Everest Institute

I enrolled in the electric program at this school after I met with an administrator and they gave me a tour of the school, showing me all the good things and promising me hands-on learning and great instructors. The first day, we didn't have an instructor so it was this guy from electronics just there talking about the school and how great it is. The second day, same thing and this went for a month and whenever we ask when are we going to start, they tell us that they found a master electrician who was going to be our teacher. After a month of lying to us, I went trying to cancel my enrollment and student loan and they told me that it's too late because I passed the 30 days I had to cancel.

Anyway, after a month and a half, we had this instructor that wasn't a master electrician or I think he had never been to school and he is not even qualified to teach. He doesn't know anything when we ask him questions from the book. The only thing we were doing for about a month was he always tell us to read the book and answer the questions. Where is the hands-on learning, the practice, the professional instructors?

After one semester passed, I decided to quit because I was just spending my time and not learning anything. Now, I have a student loan I have to pay and the school is asking me to pay $1600 to them because of some expenses my student loan and financial aid didn't cover even if I was paying $55 every month from my pocket when I was enrolled. This is a big scam school using poor people's hope and enrolling them in program promising lies just to get their social securities and apply for financial aid and student loans.

I am currently enrolled in the Everest Institute Medical Assisting Program located in Chelsea, Massachusetts. To begin the program, I was given a wonderful instructor. I was then switched into a woman's class who refused to lecture or answer any question that was not directly related to the test. She refused to instruct or oversee phlebotomy exercises. She refused to collect homework or computer work required by the school to complete. When handing in our monthly essay that is due, she threw mine in the trash because it was more than five pages and she wouldn't waste her time. I went from a 4.0 94 average grade to failing in her class. She tried to take personal property and when I would not hand over my purse, she gave me zeros on my exams. Her grades are purely based on if she likes you as an individual or not. And it took 8 weeks of complaints for the school to even give me the option of changing my class time to get another instructor.

Furthermore, she marked me as absent for almost 40% of my required time to be in class. And when I went to appeal my grade and the absences, she was apparently admitted to the hospital. The school was unwilling to interpret her grading system and refused to take off any of the absences. Despite proof that I was there, because she wasn't available to justify why she marked me absent. And yet since I changed instructors, I've had near perfect attendance and I am back up to a 94 average in my class.

In addition, we were given the new curriculum text book for the medical assistant program. This month or module is what they call Module H Insurance Basics and Claims Processing. In the course of reading this text/work book, I found an extremely offensive and archaic term being used as factual medical terminology. In this textbook, they commonly refer to the mentally and neurologically disabled as "retarded". That is not now, nor has it been for several years, if not decades, an acceptable term for the disabled. I've spoken to the dean, the president, and director of education, all of which at this location seem to have no issue with the term. And state that it's in the textbook then it must be correct.

I do consider myself hyper sensitive to derogatory terms due to the fact that I am a mother of a disabled child. But even without that hypersensitivity, I would be just as offended. In fact, there has been a national campaign for the last decade, if not longer, by the Special Olympics to stop the use of this cruel and hateful term. That again does not reflect any mental disability or disease of any kind. And there is not a single facility in America that would call itself a facility for the "mentally retarded" as the school curriculum states it does.

For a specific reference, the term can be found in the Module H textbook ("Health Insurance Basics and Claims Processing") in chapter 4 ("Understanding Medicaid") on page 115 under the section titled, "Optional Services" and the example is located on the 3rd bullet. There are too many examples of this ignorance to list them all. But even one discriminatory term in a medical textbook portraying it as okay to use in a medical facility is one too many.

I was a student at the Chelsea, MA location for an M.A. program from 2007-2008. I was ''student ambassador'' and supposed ''dean's list'' and ''president's list''. We switched teachers 4 different times within the 7 months I was there as well as a teacher who 75% of the time spoke Spanish with the other students who all spoke English very well. They promise you a great job and gave you all these job leads and nothing. I sent my resume to every hospital, clinic, private offices and nursing homes and no one even so much as called me for an interview because of the ''training''.

There was a student in my class that was kicked out and was allowed back in because they wrote a letter the school made them write. Also, there's another student who kept failing the CPR course and they let her graduate anyway. My externship was originally at Rite Aid pharmacy working the register. What kind of MA experience am I going to get from that?! So I kept calling career services and they placed me in a great place. But after I was done with my ''training'', they apparently have a statement I supposedly made saying that the school was great and I'd recommend it to everyone, which is a lie! I am now on state assistance and food stamps because I cannot find a decent job due to this joke of a school. They are not accredited and certainly not professional. I am now in debt and my credit isn't good because of them. I want them to take care of it.

Everest College in North Aurora scammed me! When I signed up, I was told by the recruiter to just look on career builder or anywhere on the internet and you will find a job. That day, she signed me up telling me there was one spot left. She said the credits will be transferred and the pay was high. I started with an instructor who could not teach. After one month, they took her out of class and said she needed training. Now we had to start over a month's worth of medical billing and coding information. My entire class was horrified because we could not bail out and we heard no one likes to hire from Everest College. I paid $16,000 and the tax payer paid $4,500.00 of it.

All 8 months, I showed up everyday in scrubs and aced all and got a diploma. It has been 2 years. I went through medical office buildings, called hundreds of doctors and hospitals only to be told they would never hire anyone with less than at least two years experience. Everest people said your school time counts and it does not to employers. They never ever called even for an interview. I saw the career counselor for help and it took 10, and she said she would send leads. The leads were everything I saw posted on the internet and she said, "well, this is a partnership you should be looking also". The school had no leads whatsoever.

When I was there, I was disgusted with how many new recruits they suckered in that won't get jobs and will have a loan. I was so excited about this and I have nothing at all except a loan. I am back at my old job starting over because I left to go to school. What a waste. Don't believe the commercials and run. I got my own externship. I want to sue them in a class action suit. If anyone else wants to, contact me. This was 2 years ago and I am still upset. All this to think because of the economy, I would learn a safe career in medical billing and coding...not graduation April 24, 2010

I attended this school back when it was still called Bryman. I was doing really good, then they switched instructors on us three different times in the same course. Talk about confusion! I was not satisfied with the last instructor and was getting nowhere. So I withdrew from the school and now have to pay back the full loan amount that I didn't even use. Big time ripoff!

