St. Clair County Community College

It doesn't suprise me at all. It's just the way it is. This girl that I knew from last year who is suppose to graduate this month (I don't know if she did, because the last time I spoke to her was about six months ago), told me that- there are still people who fail in their last semester. A few of them are LPN's already and they still fail. I don't know exactly how that happens, but it happens.

I guess this is how I see it: It's better to be out of a nursing program in ur first/second semester, rather than ur fourth semester. Better to be out sooner than later? Or something to that effect? Of course, it's BEST to graduate!

It's just hard to get there. It doesn't matter what kind of nursing program it is. It just seems to get tougher every semester, in each year. People lining up for nursing jobs are getting longer and longer.... yet, NS are still filled with nursing student applications.

I hear this a lot at community college's. I'm not sure why it is and I don't blame the students. I had a aunt a while back that graduated from a cc by us that took in 200 students and her graduating class was I think she said 64...and she told me this was common. I'm at a University and it's funny here we actually have retention officer's and there job is to help the students to prevent them from failing...but they take in only 62ish students so...

I am starting my last semester at St. Clair County Community College and out of 110 students that started my program we are down to 87. We've only lost 23 in 4 semesters. I don't believe that anyone failed this semester and I've heard that very few fail last semester. (We had 13 fail our 1st semester) I kind of find it hard to beleive that almost half of the 1st year students failed this year. I'd check your numbers with the school if you're concerned, because that seems like a lot. I heard that around 20 failed, but of course that's not from a reputable source.

It is a very tough program, but I've heard that they have a very high NCLEX pass rate.

Hope this helps you in making your decision about applying at SC4.

Yes, that number is very accurate (54), but remember this that is 46 out of 90 not out of 100. The 100 number is very deceiving since it is 90 new students with 10 returning students from last year. Every semester SC4 takes in so many students from previous years that failed so when it comes to graduration the final number is very decieving (so it dose not look that it is such a small class). With 46 students failing in the first semester out of 90 new students something has to be said about a program like this (instuctors). I know of no other school that has such a dropout rate. My advice is if you can get into a different nursing school is just that. Your chances of sucess would be greater than at SC4. Those number don't lie (46 out of 90). SC4 will not give you those number, but I know first hand that those number are very close to being accurate.