<p>A year ago, my wife enrolled in nursing school. As the nursing school has 5 “nursing practicum” courses, that must be taken one after another, she was told the program would take 2 1/2 years to complete. However, when she went to register for courses, one of the co-requisites for the current pracitcum course was full. She went to see the registrar, and was told that nothing could be done. She will have to wait until spring of 2010, when the course is offered again. This will postpone her graduation date by a full year.</p>
<p>This isn’t right. They told her that if she enrolled in their school, she would have her degree in 2 1/2 years. Now they want to change the rules in the middle of the game because they are too cheap to offer a second section of the required course. What can we do?</p>
<p>At my school, you can talk to the professor of the full class and sometimes they will approve adding you. The professor just e-mails our registrar and tells him to put the student in the class. While this doesn’t always work, if you have a decent reason, i.e. needing the class that semester to graduate on time, he/she usually oks it. All that said, I go to a small LAC, so the procedure may be vastly different.</p>
<p>I hope things work out for her!</p>
<p>I doubt that will work. The registrar told her that the demand for the nursing pre-requisites always exceeds the number of slots available. It seems that, as long as most students can register, it is routine for them to leave a few stuck in limbo.</p>
<p>Of course, when the students enroll, they have no way of knowing that, so it is as if the school is renegging on a promise to them e.g. “come here and have a nursing degree in 2 1/2 years” but then they don’t do everything within their power to fulfil that promise. </p>
<p>What can we do to make sure she gets what was promised to her, and also to keep the school from making the same false promise to future students?</p>
<p>has she spoken to the dean? at my school, the deans are the ones who handle that sort of stuff. and she has to adamant about the fact that they made a promise to her when she first started that she could graduate in x amount of years and that she’s done nothing on her part to deviate from that plan. At my school, none of the deans would allow that. If a student needs to graduate, they put that student in the class. I hope it works out. A year is a long time to wait especially if she was hoping to get her degree/certification in order to get a job. I wonder if a promise was made by the school, can she sue the school for failing to keep their end of the bargain? under what grounds? well i’m not the lawyer. just food for thought.</p>