I started at Everest with all the promises as everyone else. I was told as long as you do well, keep your grades up, you won't have a problem finding a job. Well, I graduated with honors from Everest, found my own extern site and I'm still unemployed. I get so irritated every time I see those commercials because they only show you the people who are successful and happy when there are so many who are unemployed and dissatisfied. They harass you about the loans, but don't make an effort to try and help you get on your feet to find a job and pay the loans back. I went to school to better my life, not to get worse and be more in debt. I'm so disgusted with Everest and how they handle the students that are having a hard time. I feel thrown away.

Start date is 11/16/2009, withdraw date is 12/14/2010. The ledger for Everest shows that I attended 720 hours. I only attended 68 hours. The books and uniforms were returned totaling to $1750. They only gave back $400. All the books were brand new, never opened except one, the CPR book. The school got paid all this money for a student who only went for 17 days. Wow. Now, I owe sub, unsub loans totaling to $5,000-$6,000. I already informed the Department of Education. I attended Everest in Arlington, Texas. They never returned calls. They lost my file then they'd find it. I have been back and forth with Everest since December 2009 until now, 3/15/2012.

I have an extensive criminal history and I wanted to create a new beginning. I kept seeing these commercials on TV from Everest College. I decided to become a Massage Therapist and I went to the school to see if I could become one with my criminal history. I have a copy of my criminal history and I always keep it with me when I go to interviews etc. Earlier, the year before, I had a job with mentally disabled adults and had a background check done by DSHS and because of my criminal history I was let go.

So I went to Everest College and talked to an admissions counselor, who was in fact a licensed massage therapist. I told her that I have an extensive criminal history and I know that it prevents me from doing certain things and I knew that massage therapy is part of the medical health field and I wanted to know if my criminal history would prevent me from becoming a massage therapist. I told her, "You need to look at this copy of my criminal history and tell me if I can get a job as a massage therapist." She tells me, "Oh no, I don't need to look at your criminal history. The school will do a background check and if you pass, you can become and get a job as a massage therapist."

Now I know why she wouldn't look at my criminal history. She didn't want to become liable because she knew what would happen when I went through the process of getting my license. So I signed up for school and I thought I'm really going to have a successful life. I can become a functioning member of society. About 8 months into the training, the school begins. The process of applying for the massage license and when I was interviewed, I was told, "We didn't realize how extensive your criminal history was. You may not be able to get a massage license." I said, "What are you talking about! I told you from the very beginning about my criminal history! I didn't have to take this class. I could have done something else! I could have spent my student loans and become a drug and alcohol counselor."

I was told I had to go to every county and every state to get certified copies of my court transcripts. It took me 3 months and $201.00 plus gas and time to get my court transcripts. I went back to the school and we generated an explanatory letter and submitted the letter and court transcript to the Dept. of Health. On Jul. 28, 2011, I was granted a massage license with restrictions. I was supposed to submit to a urine analysis every month, attend 2 AA or NA meetings a week and attend 1 W.H.P.S. peer support group a week plus 15 units of chemical dependency education for 2 years. I was told I had to pay for this myself. I told the Dept. of Health I couldn't afford to pay all this. Dept. of Health scheduled a court hearing on Nov. 9, 2011 and I presented my case and lost.

After spending $19,000 and a year in school, I can't get a job as a massage therapist because of my background and my massage license has been suspended by the Dept. of Health because I can't afford to pay for the restriction imposed on me. The school and company knew about my past before they approved me to take this course. The school and company knew the problems I would go through before I entered Everest College. The school and company withheld the information I needed to make an informed decision. The admissions counselor that signed me up for the course is a licensed massage therapist. She knows the process to get a massage license. She knew what I would go through to get a massage license and didn't tell me.

If I had known about the problems I would go through to get and keep my license, I would have chosen to do something else. I should have a reasonable expectation to be able to get a job in the field I trained in. Everest College is supposed to be in a trusted position. I assumed that they would put my best interest above anything else. But that's not the case. I was lured in with deception and taken advantage of in the worst possible way. I did not have to take this course. The company I worked for part-time (Pioneer Human Services) was told by King County that anyone involved with therapeutic services, they would help with continuing education to become a drug and alcohol counselor. I could have done that and not have worried about my criminal history being a factor. This is a case of fraud. I need a lawyer to help, but I can't find one to take my case.

Unethical Practice. I did an assignment on the discussion board and the teacher had my name removed from the discussion.

I went to Everest for the Medical Insurance Billing and Coding program in 2008-2009. I was supposed to graduate with honors from Everest. I had excellent grades and worked very hard to try and start my career off right. I have to pay an overabundance of money for a certification/education that I didn't receive. This is painful. I have to pay back more than people I know in universities. I found out too late that Everest is a private college. The only time the financial advisors wanted to talk to me was when it was time to renew the loan paperwork. They have tried to get me to come back to the college several times. I did my externship in an office CP Motions, which is now closed, as a Secretary, nothing to do with Medical Billing. Most of the externship site didn't want me because I wasn't bilingual. My hours were lost. I was told I needed to re-enroll and do 8 hours in order to graduate or complete. They will let anyone into their school, especially if they are poor because they know they can take advantage of the situation and get their money.

The signing up process was great and I was signed up and had my loan before I knew it. I had to go to school in the morning due to the fact my son also went to school in the morning. I went to take Medical Billing and Coding and was able to get a Pell Grant, but was told by a Financial Aid representative that I would need to apply for two loans, a subsidized federal Stafford loan and unsubsidized federal Stafford loan, to pay for the rest of the course as well as my books, uniforms and any expenses, including housing, bills, etc. I made payments while I was still attending Everest to a financial aid officer, which, I found out later that the payments were not going to Sallie Mae but to Everest, because apparently they said I had another loan through the school itself and that I owed money for and needed to pay back. I never saw a dime of the money that was supposed to help with not only my class, uniforms, books, but also any bills I had at the time, which I might need the money for. I found out later after the fact that the school is not even accredited and you have to pay over $200 to take another course in order to become certified.

