Unfair grading!! Chamberlain University

[_RNSTUDENT]

I attend Chamberlin college of nursing, I ended up failing the second to last class to graduate nursing school, which is Collaborative.

For some reason this session with our cohort they decided to incorporate ATI capstone (capstone the last class to graduate) in our Collaborative class. We only had two exams on the actually topic of the class which I did great on, and the rest were all ATI capstone.

With ATI we were graded on score range, example if you scored between 72%-100% you received 60 points 60%-71% gets 30 points anything 60% or lower you received only 10 points. With that grading scale practically the whole class was failing.

We were using HESI for 1 3/4 of the program and they switched it to ATI in our previous class where we just focused on community, so to be graded on ATI so heavily was unfair, the class was only 7 weeks, and were expected to remediate and learn all of ATI concepts within that time frame.

The test that ultimately caused me to fail the class was our final that was all or nothing, if you didn't receive a 60% or higher on all sub scales you received a 0, those who got 60% or higher on all sub scales received 50 points.

Basically no one hit the 60% or higher on every single sub scale. Majority of the whole cohort fail, so we decided to fight it, ultimately they only granted students who received a 72% or higher overall received the 50 points, which didn't help me, I received lower than a 72%. It was found that other campuses who were taking the class the same time as us received their full 50 points if they received a 60% or higher overall on the exam. Which I received higher than 60% overall.

Ultimately I feel like this is unfair, no it is unfair. Basically if I was at another campus I would've passed the class. I've never failed a course before, was on the honor roll last semester and I receive majority A's and B's.

At this point I don't know what to do I was suppose to graduate in March now because classses are offered basically once a year, it will be pushed back to August. Any advice??...

[203bravo, MSN, APRN]

Chamberlain has a student handbook that has a grade appeal process, you need to follow that process as any first step. But fair warning that if your main and/or only argument is going to be "But Chamberlain XXX campus doesn't require this..." then be prepared to lose the appeal.

Also, as I recall, Chamberlain is a for profit investor owned school so I would expect that they will have the view that that extra semester of fees from having you repeat the course would be in their best business interest.

Best of luck to you.