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One email a month, and it is mostly warnings
Tuition changes, format terms change, and accreditation cycles turn. Most of that goes unannounced to anyone who has not enrolled yet. This is the list that tells you when a figure on this site stops being true.
What actually goes in it
- When a published figure moves. Per-session tuition, per-credit rates, transfer allowances. We restate Capella's terms on this site, and when they change you should know before you budget against the old ones.
- What we are seeing on placement. Which states have tightened, where preceptor supply has thinned, which specialisations are getting harder to place. This is the part you cannot get anywhere else.
- One trap per issue. A specific, avoidable mistake that cost somebody a term that month — the credit that was never assessed, the format chosen before the assessment, the practicum search that started in year two.
- Corrections. When we get something wrong on this site, it goes in the email as well as on the page.
What does not go in it
Nothing about our services. No offers, no discounts, no "last chance to enrol". There is nothing to sell you here — the consultation is free and we are not paid when you enrol anywhere.
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Who it is for
Nurses who are three to twelve months from deciding. If you are enrolling next week the free consultation is a better use of your time; if you are still working out whether to do this at all, the monthly note keeps you current without any effort.
A recent issue, in summary
So you know what you are signing up for rather than guessing.
The figure that moved
Capella's published per-session band for nursing sits around $2,400 to $3,500. We model the midpoint rather than the floor, because the floor is the number the marketing quotes and a budget has to survive being wrong.
What we saw on placement
Psychiatric-mental health preceptors remain the hardest to secure in dense metro areas, where every online program in the region is approaching the same clinics in the same term.
The trap
Choosing a format before having transfer credit assessed. GuidedPath counts 135 quarter credits; FlexPath counts 68 of 90 points. They are not comparable, and picking first is the most expensive avoidable error at this school.
The correction
We had written that a Capella transcript carries a GPA. FlexPath does not use letter grades at all — it scores four competency levels. Corrected across the site, and it changes which format a nurse heading for a doctorate should choose.