The school is a total scam. They draw you in with promises of helping you to get a career/job and then once you're enrolled, they take your money and don't try to help you with any of the materials in class, or even trying to finish the course. Everest has a reputation for graduating anyone, even without the skills they need to perform in the real world. So, here I am, stuck with $10,000 of student loans. I have no way to pay it back. Most times, I can't make enough money to support my family, let alone pay any loans. We are now on food stamps, and back on Medicaid for my children. Going to school was supposed to make this all better. I'm also receiving harassing phone calls from very unprofessional people.

I went to this college early last year, 2011, and I took a few courses. I was told all the ** that I am seeing on here, but my instructors were a joke, and never wanted to help with anything, so I decided to withdraw. I finished the classes I had at the time, advised my adviser that I did not want to continue, did all the paperwork, and everything that I needed to leave, good and friendly. I did go through the application where I got the laptop, but I was told that my grant money paid for it. I remember asking numerous times if I had to pay for it, if it was a loan, etc, and each time I was told no.

I pawned it and purposely let it go. I just did not need it, and I liked the guy I pawned it to, so I decided to let him make a few bucks off it. Well, he sold it to another gentleman, and now it is frozen. The school put a freeze on it, because they say it was not paid for, even though they took the money out of my Pell grant. Now, I was told I have to pay the guy his money to get the laptop back, so I can send it back to them. I am at a loss, because they are threatening to press felony charges, because they say it is their property, not mine. I think I might get a lawyer, but please, everyone beware!

I graduated from Everest in 2011. I started attending when I decided I wanted to go into forensics. I was told I needed a degree in Criminal Justice. I agreed to the program thinking the admissions counselor knew what she was talking about. They told me that they will help you find a job and has lifetime job placement assistance. I was so excited because I was in my late 30's and needed the schooling to start my career. I was forced to take online classes because the classes I was supposed to take were full with new incoming students. I expressed my feelings about this as online was more expensive and why wasn't I given priority because I was there for much longer.

I took Intro to Forensics as my last class before I graduated. So much for my career, there was absolutely no hands on training or even experiments the whole time as promised in the beginning and even on television ads. We were supposed to be given forensic kits for the Intro to Forensics class, but the teacher said the kits contained items she had never seen before and she was a police officer and didn't feel they were worth the time or money we were paying. I took an Intro to Algebra class and dropped it after talking to the dean. I still had to pay for it to be taken again, after the teacher was let go for inappropriate comments, pertaining to age and not willing to help the students.

I told a friend of mine about the school and she took online schooling and received her degree in Criminal Investigations! Those are the classes I needed to take, but they weren't offered in the school itself, only online. I was unaware of this until just before I graduated, I wasn't told. If they knew what I wanted to do, why didn't they tell me in the beginning? I now have a degree that I did not want and have to pay back more money than I can afford. I was told my credits would transfer to a university, but was not told I could not attend a regular university. I would have to go to a public college and then transfer into a regular university. I searched desperately for a university that offered the classes I need for my Bachelors degree and I could not find one.

As far as the job searches and placement assistance, they are non-existent as far as I am concerned. I receive periodic emails and phone calls with jobs available in security and loss prevention. If there are any in police departments, they are scarce and sent when it is too late to apply. I did not go to school to be a security guard and drive around a parking lot all night. I asked about internships and was told they were possible. Never had any offers, and was never told of any. Then I found out they don't offer them.

I graduated with honors from Everest. I had excellent grades and worked very hard to try and start my career off right. I have to pay an overabundance of money for the wrong degree. This is painful. I have to pay back more than people I know in universities. I found out to late that Everest is a private college, not public; therefore the cost is 10 times higher. The only time the financial advisors wanted to talk to me was when it was time to renew the loan paperwork. They will let anyone into their school, especially if they are poor because they know they can take advantage of the situation and get their money.

I had some excellent teachers who only did their job the way they were told to. We were told several times that there would be people coming in for accreditation purposes and we needed to beware. We were told we must attend class, because they needed attendance to be high to be accredited. We were told that the people would be dressed like students and try to blend in. We had to be careful what we said in class. We had to watch how we dressed. Granted I am older, so I didn't dress like some of these people did. They had on shorts that barely covered anything and tops that barely covered anything and acted like teenagers making out in the hallway.

I am most bothered by the fact that I needed a degree in Criminal Investigations and received one in Criminal Justice. I took one class related to Forensics, at the end of my 2 years. To them, I was a dollar sign, not a person wanting a career. I was also told that a job in loss prevention was what I needed to get my foot in the door of a police department. I needed the hands on training I was promised and the right degree.

These issues really put a damper on what I want to do. I am 39 years old with no training in forensics. I did not get anything I was promised and the money I have to pay is really not worth the time I put in to obtain a degree I didn't need. My friend that got the Criminal Investigations degree took a lot of classes pertaining to forensics and criminal investigations. She is well on her way to becoming an investigator. I have to get a Bachelor of Arts degree specializing in forensics to even apply for crime scene investigation.

I was not young and naive when I applied for Everest. I was thinking that they gave me the correct information and I would be able to at least be part of the forensic field, even if it was on a volunteer basis. I am so upset and disappointed that this cannot happen until I have taken the classes I need for the Bachelors program.

I am literally stuck. How or why should I pay the money it cost to receive a degree that I didn't ask for. I am hoping that someone out there will actually read this and let me know what I need to do to help get Everest straightened out and eventually get them to pay for their mistakes. I have to pay them for misinformation and wrong education.

There are classes starting on the 27th of February 2012. I just called to get enrolled and they made me feel like it was all going to be okay. I was even assured a job. When I was asking questions after reading a few rip off sites on them, the stories are all the same. I applied for my financial aid and wrote an email to FAFSA asking them to not continue with the classes as I was not going to enroll and that it was in fact wrong. I haven't even started and have no books or laptop--all that was done was a lot of blabbering on the phone.

They cannot answer questions I ask honestly and they beat around the bush. Their paper work does not add up. I copied everything before I signed and sent it to them. How is this legal? We cannot get jobs and they have no internship program there. Why does our government allow them to get funding? They know they lie about monies and such. I am looking to join a class action lawsuit against them.

