's policy is that you MUST pass ATI to pass the class. That's a fairly new rule. My cousin started the Dayton Campus not long after I started the Springboro one. In her 2nd quarter, her ENTIRE class failed their ATI's because, as it turns out, they were given the complete wrong books to use to study. The WHOLE class was failed and the school tried to force them to retake that entire quarter, out of their own pockets, of course. Not for their own mistake, but for the school's mistake. How were they supposed to pass a test they weren't able to prepare for? Seems like a great way to make a few more bucks to me. My cousin also witnessed the extreme hostility in her classes and how entertaining it was for the instructors. I thought Nurses were trying to break the "Eaters of the Young" stereotypes? Miami Jacobs encourages it! On top of all these issues, we had a revolving door of professors. One class, we went through 3 different teachers, and our Med-Surg class, we had two different teachers because they would mysteriously disappear. Moving onto greener pastures is more like it. By the way, their idea of teaching you Med Math is by yelling at the class and telling everyone they should just know it because, "It's basic crap, people!" Please, please, to any future students considering Miami Jacobs. DO NOT GO HERE! I'm finishing paying off the two quarters I was there and then I'm going back. I have another Cousin studying at Fortis for her RN and she seems content there. She got her LPN through Greentree and loved it. Even Ohio Medical Career Center is accredited, half the price and has nearly 100% NCLEX pass rates! Just please, avoid Miami Jacobs like the plague!