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The nursing program is a joke. Don't be fooled by the sparkles of the new health science building, and the "Center of Excellence" designation. I spent a semester here, and had the worst semester of my life dealing with negative professors treating us like elementary kids! The skills test grading was purely subjective! Just because you turn in your work... does not mean you will get a grade. I've had professors lose my work, then call me a liar during a meeting with her and the level coordinator (Duran) while listening to them tell me how I'm irresponsible, then turn around days later, find my work, then not apologize!!! Check your work. Most likely you got another student's work back by accident. Integrity?!?! Forget about it! The Dean and the Provost completely dismissed our issues (yes more than one student, and issue). If you have a second choice... do yourself a HUGE favor, go somewhere else!!! My positive and exciting time in my life turned into a living hell in this one semester!!! I am transferring to a bachelor program, and refuse to go back.

EDIT: It’s amazing not a single person from Collin College reached out to me after this review. I am still haunted by this horrific experience, now, 8 years later. It frustrates me that I did not stand up for myself or brought this case to an attorney as I was told to do by multiple people. One thing I felt I needed to explain is their fail point system. In the skills tests you have specific fail points that you had to demonstrate that you mastered. If you miss one fail point, you fail the test altogether. You have three chances to pass the test until you’re removed from the program. Specifically for me it was the wound dressing test. My first test, I failed it fairly. I forgot to wash my hands when I entered the patient room. Understandable that I needed to retake the test. I retake the test, and apparently the professor who was grading our tests had just gotten back from vacation, watched two or three of our videos, who failed, then out of frustration failed the rest of us! I have no clue if that is true but that is what was told to me by another student who failed. We were not told what our fail point was and we were not allowed to watch our videos that we recorded so there was no way for us to contest it or confirm it. The third test was scheduled for about 14-16 of us. Before the last test we were all given an opportunity to practice and to work with our professors in the skills lab as a group to prepare for the last test. After practicing with the professors we were all standing in the lab when waiting together for instructions to start our last skills test for wound dressing. Professor Duran with her assistant then pointed to 5 students and dismissed them from the testing environment and said, “You, you, you, you and you can leave. You already passed your test.” Confused, those 5 students looked at us then grabbed their things and left. With our eyebrows raised in confusion and suspicion we were told to stay quiet. How were they dismissed from a testing environment that was “required” of us all to stay in the program?!?! How did they complete their test without even knowing they tested?!?! How did they take the test when we haven’t started the testing yet?!?!? Scared, the rest of us complete our tests. You want to know what failed me?!?! A hole in my glove on the far right side of my right ring finger that was out of sight. It was NOT a fail point on the test!!!! I struggled a little getting my gloves on with hand sanitizer freshly on my hands from “washing in” but I stayed calm, kept my hands between my waist and nipple line to stay sterile as they explained the moved on with my skill. THEY FAILED ME FOR A NON FAIL POINT!!! That couldn’t be a coaching opportunity since, you know, it’s nursing school?!?! I hope they all got fired!!! Get this: my next skills partner passed with a 98 even though her gloves touched her scrubs and she lifted her hands above her head. That was actually a fail point, but she made a near perfect score. That’s scary… she’s...

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9/2/2020 I will try and shorten this post but if you want to be an ASL interpreter, do not go to Collin. I was in the program for one year and an A student. I had problems with administration not listening to my concerns such as a teacher who had excessive class cancellations, a teacher not grading my work for months, and not being properly prepared for classes that build on one another because there seems to be no teacher accountability for what is taught or how things are graded. Homework assignments changed last minute after the original completed. The Dean told me when I applied that 60% of their students pass the BEI but that is not true when a professor told our class that 3 out of 30 something passed. I was also told there was an assessment every student has to pass to move into the second year. None of us took it nor was it ever mentioned. Maybe because they knew we wouldn't pass it? There were definitely people in the upper classes that I thought "how did they pass to get here?" Are they just taking money and passing students and not caring if they can actually pass the BEI and have a career in interpreting? Well that's how I feel. I am now moving to Tarrant County College and hope I will be more prepared for the career I want. Just to mention my wife and I both have degrees from universities and have NEVER seen such disorganization and lack of response to valid concerns. Honestly, the cashiers office was more sympathetic to my problems than the people in charge of the Interpreting program. Other classmates are leaving too. Many others want to but are stuck because of financial aid, grants and scholarships. Many other issues... one more that takes the cake is that I have a leg disability. My leg brace broke and I had to be on crutches. I can't carry books on crutches so I called the school to see if they could provide assistance for me to get to class. The person who I spoke with at the Accessibility office said I had to fill out paperwork and have them process it and they couldn't provide any help. I just needed someone to carry my books to class. I had to miss class because they couldn't help! I also had required books listed for classes but after class started found out we didn't need some books and needed others. It happened more than once and I was out the money I spent on the books I didn't really need. Again no sympathy or response from the folks in charge. I even copied upper leadership on an email about many issues and no response to me from them, nothing. So save your time and just begin Interpreting at Tarrant County College. I at least hope the issues are none like what I had at Collin. If you stayed until the end of reading this, thank you and I hope it helped you make up your mind about...

I assume most people go to college to find a good job. If so, then you would expect the place that offers the training to train and prepare you for said job. It's not exactly like that at Collin College.

I speak for the IT department mostly, which is at the Frisco campus. The McKinney campus however, has done a decent job when it came to general education classes i.e. Math, English, History. It helps that the campus offers tutoring for GenEd classes in designated rooms such as the math lab or the writing center. Unfortunately, there is no tutoring for IT classes. Some electives are considered by many as "free credits" but if you are serious about your education, it is possible to actually learn something from these electives if you do the work and engage the instructors.

Now, for the IT classes...you might as well teach yourself. This is essentially what you're doing anyway at Collin College, ESPECIALLY if your classes are 100% online. My experience has been that a professor assigns a textbook and has the textbook do all of the teaching, which might make you ask "why do I need to pay for a class or professor to learn this?" If you choose to do an IT program at Collin College, I highly recommend learning as much as you can about the subject BEFORE taking a class. You will be doing that anyway during the class except if you learn what you can before taking a class, you wont be rushed and you wont risk losing out on tuition money. I don't believe I'm too far off by saying that the class is to test you only and not to teach you.

Overall, I would recommend Collin College as a stepping stone to a university BUT be prepared to fly solo most of the time. If you are able to find assistance from the faculty, consider yourself lucky. If anything, this college is a trial to test your...