Brightpoint Community College — Local services in Chester

A decent and affordable community college. There are two campuses (Chester and Midlothian), so it is convenient for students who live in both of these areas to commute. I was a dual-enrollment student at BCC (originally called John Tyler). I don't necessarily have an issue with them changing the name, but it seemed like a random decision. While I totally understood the reasoning behind the decision, people often get confused whenever I refer this college to them.

When I came to BCC, I had the intentions of becoming an RN. I was able to complete my pre-req's, take the TEAS Test, and sign up for the program smoothly.

I absolutely dislike the nursing program. I left the program because there was a lack of emotional support for students; I was going through a crisis in my life because of the pressures of being successful and passing the classes. I suffered from atopic dermatitis and had a terrible itchy rash on my hand, so I stayed up throughout the night scratching it while studying. I also had panic attacks whenever I attended clinicals. I tried to explain this to one of the nursing professors, but she brushed me off and told me that she will fail me if I ever express any signs of distress again while doing community service. They don't necessarily make the program interesting or fun for students, they just put a bunch of rules and regulations on your life. Some of the nursing professors humiliated students while they were doing practicals or simulations; one of the professors even threaten to fail me during my sterile catheterization exam if I didn't 'cheer up' about my low score. I don't know if they still have it like this, but if you get five questions wrong on the weekly exams, you fail it - so it's easy to fail those classes, even as a smart student. It is actually ironic because the professors would often make a bunch of technical mistakes on the exams and copy-and-paste the questions. An unserious group.

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Affordable, good selection of courses, and great professors who cares about their students. The only thing I want to complain is that there was one guy I made appointment with to talk about transferring. He was putting no effort whatseoever to talk with me and sounded discouraging, condescending when I told him my goal was to transfer to The College of W&M and UVA. I understand that he was trying to warn me that those are competitive schools but because of him I was doubting myself insanely despite having a very high GPA and other experiences. And the only thing he had to say that it would be hard for me to get in and no other advising. I just decided to leave because I figured that he did not want to helo me. Well.. despite what he said, I did end up getting accepted into both. Many students goal is to transfer after Community College so I hope they correct advisors like...

It's a good college at a fair location. Keep in mind that this is a community college and not a four year college. It isn't going to carry the same weight as a true four year college, both with the degrees that it provides and the teaching level administered. The college is clean enough and they are doing some work to being up some of the buildings more to standard. The Midlothian campus is better, but this one presents a prime location being directly off the highway.

They have several computer labs and every teacher I've had has been fair and engaged with students to an acceptable degree (academically). The VA expert nice woman who knows her job well. As a veteran she helped me and my roommate out greatly with setting up the GI Bill and she did all our paperwork quickly and...