Please bare with me as i explain this, I need all the insight I can get. I've been accepted into a Respiratory therapy program scheduled to start in the Spring. The school is in another state (in the midwest) and I'm in NY.
Let me just say the school IS accredited under CoArC. They have a full time "in-person" track for those who live nearby and a part time "online" track for those who live in other states like myself. I'm enrolled for the online track. Lecture and lab will be online but the catch is we have find our own clinical site (clinicals don't begin until Jan 2022).
Luckily I already work for a NY hospital. I spoke with the Respiratory Therapy supervisor at my hospital and he is on board, he's willing to help with my clinicals.
My program's director told me they've had difficulty securing clinical sites in NY in the past but the fact that I already work for a hospital "helps immensely"
Then the program's clinical coordinator tells me that they've had "great success securing clinical sites in other states but NY is a little difficult due to the Education dept's strict guidelines for out-of-state schools" and "we don't have an affiliate agreement signed with your clinical site yet but hopefully it will be signed by February 1st"..
Mind you, first semester begins Jan 11th. They said if its not signed by that time, i can either *try* to find another site before 2022, go to one they're affiliated with (which won't be in NY), or drop the program.
This puts me in a really tight spot... Because I'm glad to "get into" one of these programs, because that's one of the hardest parts, getting in. But on the other hand, i don't want to waste studying my first year in RT school only to find i can't complete my second/final year due to not being able to find a clinical site.
*Maybe* it works out and gets signed.. This is really up in the air and i don't know what to do.
I would go to a school in NY but it's not that simple. I have two preferable options:
- BMCC - im on the waitlist for Fall 2021... waitlist does not mean *accepted*...
2) Nassau community college - application is currently open but program doesn't start til Fall 2021. I also have to interview for this.
Thats really it. Everything else near me sucks, either too far away or too expensive.
Any advice on what I should do? Should i take the risk and stay in this program, hoping my clinical site will be secured? Or drop it now and risk applying to nearby schools and the possibility of not getting in?
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