Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing — Local services in New York

So much for “more nurses needed” in todays society. The painstaking and mentally exhausting process of simply just wanting to get into the program was enough to deter me from the entire program in general. 100 seats available made to a pool of applicants with the same entry-exam score and GPA (I heard just over 700 applicants). This isn’t premed or CRNA school. This isn’t even a physician assistant program. To enforce exhaustive and cumbersome requirements for a NURSING program in the name of prestige, including having students take a organic chemistry course to weed them out in their second semester, is awful and unnecessary. The nursing advisors are virtually obsolete and are hard to reach, although I was able to get into contact with one who was sweet and actually cared (props to you!) Don’t waste your time here unless you’re in it for the name, not the actual field of nursing. Don’t waste your time if you want to compete with 700 students (a lot of whom cheated via online courses). You’ll just end up not getting accepted and will likely end up spending more money and an extra year of your life transferring to another nursing program or staying in Hunter and doing an extra year of accelerated. If you do get accepted, congrats. Good luck.

PS: I wouldn’t be surprised if many students changed their entire life goal and career prospects based on the experience of having to deal with simply attempting in getting into such a limited and...

Can't speak for the college as I'm not a student there, just a summer resident while interning in the city. Couldn't believe how cheap it was to stay here in a decent location in Manhattan. Now I know. The dorm facilities are awful. First of all, all the water fountains were broken for the first six weeks of my ten week stay (during the summer, when it's 90+ degrees and there's no A/C), and the WiFi, that you pay $40 extra for, is useless in most places in the building. Today I found a large, living cockroach in the shower with me because the bathroom facilities haven't been cleaned in so long that there is actual mold accumulating across the floors and shower curtains. Add that to the rat traps which have been surreptitiously placed all over the third floor and you have a suggestion of the conditions one lives in at Brookdale. Rooms aren't bad but like I said, there's no A/C and you'll need decorations to hide the peeling walls and dirty floors.

Add to that a largely rude team of security and you realize why you only paid $1800 to live in Manhattan for three months. I filed a complaint about one when he was terribly rude and obnoxious to a guest of mine to the extent where he made them cry, and on my next visit, another member of staff made a sarcastic comment about my report. Everytime I come back I can't wait to leave again. Unclean, unsafe,...

Very tough nursing school to get into and even tougher to complete. It is the flagship program of CUNY and is equivalent to UPenn, NYU and the best of them. When you graduate, you...