There are enough complaints to do something, why does our government not putting a stop to these schools? And why do they allow this to happen? We pay for everything, whether it's through Pell grants or loans and we have to pay it back or we default. Do not choose Everest. Go to a regional accredited school! Or a school with an intern program to help you when you get out! I am a mom of four children and two severely sick. They do not walk, talk or go to the toilet on their own and these people have no compassion and do not care. They are all about the money. I have paper work to prove this.

I attended this school in February 2007 because my mother-in-law was going to become a medical assistant. I went to take medical billing and coding and was able to get a Pell grant, but was told my financial aid officer, Rosalinda **, that I would need to apply for two loans, a subsidized federal Stafford loan and unsubsidized federal Stafford loan, to pay for the rest of the course as well as my books, uniforms and any expenses, including housing, bills, etc. They also made arrangements with NLSC to assist me with my account in making payments to Sallie Mae, which both my loans from. I made two payments while I was still attending Everest to a financial aid officer, which I found out later that the payments were not going to Sallie Mae but to Everest, because apparently they said I had another loan through the school itself and that I owed money for and needed to pay back. I never saw a dime of the money that was supposed to help with not only my class, uniforms, books, but also any bills I had at the time, which I might need the money for.

Three months after I started my course at Everest, the dean in charge was lead by police in handcuffs out of the building. I was told because of transportation issues, they would help me with bus fare to continue being able to attend my class; a few days later they called me and told me if I didn't show up they would drop me from the course, which they did. The teacher I originally was taking my course with who was in charge of the MIBC Dept. refused to help the students in her class with the material. And when you would ask her for help she would get rude and embarrass you in front of the rest of the class, like you would be an idiot for not knowing any of the material, even though it was the first month of the class and no one there knew anything about the course, which was the reason for taking it. They even asked us if anyone had any experience in working for, or taking courses for the class, and if they did she would ask them to leave and refuse to teach them.

I asked to be transferred to a different teacher and because of that my first teacher was nasty to me every time I saw her in between classes and even lied and told the staff in the office, including the dean, that I was a problem student. I found out later after the fact that the school is not even accredited and you have to pay over $100 to take another course in order to become certified. The school is a scam. They draw you in with promises of helping you to get a career and then once you're enrolled they take your money and don't try to help you with any of the materials in class, or even trying to finish the course. Do not waste your time going to this school! You'll regret it.

I called Everest, wanting info on how long their electrician program is, and then I let them know I wouldn't be able to do it, having two young children. I would contact the school in 2 or 3 months, since then, I've been receiving non-stop calls from as early as 7 AM, to as late as 7 PM yesterday. This Rebecca called 5 times, disturbing my family, and my young children, who are sleeping. I called and got Rebecca, who told me her name now was Marie. She didn't take my number down, and refuse to let me talk to her superior, I just asked that she stop calling. I'm willing to send a copy of my incoming calls list. When my wife picks up, they hang up on her.

I am a single parent, who enlisted with Everest to better myself with an education and hopes of a better paying career. When I signed up with Everest, they assured me I was at the right place and were all too happy to sign me up with smiles and positive attitudes and conversations. I had to work full time and go to school 20 hours a week to make this work for me which took a lot of time away from my daughter for eight months.

While attending classes, I realized that the teachers aren't even teachers. You can't find them when you need them. Most of the administration is the same way. They seem to be Everest graduates or going to graduate. They do not return phone calls in a timely manner and this "we will help you find a job" is a joke. Every once in awhile you get a link to jobs you have already applied to and links I visit everyday. How is that helpful?

No one will even give you an interview and when you mention your school, "You went to AKA Everest," they sneer and chuckle. Most of the program according to medical facilities is not viable, yet, they have no problem calling you on an illegal level for their money back. There is also the issue of the few who do have jobs never even passed their classes. How did that happen? Everest is a joke and should be held liable for their behavior.

Everest did not give me the money they said they sent me, they said I would get 1,151 dollars, instead I got 141 dollars. They also said my Pell Grant does not come to me, it goes to them and I have to pay back it all. I am very unhappy with this and very upset. They don't know what people are going through and they shouldn't play with people's money that they work hard to get!

I went to Everest for the Medical Assisting program in 2008-2009. The signing up process was great and I was signed up and had my loan before I knew it. I had to go to school at night due to my husband working days and we could not afford daycare for our son and daughter. The class was great too except that we did not have a regular teacher because they had brought on too many students. We were supposed to have a computer teacher as well, which we didn't.

So instead of learning medical transcription and EMR programs, we took typing tests and wrote papers on diseases and medical conditions. The teacher we had most of the time was an RN, not an MA, so she could not teach us to draw blood. She did not know how because nurses do not draw blood. They have rules about absences and missing tests but somehow the two students who constantly missed class and tests got the first external sites and jobs when they graduated. I learned later that they were sleeping with the director of the medical department.

She was fired later but how was that fair to the other students. I was one of the top of the class and was helping the other students all the time. Way more than the teachers and assistants. Oh, and one of our teachers decided to skip parts of the reproduction "Mod". I really wanted to be an OB/Gyn MA, and further my career into Ultrasound diagnostics. So, I had to come early and go to another teacher to learn this information. So, I got my extern and completed it with flying colors. I graduated with all A's.

Here it is, 2012, and I still cannot get hired. A friend mentioned her dad is a surgeon. I told her, "If he needs a good MA or knows anyone who does, let me know!" She asked me what school I went to. I told her and she shook her head and frowned. She is only the daughter of a surgeon and knows Everest is a piece of crap school. Even though I busted my butt, learned the stuff they were not teaching us on my own, and know everything I need to know, I will not even be given a chance to prove it because I went to Everest.

Everest has a reputation for graduating anyone, even with out the skills they need. So, here I am, stuck with $15,000 of student loans. I have no way to pay it back. I am back serving when I can find a job. Most times, I can't make enough money to break even, let alone pay any loans. We are now on food stamps, and back on Medicaid for the kids. Going to school was supposed to make this all better. I am at the point where I don't even want to be an MA anymore. I have given up and we will be a low income family forever.

This would be now my second complaint against this school. My first was about how poorly the admissions office deals with student's financial aid. Keep in mind this is money that you will need to pay back. I was cleared three times with this school. They then came back and said they needed to get additional paperwork from me. I had Jackson Hewitt, our tax company, send in my taxes. The school had the numbers right in front of them and they couldn't even figure out the correct places on the FASFA application to enter the needed numbers. I cancelled my application with this school, called FASFA and had them removed from FASFA (Federal Student Aid) and asked Joan at FASFA to only show my new school. This was a week ago.

