School Retention Rates

[GracefulRN]

:uhoh21: I just did a quick evaluation of my schools retention rate and I found that we lost 12% of our class and this is only the beginning of our second semester. Is this normal for a BSN program? I realize that the program only gets harder from here and I am becoming VERY anxious. If none of you has any words of consolation to offer I am afraid I'll have to resort to assuming the fetal position in the corner over there. (Kidding, but just a little)

Graceful

[actioncat]

I am sorry that I offended you. Obviously, there are some exceptionally good and selective public universities ... and some bad non-selective private ones. I was speaking in broad generalities, trying to illustrate the 2 extremes of philosophy that are used to determine admissions practices. I didn't mean for it to be taken as a statement on the quality of any given school or on the specific policy of any particular school. My whole point was that you could NOT use such policies (or their resulting attrition rate) as an indicator of the quality of the school itself.

If you read my post carefully, you will see that I did not say that one extreme or the other is ONLY found at one type of institution or the other ... or even that the extremes were common. Most schools actually fall somewhere in between.

llg

Ummm.... offended? I don't think so.

I did read your original post and do have to say that as far as nursing schools go, public universities do tend to be more selective. I'm sure there are some selective private ones, but if I were to speak in "broad terms" I would say public universities have more competition for entrance.