UTICA ACCELERATED

[pike2012]

Hi guys,

I am in the middle of finishing up my prerequisites for accelerated nursing school and I was wondering if anyone has any experience with Utica in New York? I spoke with the recruiter and she was wonderful. I was told that 94 percent of first time test takers pass the boards. I have been reading some reviews online from when the program first started and they were pretty bad. I was wondering if the program was any better now?

[jm42]

Hey, I'm in the program now and honestly what I learned during my application process and since I've been in the program is that the people who post reviews online seem to always be the ones who are pissed off about something. The people who are happy, or even just mediocre and not full of hatred, are too busy doing other things to spend time complaining in online posts. Honestly, the program is tough and time consuming, but that's expected of any accelerated program. Is the program perfect? Absolutely not. But I have many friends who went to other schools for other accelerated programs, and everyone has the same complaints no matter where they seem to go. No school is perfect, and no program can make every student happy about every single piece of the process. In my opinion a lot of what you take out of the program depends on your own attitude. If you go in looking for things to be unhappy with, you'll find a plethora of them. But if you come to a problem and address it in a good way it doesn't usually become a big deal. Some things can't be fixed and I'm still not happy with, but overall I've had more good experiences than bad and I think that's all I can ask for at this point.