DawnLeeceLPN

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Well, Just thought I would pop in and update everyone on my school status. I enrolled in Excelsior College on 9/14/2012. YEY!!!! I finally made up my mind. In order to afford to go, I acquired a private student loan to help with the financing issues. After I enrolled, I came across this page on Excelsior's Website. About Test Preparation Services After I had enrolled with Excelsior, I was still debating back and forth with myself about going through them or Distance Learning Systems. But I had made up my mind to go all the way with Excelsior. Boy am I glad I did after reading that page. I had spoke to a representative from DLS and asked if they were accredited because he had me to believe they were a school and were affiliated with Excelsior. The letter he sent spoke all about Excelsior's accreditation and nothing about DLS. I felt as if he was trying to deceive me. From the information I found out on Excelsior's page I was right!!! Thank you all for responding to my post. WISH ME LUCK!!!!!

Caliotter3, Did you go straight through Excelsior. If so, can you elaborate on your experience. I want to make sure that I can have access to instructors, I need strong structure with timelines to get the studies done on time. I work full time and distance learning is what I need. I don't want to be just given the learning materials and feel like I am on my own. If I have questions about the materials, can I get my answers. I don't want to go about this blindly. Thank you for your response. Dawn

i have been an lpn for 20 years and i finally have decided to get my rn. i have been searching through the information out there about distance learning and it seems to be what i need. i can't decide whether to go through dls or rue, or just by pass them all together and go straight through excelsior. i need structure on the learning since it has been 20 years since i attended school. i want the best possible chance of success to get through the learning process. also, i have to take all the pre-requisite classes because i have no transferrable credits. so i have to take alot of complicated courses that i don't know anything about. i don't want to just read everything myself. i would get bored with it and become discouraged:banghead:. any help with my problem would be greatly appreciated. thank you in advance!!! dawn

Hi Mandylpn, I too was considering those programs as well, but I have some co-workers who have went through Excelsior and they told me to go straight through them. Cut out the "middle man" so to speak since you will have to sign up eventually with Excelsior for all of your Nursing classes any way. I am still in the starting phase. I have sent in my transcripts and am waiting to hear back about what classes I will need to take. I am excited and scared at the same time, since I haven't been to school in over 20 yrs. Good Luck!!

David, Thank you for your reply.

I am a 20 year LPN. I am going start with Excelsior soon to get my RN. Could you all give me some feed back about the program and what I can expect. Will I have access to the instructor and will I be able to go at my own pace? Any feed back would be greatly appreciated.