I called FASFA again today because I found Everest has somehow changed schools on me so they can benefit from my federal student aid and grant money. I was fuming! I received books after I cancelled. I returned them. Two days ago, I received the (ugly laptop they ask you to pay for) and nobody will call me back as to who I am supposed to send it back to. So today, it is being returned from my attorney's office. This school is not, not, an accredited school. I have done further research about this school only to find that only 23% of students graduate. That is not a high number. Those that have graduated get laughed at because this clearly isn't an accredited school. Those who graduated are having a very hard time finding jobs.

I would highly recommend that if you need to do an online school, please give Strayer University a chance. They can clear you in a matter of a day! They are accredited! Everest needs to close down. For those students who say they like this school, good for you. Best wishes for your future when you get laughed at in an interview when you mention the name Everest.

I signed up for Everest back in the beginning of November 2011. First semester started on Nov. 28. After my first week I started doing research about the school. I hadn't done this before because I was so anxious to get into a school and start getting an education. I just wanted to do the right thing for my son and myself. It's now Jan. 10, 2012 and I can honestly say it is the best experience I could have asked for. Even though everyone claims it's a scam, I haven't had any problems. I read above me someone stating that they haven't gotten their loan yet and they were supposed to get it Dec. 29th? Well, for the record, your check was dispersed on that date, as was mine, and a few others I spoke to and won't be in the mail till the 14th or so.

But anyways the teachers participate and help me. The assignments are sometimes difficult, but it is college and it is not there to be easy. It's there to stretch your minds and make you work. As for the job placement afterwards, it'd be wonderful if someone would hand me a link to a job in my field of choice, but it's not like that. So many people enroll and graduate from Everest; therefore, how can they give everyone a job? I never once got told that I would get job placement, so I don't expect it at all. I expect looking for a job in my field of choice is going to be just as hard as the work in class was.

I've been a student at Everst Hobby going on my 4th mod now. I must say, I'm enjoying my experience here. I am a weekend student and the curriculum really puts my mind at work. My teacher is awesome and very helpful and I find that this school might not be Harvard or Yale, but I am proud to be a medical assistant student. They have told me about assisting me with finding a job. They never said that they would guarantee me a job when I finish, but just that they would help me with finding one. I do not hold the school accountable for my job search. If I get one, hooray, but if not, then I have some more searching to do. Overall, I love this school.

This school is clearly a joke! I applied back on December 22nd. I have been told three times I was cleared and that I was set to start classes. I did their orientation, which is recommended. Then two days ago, I found I was not cleared yet. Funny, they received all my financial paperwork from my actual accountant and they still had issues. I started feeling sick to my stomach, knowing something was wrong. I started not to trust these people. Nobody up there knows the difference between their head and their ass. I called FASFA myself.

Hmm, they said I was cleared. I come to find out these Everest people have been "tweaking" my paperwork to benefit their own paychecks. I called up a previous school that I once was interested in and they cleared me in one hour. I do not recommend this school. I did further research to find that only 23 percent of students graduate. That shows how poor this school is.

The instructor did not care about teaching. She was there to collect a paycheck and told us so. 3 of us, students, basically taught ourselves and then taught the rest of the class. We complained to the head of the school, and we were told that it would be addressed. But nothing ever happened. When we filled out evaluations on the instructor which were supposed to be anonymous, she informed us that we could complain all we wanted and that it wasn't going to change anything. She knew who each evaluation belonged to, and there would be payback.

When I interviewed for the school, I was told that job placement was part of the plan. I graduated last April, and I am still not working in the field I went to school for (Medical Billing and Insurance Coding). Their job placement assistance consists of sending out links on a daily basis from Monster.com and other common employment job boards that we were all already subscribed to.

It got down to the point that I told them to stop sending me their emails, as they were just duplicates of what I was getting from the job boards. They weren't even sending job postings for what I went to school for. This isn't everything. But I'm so mad that I can't even think straight right now. (I paid $19,000.00 for teaching my self and my classmates.)

I went to Everest College a long time back now. I think it was like fall of 2008. Anyways, I went there for police foundations which was later changed to law enforcement. We were treated like crap. "Geared to help you" but we were told it was best not to have a job while going to school. Most of us had kids! We weren't allowed to split costs on books we barely even touched. We would be kicked out.

Then the biggest shocker for me, having my dad past away from cancer, taking time off to put my mom back together, coming back to be kicked out a month later for missing too much time. then sorting that out. I completed my time and had to come back to finish a few courses. But they gave me the wrong start dates and was able to go back to complete in eleven months. So now my daycare has run out and I could try and get daycare again but what's the point when almost every person I talk to from that school works in retail or gets laughed at when they mention Everest.

My one friend from the class struggles the most, having to resort to welfare because she wouldn't be able to pay bills anymore. Depressing because we owe over twenty grand for what? Because finance messed up and gave us max loan money, not tuition and books. But good luck tracking her down. She was fired. I would love to meet the jerk who founded this scam college and tell him that he has ruined a lot of little children's lives, oh and Christmas. But thanks to Salvation Army, my kids got food and Christmas this year.

Everest college is a big front. I must say they will get you where they want you, and drop you off in the middle of nowhere. I put my trust into them, even though I knew it was too good to be true. I contacted them on a Saturday. I was enrolled on a Sunday, but it took almost two weeks for me to get in, because I wouldn't give them personal info, because they were digging too deep. I actually couldn't start until it was the end of November for the 6 wk program! I have been attending Everest now for 5 weeks.

No disbursements, even though I have gotten email stating that my account has been updated successfully, with me knowing I haven't touched my account. It stated that it would be here on the28th, but nothing yet. I feel that all of my teachers are animated. I copied and pasted my work one day with just keywords of the assignment, just to see what would happen, and I received a 100! I really wish we could get together to shut this bull down for good. It's a waste of invention. I will never return here again.

Everest Institute sucks! I am so wanting to sue their **. Me and my best friend signed up at the same time for Medical Assisting. It was all fine and dandy. I was at the top of my class. I was a Student Ambassador, on the honor roll every month, so what did I do wrong? I have had at least 10 interviews and they all tell me the same thing.

