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I wish I'd known more about better ways to finance college tuition. Being the first in the family attending college, I was pretty much left on my own to get ready for college & unfamiliar with the FAFSA & applying for scholarships, bringing my family & I a great deal of stress as the year progressed. I think it would be EXTREMELY helpful & beneficial to students if high school help seminars demonstrating how/where to apply for scholarships & the best way to fill out the FAFSA correctly so students aren't left to figure it out on their own like i was.

After freshman year you do not have a summer vacation. We have 10 week quarters and after freshman year you are either in classes or at an internship. It's hard to get the "real" college experience when Drexel is on such a weird schedule.

Nothing, I was very prepared for this school.

The importance of maintaining contacts from high school.

The school operates on a tri-mester system, which makes it extremly difficult to adjust to. The pace at which academic information is presented is super accelerated. I wish i realized this my first year, i would not have made certain mistakes. Time amanagement skills is definitely one of the requirements at this school!

That there would be many administrative hoops to jump through.

I attended Drexel University for their 11 month accelerated nursing program. I had a previous bachelors degree from the University of PIttsburgh. I wish I had known that Drexel requires its nursing students to take the NCLEX practice exam, the HESI in order to graduate. They require an 87{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} on the HESI exam to be eligable for graduation. Although I passed, approximately 30 of my classmates did not and have yet to receive their diplomas. Some have even been told to consider other careers. Meaning, their passing classes has nothing to do with completing the program. Despicable.

I wish I would have known the importance of attending accepted new student days and orientations. Once I got accepted, I sent them my deposit and that was that. I really should have taken more chances to get to know all the services available and get myself better oriented with the campus. I would have also liked to have known about summer programs available for students in my particular college and realized I could have gotten more involved with the College of Engineering sooner and made major contributions to the college.

I wish I'd known how hard it is to stay involved on campus because of the co-op program. I also wish I'd realized that it is really hard to get Drexel students engaged in activities such as volunteering, or environmental and political activities.