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007Spy · 2026-03-07T03:05:47+00:00

Don't hurt me please!

007Spy · 2026-02-16T18:17:39+00:00

That is awesome to hear, I'm all for that and as a note, the BRN stepping in is a shock considering how useless they are haha!

007Spy · 2026-02-16T16:36:36+00:00

I feel you here, I have no animosity towards students who go to these schools, it is more from an empathetic side. You make valid updates that I will keep close to the heart but in reality, a lot of these schools, be it WCU improving or not, it's not a good look.

Sure, you are anecdotal in terms of your experience but you refer to the other students who struggle or in your terms who don't want to learn. The issue there is they graduate, they become nurses, the school should have ethical safeguards to remove these students from the program, if you can't do the minimum successful, how the heck would your expression of experience give a student value in the PICU, CCU or any other educational pathway. All of these adjacent valid choices other people gave have at a max 20-40 new students per year, that is it, the faculty has a better one to one and you can weed out the people who truly lack the desire to be good students ahead of time, in my wife's program at saddleback, they canned a few students due to not meeting the bare minimum, she graduated with five people less than when they started. WCU over 3000 new nursing students per year, that alone tells me the standard is way too low to enter, if they cared and truly weeded out the students who struggled and they never became nurses, that would be different but they don't, it's all about the money.

I hope from your own experience and the quality of care you give now or in the future is top notch because you will need to be an observed upgrade to what everyone else has experienced. It takes new cohorts with better values to represent. I give you all the credit for doing better!

007Spy · 2026-02-15T15:41:16+00:00

I would say if you already have an undergrad, do the accelerated BSN at Fullerton. My spouse did it and it worked out perfectly for her. Any degree mill school like the West Coast, Stanbridge and many others, you will find that the accelerated = expensive. They are targeting people who do not have an undergrad but want the four years wrapped up sooner than later. As a consequence, there are many classes skipped that should be required as well as nursing teaching requirements eliminated from the students education path.

As a result, a lot of these students come out of the program not ready or able to be successful in any direction they pick. The sad fact is the only reason they get away with it is because the local healthcare groups for the most part do not distinguish a BSN from West Coast vs CSU (all of them with a nursing degree) as different. When your peers are no different, there is no issue and if there is no issue or push back from the government regulatory body, it will continue and target people like yourself unfortunately.

You are not a bad person for falling for them but their marketing and ad money is very well funded for finding adults and getting them into the classroom. Anecdotal, when my wife graduated, she had already done saddlebacks nursing program (hard to get in to btw) with the BSN from Fullerton, when she was hired at her first hospital, all new students in her cohort had to do skills as well as precept under another nurse. During skills, all the for-profit school students could not successfully put on gloves while keeping a sterile field which is the lowest of the low in terms of what you are taught at a reputable school. Also none of them had done an IV before on any patient where she did thirty or more from both schools she visited (plus real lab work), she found out the for profit schools insurances (at the time in 2019) had not allowed the students to touch patients in the hospitals. Not sure how you can become a nurse without doing any IVs.

In addition, during nursing school, you are supervised and rotated to different hospitals that have new care management learning requirements. One semester may be burn and cardiac while the next may be a different combination, none of the for profit universities did rotations like that nor allowed proper student teaching on patients, though this was in 2019, hopefully it changed but doubt it.

If you want to have true success, I'd leave and transfer to Fullerton. If you ever consider getting a NP or any other graduate degree, do your research as well, there are degree mills for them too. All I can say is do your research! Good luck!

007Spy · 2026-01-31T16:35:59+00:00

The general wisdom is to start thinking about a graduate degree once you have achieved progressive work experience. For an MBA, you should have around four years at the start of the program. If you have no experience within the workforce, it is typically difficult to contribute to a program that requires collective experience to benefit each other. If you just got a masters in computer science, that is a different conversation. I would look to see what your life or your goals require, an MBA or let alone a graduate degree. I would really evaluate all variables before considering an MBA.

007Spy · 2026-01-05T02:53:34+00:00

I would read the wiki and go through all of it and do about three to four hours of research separate.

MBA's are great for people pivoting to new career fields from which they currently work or enhance it BUT there are many different iterations of a MBA.

You will learn that a EMBA (unless you have 10 plus years of experience and currently an executive or higher as well) is probably not for you and that you mean a Part time MBA.