I don't have enough experience. I even had one woman laugh at me and she didn't even finish my interview. How embarrassing! Now 2011, I still don't have that dream job. Career Services is a joke, they say they will help you once you get out of school, that's crap. Once they have your money, they don't care what happens to you! Anyways, I would not recommend this school to anyone!

My two sons enrolled in a 1 yr. program to get certified as Medical Assistants. They graduated in July 2011. They were told that they would receive notice of the state test schedule to take their state required test to receive their certification. This was supposed to take 1-2 months. We're now in December and they have not received a date for this test and they have not received their diplomas in the mail either. They attended the Chicago loop campus and it does not exist. They never received notice that the campus was moving or anything about any changes as to who they should contact to pursue the services that they were promised. What should we do? Who can we complain to?

I attended Everest in 2003-2005, I was paying monthly fees and was forced to get loans. I was advised that I could continue my education after Everest as they are accredited. I later found out that was false. If you failed to make a monthly payment directly to the school, they would have a finical adviser come into the classroom and pull you out, then discuss your personal issues with other classmates to embarrass you.

I am paying $13,000 on a loan I never would have requested if this institute would have been honest about their accreditation. I cannot do anything with this so called degree and can barely pay these loans. I feel the institute should pay this debt for falsely representing themselves.

I went to Everest in 2007 graduated with so-called honors. All you had to do is have perfect attendance, turn in your homework, and do the work you got on the dean's list presidents list. But everything was rush, rush, rush. You barely got the understanding of the classwork. There were always fights. Hardly any tutoring; you either got it or you didn't. We won't even talk about financial aide. They ** me over. I thought that some of my tuition was covered; now I got some loan people called ECDC saying I owe them $10,000. Then the infamous Sallie Mae saying I owe them $1700. One I can pay for, the other I can't. So now I am about to be garnished. I went to study massage therapy. It is now 2011. I don't work in this field. I still work at the job I had when I was in school, which is fast food. I barely can pay my bills and take care of my family, trying to pay back loans.

Now I fear that I will be garnished any day now. They don't even help MTs find jobs. They give you a so-called interview, give you some cheap looking business cards, and basically tell you to get out. The pictures you see on the wall may only have 3 MTs versus medical assistants. Get this? They hired one old lady to work at the school when I know me and other MTs could do the job hands down. Please if you thinking about going to that school, run and don't look back. I feel I was cheated and used. No one ever contacted me to see if I was working. I had to pay for tickets, cap and gowns, as if the loans weren't enough. I want to go to school now, but Everest blew every dream of going because I'm scared of loans, financial aide, scared of being manipulated, and that is a shame.

The bad part about the loans is that I don't even know if I really owe them. It's been a while. I know they told me I had a grant to be an MT; it was $12,000. If I had a grant, why is one business saying I owe $10,000 and another saying I owe $1700? I can't find my papers that I signed because I have moved around a lot, so I think I misplaced them. I am screwed paying back money I might not even owe. Someone please help me. I can't afford a lawyer.

I was a student at MSC College. I enrolled in the college in 2009 after I completed my matric. I was doing marketing then on a later stage that very same year, I changed to do IT. When the college closed for the December holidays, I had already completed 6 subjects; the following year, I did not go to the school but I kept on getting sms that I should come and register for the next subject. I did not go. Six months later, I got a learnership in Absa. Ever since, I've never went back to the school. Right now, I'm not working and on 16/11/2011, I got a call from Ultima collectors. They told me that I have a debt and I need to pay R8129.98 for their registering me for the courses I was supposed to take at MSC College. I don't know how to handle the matter; I need assistance because I dont have the kind of money they need and I'm not permanently employed.

Con artists, liars, thieves, deceivers and false advertisement and fraudulent acts.

First of all, I would like to tell people that sometimes in life, the things that look good are not always good. Always remember this and some times it is very wise to follow that one little inner voice that warns you to not to do something. First of all, let me just tell everyone that if you don't know, never knew and are unaware, let me just say that Everest Institute used to be N.I.T. This is first and foremost.They changed the name and they weren't doing so great. Then secondly, Everest used a form of mental manipulation when they used the old commercial routine to encourage those that wanted to be something or was tired of living the way that they were and they made it seem like Everest really cared about peoples success.

Well, I knew that was a brainwashing technique when I first saw the commercials. Why? Because it sounded too good to be true. People should always remember this golden rule: Whenever there are or is a contract or contracts involved, you should always say what if to yourselves and outweigh the good with the bad. Also, look at the fact of who you will be dealing with.

5.Always,always do your research.

I called Everest after seeing those con commercials but I was very hesitant because I said to myself what if this is some bull crap or what if I don't finish then I will owe money that I don't have. But anyways, I made an appointment and I went. When I arrived, there I was once again hesitant. That inner voice was telling me, "You need to go to school but Everest is not the one." I proceeded into the building and upon arriving there I saw and heard two young women arguing amongst each other and getting ready to fight Now talk about red flags. Yeah. Anyways, I went into the office and the lady in the office told me to out some head phones on so that they can tell me about the school. Now me being who I am very sensitive to everything and everyone I knew that this was the old subliminal, manipulating routine. "Ouch," This is a no-no' when it comes to me. So I played their game of sucker we gonna get you routine and I put the headphones on. But the question was, was i listening? No!

I already knew Everest was full of bat poop at this point. My suspicions were right because no business or school should make or have to manipulate a persons mind to make them accept their services or to make a person come to their school. I proceeded to have the headphones on and once I was done, the next phase was to talk too an Everest counselor. I went and sat down with the counselor and the first thing she asked me about was reading over the contract/the loan part. I asked her what did I qualify for? Of course, only the loan. She asked me what did I want to take up and I asked her what does Everest have to offer and she explained and everything consisted of being an assistant of some sort. The only thing that was not assistant related was a becoming a massage therapist but the catch with this was, if you did not have a highschool diploma or GED, well then you could not go into this field.

