Rue or Excelsior?

Nursing Students Excelsior

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Hello fellow nurses! :nurse:

I'm looking for some sort of guidance here. I've been through plenty of threads on here and am 95% convinced I should bypass the "middle man" and go straight through EC for my LPN-RN courses.

Anyone know if EC is REALLY cheaper in the long run? Right now, my biggest thing is the cost. I know I don't need extra study materials - so that's why I'm on the fence.

My experience with Rue so far has been kind of strange. I contacted someone through the website for more information - within 20 minutes, she had sent me the contract and wanted me to sign it. Without verifying anything. For two weeks, I'd received reminders daily to sign this contract. That's when I decided to look more into it.

After I had told the woman from rue that I needed to think about it more, she changed the "grant" she was offering - this grant has already changed three times. Now it's up to 125$/month x6 years AND at the end of it, Rue will pay hotel fare for my clinical...PLUS give me a 3 day vacation...

HELP! Is this a scam?

I want to suggest that you contact your board of nursing to be sure they will recognize a degree from Excelsior. California and some other states are not allowing graduates from Excelsior to be granted an RN license because of the lack of hands-on clinical hours.

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.
It's very rare that credits/units from an LPN program (usually considered a vocational program rather than a collegiate program) will transfer over to a college ASN or university BSN program. The most I have seen is LPN license/experience credit given for lower level nursing credits sometimes requiring a test or skills demonstration.

Also, some bridge/transition programs grant en bloc credit for possession of the LPN/LVN license and/or grant advanced placement for having LPN/LVN licensure.

For example, a local university's LVN-to-BSN transition program requires 60 credits worth of prerequisites, but they'll grant an additional 14 credits of en bloc credit for producing an active LVN license. The mobility student enters the program with a total of 74 credits, and therefore, has to complete another 46 credits to graduate with a BSN degree.

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Specializes in Telemetry, Psychiatry.
Sarah, here are a couple of links that you might find helpful:

https://allnurses.com/excelsior-college-online/excelsior-college-distance-808335.html

https://allnurses.com/excelsior-college-online/clinical-performance-nursing-884109.html

In the first article, there is a link to a calculation worksheet on the EC website.

i will check those out, thank you so much!

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