Straight BSN at West Coast University

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Just wanted to find out if anyone out there has applied to the new program at WC. I called them and their November, 2008 session is already booked. Next term starts in February, 2009.....so i'm curious to find out how the $$$ is going to affect them if at all. Was it easy to get financial aid and loans, especially how the economy is?? :typing

Hi Jadedbybs,

I got to wcu O.C campus and am sooo frustrated with the school as well. Although I got As on pre-reqs, I didnt get accepted anywhere and as I am older, felt I had no other choice. I cant sit on wait lists. I always tell younger people to stay on wait lists instead of coming to the school. I find WCU so unhelpful. The classes are sooo easy. I did all my pre-reqs at Saddleback community college (yet they made me redo chem, math, english) and they were 30 times harder in community than this school. Its such a joke that they did not transfer them, we all know its for the money. My friends and I have been so worried about clinicals. This was a main question I kept asking before I signed up but now believe I was told anything to get my money. What hospitals are you clinicals at? How many days a week/ hours are they?

Thanks for your help!! :o)

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Hi Jadedbybs,

I got to wcu O.C campus and am sooo frustrated with the school as well. Although I got As on pre-reqs, I didnt get accepted anywhere and as I am older, felt I had no other choice. I cant sit on wait lists. I always tell younger people to stay on wait lists instead of coming to the school. I find WCU so unhelpful. The classes are sooo easy. I did all my pre-reqs at Saddleback community college (yet they made me redo chem, math, english) and they were 30 times harder in community than this school. Its such a joke that they did not transfer them, we all know its for the money. My friends and I have been so worried about clinicals. This was a main question I kept asking before I signed up but now believe I was told anything to get my money. What hospitals are you clinicals at? How many days a week/ hours are they?

Thanks for your help!! :o)

Thank you, I figured this is going on school wide because they are just to comfortable in their practices. I go to clinicals 1x a week for what is suppose to be 12 hours, however, that depends on your instructor, some people have been to clinicals and only did 4 hours. Some are there all day but don't do anything but sit in the cafeteria all day. Then there are some that only do CNA functions the whole day and may get to pass meds only 2 times in 10 weeks. They also make you do a lot of case studies and care plans to fill hours they can't give you in clinicals and they fill the other hours with cafe hours that you don't do anything in. I would be interested in speaking with you and others that have the same issues, we may be able to do something about the lies we were told and make the school accountable for the admissions policies and education (or lack there of) that they are providing to us. We should be compensated for the mess they have created. We are not going to be able to compete in the industry if this continues. Oh and about your pre reqs not being accepted, well that in a conversation that was over heard in which the Dean told the register here at Ontario, company policy is that they will only take up to 5 transfer credits, it is mandated that each student do at least one semester in pre reqs regardless if the classes are eligible or not. It is definitely all about the money, but that is wrong and it has harmed many students financially. People don't realize that each semester cost $15750.00 and that is money you could save. This school could be a great place if they were education focused instead of greed focused. If you would like to talk leave me your contact information at [email protected] and I will call you so we can talk in detail.

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Specializes in Aspiring for a CCRN.

Wow. I am shocked to see such a high price tag with so little in return...

We are finishing up our first semester by next week. We had minimum of 4 med. passes and 4+ subcutaneous heparin/Arixtra/insulin injections, not to mention some of us got to insert and remove foley catheters, feed medication through NGT, etc.

Just be really thorough in your research as to what school to attend. With that price tag, folks should be going to an Ivy league school for their Masters, not WCU...

Best of luck to all.

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This school sucks they are unorganized and giant ****. I have been a student there since 2009. Trust me when I say it is the Devry of Nursing schools. The instructors are good but administration is only worried about money and student services are lacking. The school tells us not to bad mouth the school because it will cheepen the degree but I don't care as long as I have my license I will have a job.I will just won't hang that diploma on my wall.They are not wasc accredited yet.and the program cost is $136000.00. Check out Western Govenors University .It's way cheaper and Wasc accredited.

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I decided to attend the school as I had no other choice. They made me redo some of my pre-reqs (so they can get more money) and it was a joke. I had taken my pre-reqs in community college and they were WAY harder than here. Now im in nursing core and its much much different. Its difinately way harder. Im doing the same classes and have the same books as my friends in other schools, im just doing the classes in half the time. Its a really challenging schedule, but Im glad to see that core is challenging. The school is currently being seen by wasc reps and hopefully will get its accredidation soon. I love my teachers, although totally agree that they school has nothing for the students. there is no school community feeling. And when they tell you clinicals are in O.C, they are not. Mine are in san gabriel, not O.C

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I am currently going through the enrollment process of the BSN program at the Ontario campus. I did very well on the entrance exam and am meeting with financial aid in the morning. I know that the tuition is a huge chunk of debt to get into, but to have a BSN in just over 3 years it might be worth it. I'm just trying to weigh my options, I really don't want to sit around on wait lists. But when I think about how long I'm going to be in debt paying off my loans... I really don't know what to do.

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I did most of my pre-reqs at a community college (originally I wanted to go to cal state fullerton, but when I finished my pre-reqs, they stopped their BSN program for 2 years, and I didnt get into other schools) Doing my pre-reqs somewhere else saved me a ton of money.

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Unfortunately I haven't got any pre req classes to transfer in. The few classes that I've taken in the past that might have transferred were too long ago to do so. I may end up attempting to challenge a couple of the classes where I feel strong in the subject if I do end up going with WCU.

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Be careful challenging, they are set up for you to fail. I spent so much money challenging and just barely passed english 1 and speach. english II i failed by a point. the exam was insane. It asked me all these research theories that I have never heard of before. I then had to repeat the class so i did it online and it was a joke. So easy and nothing like the exam.

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Well I got turned down for my loan. I was hoping to be able to do this without having to get my mother to cosign. Not sure what I'm going to do at this point, maybe I need to explore other options.

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I had to get a co-signer too. :o(

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I just worry about what will happen when it comes time to apply for the second half of the loans.

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