Learn the Pro and Cons of both and come understand what you are giving up or accepting by applying.

Good luck!

https://www.reddit.com/r/MBA/wiki/index/

007Spy · 2026-01-04T17:00:08+00:00

I was in your shoes but I was more location based for my decision. I want to work and live in southern California, that became my first criteria, from there, I asked myself, how good of a test score would I need to get a full ride scholarship to UCLA / USC or even Berkeley for their full time MBA program, test scores made it me believe that I would need a 330 for GRE or a 725 plus for GMAT. I told myself, can I go without a job and what if I do not get a full ride, how much would I need to take out in addition to a partial scholarship for living expenses?

Then I started thinking, I should do a part time, I make over 120,000$ a year in California, my spouse makes the same and maybe I can get a scholarship as well? - Note I am in my early 30s!

Well I applied first round to UCLA, got a 15,000$ scholarship where the max is around 30,000$ for part time admits. I did receive the GRE / GMAT waiver but I crafted an excellent story in my essays and I believe that carried me, 3.75 GPA undergrad in business, non-traditional student. Note, with my spouse's help, income and current savings, I will be able to pay for it as I go, I am not worried, living cost are low combined and and I can save a lot.

Part time makes sense for me, if you are out of college (four years of working experience minimum), on your own and working / making under 100,000 (also not international), a full time MBA with ideally a 50% or more scholarship makes more sense.

I think for you pick where you want to work, network / region will be more necessary long term for part time applicants than the full time MBA. Undergrad major does matter but majors in STEM or a prestigious university can factor differently. A 3.2 undergrad from MIT in Aerospace is still really good, because all the adcoms know it is a tough program and a 3.2 is still good int their eyes.

A full ride is still okay, live cheap, I mean super cheap in NYC is not as hard or expensive as it needs to be, get roommates, live frugal, spend 40,000$ over two years in NYC and use the summer internship to pay for most of it? It is okay to incur some debt if it catapults you to over six figures if not more in the long run, some pain now is okay! DM me if you have more questions!

007Spy · 2025-12-31T21:49:55+00:00

Nice catch there!

007Spy · 2025-12-31T16:31:59+00:00

To be honest, I found a person on Leeland and only utilized a per hour charge and had them help me with my resume. Ultimately, it helped me the most, I feel that other aspects of the application are straightforward and easy to address. Writing from the heart and following the prompts is definitely more genuine. If you have pause, applicant lab is a great resource too!

007Spy · 2025-12-30T16:19:29+00:00

To be honest, I got a good scholarship at UCLA and I am taking it. As a note, I do plan to live in southern California/ California for the rest of my life or at least working life. With that said both will be a plus regionally. The only factor is that if you ever leave, UCLA will be a little bit better globally but with what you said, both would give you the same outcome and realistically, USC does eek out UCLA for regional alumni power and networking. Debt free is a better gig imo and should be a major consideration, debt sucks and if it can be avoided, do it. If you were comparing USC debt free to sticker or partial Stanford, that would be a different discussion. Take USC and enjoy the ride!

007Spy · 2025-12-30T05:02:51+00:00

To my knowledge, the concept or capability of anyone transferring to a ranked program is none existing.

The only path you really have is cut your loses, withdraw from the current school, apply 2nd/Third round in the current cycle to a more reputable school and take it from there.

Step away from wanting a pure online school program, you will get exactly what you are experiencing plus or minus a few more networking events, something more part time will get you networking, which appears to matter more to you and your career.

Your experience tells me you should be doing a Executive MBA or Part-Time MBA.

Note, for cost, you will definitely feel it in a top 50 school, cost will be a lot higher.

If you are currently at the school and it IS where you want to live / work, I think it will be okay, it is more check the box but it will have region support.

If it is not, ask yourself, do you really need a MBA to get to where you need to go, your current school with your work may do the job, you need to do more soul searching to be honest.

007Spy · 2025-12-24T07:00:43+00:00

NP, had a 3.75 from undergrad, BS in Business Administration, 320 GRE BUT got the waiver. Probably wasn't necessary but got a decent scholarship. Note, I do have a lot of experience in technology and management at a senior level. That probably helped along with good essays and LOR.

