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1) I started with 42 and ended with about 24. 2) There are daily forum posts and occasional written assignments but the test scores are pretty much what counts. 3) Yes and no. Your tutors will be your classmates. The instructors have little time for personal education. They are often teaching 5 cohorts at a time, office hours are spotty but available. 4) In the ABSN the "lectures" consist of power points with a voice over. Many of the lectures were recorded years ago and may or may not have been reviewed by the current instructor. This led to a disconnect between the message the students were getting and what the instructor expected. Did the school care? No, and we lost a lot of good people because the teachers never bothered to review the material we were given before getting the lesson plan together. 5) I averaged about 10-16 hours a day, 7 days a week and only remediated one test. Good luck with free time in this program.

As a Roseman grad I can honestly report that most of the staff could care less about your success in the program. They have some instructors that are awesome, don't get me wrong, but the QA/QC on teachers is non existent. I have had instructors who had no clue about the evolving mindset of nursing. They were unable to explain rationale, pathophysiology etc. and after their failure to educate resulted in people getting kicked out of the program, the school response was to let it ride under academic freedom. At least the former dean --------------------is gone... She, in my opinion, was a student antagonist. I have from an inside source that she was pissed if everyone passed a test on the first try because "the test wasn't hard enough." I doubt if the new dean is much better. This school is run like a business: they want your loan money but if you can't work around their failures and inconsistencies--tough luck, thanks for the money. If you are a strong student you come out of it with a great resume, but I would not recommend this program to anyone. They need to close the program and re-assess what they are asking of their clients/students. But they won't because they are making really good money off people they can convince will succeed. I started with 42 classmates and graduated with maybe 22 of the original group. The school made about 200K off their own ineptitude. And they fight to the last breath any challenge to the integrity of the program. Hmm, broke ass student vs corporate lawyers? How's that going to turn out? I am writing this as a Roseman graduate in the hopes that it deceases their admission rates and forces them to re-evaluate the program. God knows they didn't have an ear to listen to me when I was a student.

Hey Losa, I am a recent grad of the ABSN program at Roseman. I have a few friends who did the 18 month program (ours was 15 months) so hopefully I can answer your questions. Roseman is a unique program which brings with it some great positives and negatives. We are required to graduate with a 4.0 which means that each test we take has a pass/fail threshold of 90%. That said, unless you are extremely driven and self-motivated this is a very difficult program to choose. We are divided into groups when we are admitted to the program and the testing goes as follows: we take the test individually first, then we take it again as a group of 6-8 students (same test). If the group scores above 90% then each member gets an additional 5% added to their individual score. Essentially if you have a great group, you only have to get an 85% each time. If you fail to pass with a 90% you have to retake the test alone and score above 90%. If you fail to do this you are held back to join the group behind (often around 3 months.) In my experience, the instructors are generally adequate, however, there have been times that I had teachers who had no idea how to instruct us. When we had complaints, the administration was generally not interested in taking action which meant that the weaker students (who could be excellent nurses mind you) failed out eventually. This is a strong program that attracts and trains excellent nurses, but their major failing is the administrative staff that looks at the school like a business rather than an institution of higher learning. This leaves students with little recourse when they have issues with the quality of instruction. In the ABSN, our blocks ranged from 2-4 weeks and we had to absorb often 1000-1500 pages of text and 50-100 hours of lecture material in that time. Then we had to take an 80 question test based on that material. Trying to get an instructor to give a comprehensive review was like pulling teeth because they felt strongly that they should not "spoon feed" us. The result for us was that we had to rely on each other to be teachers etc. to make it work. I started with 35+ classmates and when we graduated, there were less than 20 original members. Roseman will make you a strong nurse, no mistake--but it is because of your effort, not theirs. I truly hope that they make revisions to the program because I saw some dang fine people fail out for no other reason than lack of quality instruction.