Mind you, this is why a lot of people rushed to come to Everest because they had no diploma. Manipulation all the way. Well, I thought to myself it seems like they have everything backwards here. If anything becoming a massage therapist would be available to those that don't have a diploma because a person would be licensed and can start their own business/clientele. But that's it! Too easy and too clever! You are guaranteed work. Maybe,but possible. So now the only thing left for you is medical billing, dental assistant, medical assistant and that's all I can remember.

Now these things anyone can go into, but wait! You don't have a highschool diploma or a GED but guess what? They had a solution to that problem. Just sign your name on the dotted line you can go into either field except massage therapist and when you get ready while taking your course of being an assistant, you can go and take the GED test. But the question is, is what if you don't pass the test,well then you will be certified as an assistant but yet and still, no one is going to hire you? So now you owe this money and you still can't find or get a job doing what you signed up to do. Now what if you do get your GED an you say, "I don't want to be an assistant." "Well, now you still owe the big man his money and believe me he is gonna get it back too."

But back to the topic, I told the counselor to let me go home and think about this and she said, "Are you sure? Because I don't want you to change your mind," and then she proceeded to tell me about what God would want for me and trying to manipulate my mind with the old sudden rush syndrome. Well of course it did not work and I told her basically I have had enough and that I was leaving. So I left.

My overall view of Nit/aka Everest is: they are a bunch of con/manipulating people that just want to get that money. That's all. And will use whatever tactics, forms of manipulation and subliminal messages that they can to make you give into their hog wash of fairy tales.They have since stop accepting people without diplomas or GEDs .I say they may work for some but not all. My recommendation: Try at your own risk but be cautious.

This place sucks. My husband and I enrolled into online classes just to find out we were getting the run around this whole time. It's been over 2 weeks now and I still haven't gotten my check from my 6 week summer term. My husband and I have pulled out of the school this term (fall) and my husband still is getting charged for the term. He has received paperwork and a student ID card and I haven't received anything. Neither one of us can get the same answer from any 2 people. We are on the verge of getting kicked out because of their ignorance.

The student advisors are never in their office when you need to talk to them. This is ridiculous. They say their laptops have tracking on them, our house was broken into and laptops were stolen and they won't do anything. We are afraid they will charge us for those laptops. In the laptop agreement that was sent to my husband and not me, it was stated that with a police report we would be charged $500 to replace them but I had one lady tell me that they only charge $100 to replace this.

If the school actually tracked the computers then we would be able to have the police go get them so we could send them back. We called numerous times and at times get automatically transferred to the voice mail and no one ever returns the calls or they don't know what's going on when you do get to talk to someone. They are very unprofessional. On a scale of 1-10, if we would recommend this school to someone else we would give it a -1 not even worth the money or time for a phone call.

We can't even get into another school because they are charging us for fall term semester which is ridiculous. I mean if a student has 2 weeks at the beginning of each term to decide if they want to drop out or not and they do, that person should not be charged. And as far as I know they are the only school to furnish students with computers which is a big mistake.

I have repeatedly asked this company to provide me with a printout of my expenses while going to this school. I am 100% funded by the United States Army and I am also receiving financial aid. I am entitled to receive credit when the amount awarded to me each semester exceeds the amount due. I have received nothing. Once again, I am being told that a printout is not available for my viewing. I am entitled to know what I am being charged for.

I am also complaining because when I went to register for my next term, I went through the whole process only to be told 2 weeks later that I was dropped from the school. I am filing a complaint against Reo **, the representative of Student Services for illegally dropping me from the school. I did not give her permission to unenroll me and due to her actions, it caused me to lose my benefits that I have been receiving for serving 8 years in the military. When I inquired why I was dropped, she simply explained that she overheard me asking about the process to withdraw from the school. This still does not give her a legal right to drop my status from the school. I never signed anything and I never talked to her about withdrawing me from the school.

When I went to talk to another representative of the school, I was given the runaround and everyone was avoiding me and not responding to my calls. I would like to see a document that states that I withdrew myself from the school. They have not been able to furnish that to me because one does not exist. Due to the unprofessional and illegal activities of this school, I am unable to maintain my bills. I was treated unfairly, illegal procedures were taken, and something needed to be done. There needs to be some consequences. They have taken advantage of me, a veteran of the Armed Forces. Because of their illegal procedures, I am getting eviction notices and final notices. I have called repeatedly to try and resolve this matter but have gotten no resolutions.

I have completed the MA program with a 3.0 grade average.We are required to complete 180 hrs of internship hours. I have completed 150 hrs. I moved to a different city, my school and I looked for a site to finish my 30 hrs, found a site 2 city away. I don't have a car barely making it as it is the bus and Bart to the site would cost me 110.00 dollars a week. I could not do it. So Everest dismissed me from the school without a diploma because i have not finish my 30 hrs. I fell it is not my fault that there are no sites around or by me.

Deception during the enrollment process, loan process, graduation, and job placement....etc.

This school is so full of crap. So I graduated from there in 2006 with an AA, not to mention they tried to hold my degree saying I owed them $3000.00. I came to find out the financial aid adviser never submitted my FAFSA form when I did it in the office. They asked me if I came in and completed financial aid. I told them yes and have my copy of the form. I told I would sue them if they didn't get rid of the balance because it was their error.

They quickly deleted the balance. So now here I am trying to finish into a bachelor's and come to find out no other school anywhere take the credit so I have to start from scratch. There went $20,000 for absolutely nothing. I went to FMU in Fort Lauderdale.

To anybody who went to Florida, there are lawyers and the Attorney General's office filing complaints and doing an investigation. Please contact them and file your complaint

I was on the phone with a career counselor and they set me up with a phone call with this school. All I was looking for was some information on some business management courses. The representative that called me was very rude with me because I didn't want to get enrolled right away and didn't have the amount of time he wanted me to have for school right now.

I advise not to go to this school and don't bother trying to get any information. They have a lot to learn about customer service at this organization. This is by far my worst experience with any school looking for students. The representative's name is Joshua **.

I will never consider this school for anything.

I am looking for a lawyer to represent me. I will not pay my student loan money back to a school, this is a scam. I think some should have a news station, do an investigation into Everest.

This is the worst experience of my life. Please, if you are reading this, don't go to this school. Everything there is a lie.

