<p>I’m a bit confused. Is the current HS student looking at nursing? If so, they want to look at schools with a high rate of passing on the licensing exam. And good job placement. A nursing student also wants to know where they will be doing their practical rotations. </p>
<p>1) If most students live off campus after the first or second year, how do they get to campus? How is the parking situation? Where do the buses pick up and how often do they come? How do students get around when the mercury drops and biking becomes dangerous?</p>
<p>2) If the majority of parties are off campus, is there a way for students to get back to campus without having to rely on a possibly intoxicated DD to get them back safely? </p>
<p>3) Don’t believe the BS about a dry campus unless it’s a heavily religious college, a la BYU or Anderson.</p>
<p>4) How much writing is expected in the average gen ed course?</p>
<p>5) What steps is the university taking, if any, to improve its graduation rate? This question is more applicable to schools like the University of Oklahoma, CSU Fullerton, and College of Wooster and less to institutions like Harvard or Duke where very few students drop out or transfer.</p>
<p>6) Ask the guide or another student to list three things s/he would change about the school.</p>
<p>Read their student-run publications, particularly independent ones, to see how students really feel about their colleges. For example, I ruled out Columbia when I repeatedly found flaming/rude/hurtful comments on their student newspapers (which didn’t occur nearly as much on other colleges’) </p>
<p>These are some of the best ideas for. He king out a college I’ve read.</p>
<p>Sorry, I was posting from my phone and accidentally hit post before correcting my typos and now I can’t figure out how to edit my last post.</p>
<pre><code>Thank you for the fantastic ideas. I’ve already spent several hours researching two of the colleges in light of several factors you’all brought up.
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<p>To clarify, she has one year of prerequisites to finish before applying to nursing school. Ideally, she would attend a college where she got a good scholarship starting out as a freshmen that she could continue through nursing school. To maximize that possibility, she would go to a college where she would have a good chance of being admitted to the nursing school. So far, a college which meets all those criteria with the problems her sister had screened out doesn’t seem to be appearing. One college I was hopeful for doesn’t have much choice of professors or class times for her prerequisites, which I found out in my research this evening by following some of the advice on here. It may be better for her to forego scholarships and attend a college she can afford without them and have more class choices. </p>
<p>CC has an active forum for nursing programs under “majors”, but most of the discussion has been about direct entry programs. With 2-2 nursing programs, it would be extremely helpful to know about the difficulty of admission into the major. At some universities (particularly some public flagships), it can be extremely difficult. </p>