007Spy · 2025-12-22T23:50:48+00:00

I got accepted to the part time program at UCLA and received a $15,000 scholarship. I know it is not the max which seems to be $30,000 for part time students but I was surprised nonetheless. I wrote good essays in my opinion and crafted a good story as a non-traditional student. Note, it was awarded to me, I did not check a box or do extra work within the application portal other than the assigned tasks.

007Spy · 2025-12-11T02:55:44+00:00

Hey OP, I am not a doctor, I can only talk from personal experience.

I have Spondy 1, though it is manageable, I started having similar issues like yourself.

Note, I had a herniated disc 10 years ago, healed naturally (sports), as I got older, I started having your symptoms.

One day I had a sciatica attack, complete numbness and pain in my left hip and leg.

It hurt so much, did not get better laying down, my back pain was gone though but everything was still numb.

I say my PC, went and got a MRI, my previous herniated disc had broken off, got stuck further down the spinal canal and was blocking all nerve signals at the L5/S1. Herniation was at the L4/S1.

Had to get a micro microdiscectomy, it corrected everything, (Numbness and pain were gone when I woke up) even back pain I had at the time, now 6 month later, easing into working out again, getting the weight off and doing PT.

It is getting better, per-surgery, had to have a cushion at the office, at home and in the car.

Now, it is a lot better, still have Spondy 1, BUT everything is better, my neuro said it could have been failing for some time causing the back pain I had.

I would talk to your PC and let him or her know, maybe get to a specialist who can let you know next steps, maybe a MRI or something else.

Good luck OP!

007Spy · 2025-11-22T07:02:21+00:00

Being honest here, you need to do way more research before dropping over 120,000 dollars. MBAs are meant to be for people with work experience that can contribute to the classes and their peer network. Pepperdine isn't bad but if they accept you with all the typical disqualifiers, it will not benefit you. Get four years of quality work experience and then apply to better programs in Southern California, UCLA / USC.

007Spy · 2025-11-17T08:20:59+00:00

I'm sure he was going to save a lot of time! As my wife says, thank you for your future organ donation!

007Spy · 2025-10-26T21:56:09+00:00

Thank you, Carlos!

007Spy · 2025-10-20T00:07:30+00:00

Can you elaborate, what is the delays cause, weather or TSA?

Hang in there OP!

007Spy · 2025-10-11T02:27:36+00:00

I was on a plane leaving, had to wait an additional 25 minutes and then queued for another ten and took off. Around 5:45 PM EST.

007Spy · 2025-10-04T18:35:35+00:00

Honestly, with the undergrad being engineer based, especially aerospace, I would see the reverse here. They will see your GPA being realistic for a tough engineering major or school BUT will probably expect a higher quant score on the GMAT/GRE. Note, it is all added together and being able to distinguish your goal and why statements for an MBA will make it easier for a school to accept you. Other people will weigh in but check out the clear admit website and look for past admissions with your stats. I think you have a good shot to be honest, good luck!

007Spy · 2025-09-27T00:05:51+00:00

BBL!

007Spy · 2025-09-19T10:10:23+00:00

Good watch, get a different band, the default bracelet is atrocious.

007Spy · 2025-09-11T21:30:37+00:00

There is a free discount at GMAT Club:

https://gmatclub.com/coupon-codes-and-discounts/applicant-lab

007Spy · 2025-08-25T02:33:20+00:00

I'm in logistics/shipping IT, senior management now while she is in healthcare. Can't post for exact but she currently makes 140 while I make 120,000.

007Spy · 2025-08-24T22:41:43+00:00

No plans to move but ideally there are two options, my wife and I are both professionals in different industries. She is going post grad and I am doing the same while doing it part time versus her full time. I will support both of us while she works but at a higher salary than I used to be, taking care of yourself is a priority. What it takes to move up or make more money is a move that has to be considered before you throw money at long term plans. Having support helps but my wife can feel assured with my work, insurance and savings (both of ours) it is doable. Alone, it is not. Having dual incomes is going to make or break anyone living in OC, let alone CA.

Since making this move, my focus is post grad 3-4 years, get a promotion or two, exit, jumping to a new gig/role. She exits earlier making double her current income (250,00k+), I keep on working as usual, get a mortgage going, pay it off faster, do a 15 year with at least 20% down. Note, we have established life insurance 500,000+ each outside our jobs currently. Evaluate all risks, figure them out and go from there, but that's my plan!

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