The first time I went to Everest in Chelsea, MA, I was full of illusions. I wanted to start a new career for medical assistant. I went in for information, and practically, these people push you to get you in. Right away, they sent me to financial aid to see if I was approved for the federal grant. So, they did some papers and numbers, and finally, they said that I was approved for $5,300. I was so happy. So, they told me that I only needed to pay the remaining, which was going to be a different loan for the amount of $9,500.

To make the story short, I agreed. They promised to help with many things such as resume, internship, to find a job, and more. I graduated with honors, but after my graduation, the nightmare started. I started to receive phone calls from the CCI in California and from Everest Institute too in Chelsea, saying that I owed them the $5,300 from the grant that I was not approved of. I was in shock. I was so mad. I had so many feelings at that time. I just couldn't believe it. This school is a fraud.

It has been almost a year since I graduated and I haven't found a job yet. Most of the clinics that I apply for said that the institution is not good and that the students from Everest, at the time of hiring, don't know anything about medical practice. :( I wish I could find more students with the same situation as mine and together start a law suit action against this institution. This is not fair!

My experience is terrible. They charged students different prices, then to cover it up. They want to set one price so that no one will know. They're giving laptops to the new students whose tuition is lower than the older students, but they can't receive a laptop. This is so unfair. We pay more money than the new students, but they get a laptop plus their tuition is cheaper.

I was told by Michelle, the Admissions Representative, that upon completion of this program, I would make $15 an hour and if I got certified, I could make $22 an hour. It was all bold-faced lie!

I am not happy with the school and the way it was run was disgraceful. We payed to have ultrasound but we never got the equipment that we payed for. All equipment like EKG machines always broke down. This is a new school but they never have enough backup equipment ordered. My teacher had to teach our class and the other class because the teacher just up and left. Fights were breaking out in the hallway and classrooms, while the woman who was in charge of education was looking in and did nothing. We were made to pay a monthly fee and if a student didn't have that money, they were told to leave and return when they had the money.

I never heard of a school having you make monthly payments while you are still in school, then to have you leave until you can make the monthly payments. I am very upset with Sallie Mae also. I feel that they are just as wrong as these schools. When my class finished and we were looking, or at least I know I was trying to find a place to have an internship with, they had incompetent people working for them. I had two places lined up to go talk with but when I finally got a call, I was told that the school had a place for me to go.

The place I went for an internship was a joke! The doctor used me as cheap labor and her other MA's would be long gone and I would still be there working. She got paid from the program to take the MA's in, however, she didn't teach us anything. What I learned was on my own through trial and error. Also, I had to have a talk with the President of the school, because we were being let go without having our CPR which was also paid for. Long story short, we had to return and my teacher gave the CPR test a week later.

This is a brand new school but I am disgusted at the lies and I am not happy. If I was told the truth, I would have chosen to get training in another field. I wasted my time and finances. I can't make a decent living being a Medical Assistant and I had to learn that the hard way!

When I first enrolled I had a problem with my green card. I had misplaced it but I made sure financial aid was aware of my problem. I personally asked if not having my green card would be a problem in the future. Financial aid assured and promised that it wouldn't be a problem as long as I had a previous employer fax a copy of my documents. I took care of that, next thing I know it was a week before finals and Alma ** called me up to the front office. She told me I had to be dropped cause of my green card. When they gave me a verification form to get completed by in order to enroll I took it personally to the address where supposedly they had mailed. I never received response or an answer from them. When I took the letter personally, I was told at that specific address they no longer handle the verification forms for the past ten years. I was also told that the school was accredited when I was enrolling.

Everest sounded really good on the commercial but once in, the professionalism of all from admitting, teachers, unruly students, career advisors was so devastating that it was beyond understanding why I even fell for all the lies that I was told.

My teacher was never in the class room. Every once in a while, they pulled another teacher from another room to poke her head in. We never had enough supplies for clinical, and we were told to bring in crutches so that they could show us how to use them. Are you kidding. I never learned how to use a lot of clinical machines used in the medical field.

The money is all they cared about not the student that was really serious about being a medical assistant. They actually interrupted a class just to pull students out because they did not pay and constant interruptions from students fighting in class. I was told that they will help me find an internship which they did. I was not allowed to do anything but answer phones, filling, and clean the cellar, no joke. They didn't find me a job.

Since I left in 2005, I owe Sallie Mae, my life a big loan. If I cannot pay a monthly bill because I'm not making the money that I was promised after graduating, they will call relentlessly for their money which I do not have. This so-called school was a joke, and I did not quit the school, because I really believed that I was going to make more money. I found my own jobs on my own and with no help from this school.

I am having a hard time with a bill that I have to pay from Sallie Mae and this upsets me everyday. I do not earn what I was told I was going to get; so much less, I'm a clinical assistant not a medical assistant. I was told that I was going to be certified but it never happened. This has been a nightmare.

Everest Institute in Chelsea Mass is a complete fraud. It lies to students about finding them work. Do not attend this school. It changed its name from "Bryman" to Everest to cover up its fraudulent practices of lying to people and getting them to join their school to keep getting federally funded.

Hospitals do not hire students from Everest. Their reputation is "disgraceful". Medical facilities "run" from you with the name Everest on your back.

This school does not give you a diploma unless you are completely paid to date with the school portion of your debt. They tell you when entering you don't owe anything till after 6 months of graduating. That is a lie!!! They want the school owed debt.

The fees are due monthly on your first month of classes, which is about $4, 000 to $ 5, 000 dollars, depending on your trade. If you don't pay this portion of the debt (monthly) or be paid up to date with this debt, you will not receive a diploma.

You must also sign everything in your file or they will refuse to release your diploma. This school is a scam and a disgrace to the USA education systems.

The Department of Education and our federal government are doing nothing to stop this fraud and systematical luring of students. This school does not inform its students that it is not recognized by other post-secondary institutions. In other words your time at Everest means "nothing" and is worth "nothing" at other educational institutions!

Once you sign that contract, they own you! And you now owe them 20 grand or more. It will take the next 10 to 15 years of your life to pay this debt off. Run like hell from these Corinthian colleges! I hope you all read this before it's too late!

I had finished my training and received my diploma from Everest Institute in Dearborn MI. I was told they guaranteed job placement after externship and that I would top out my pay at $18.00 an hour. Well I did my externship and wasn't hired. So I started looking on my own for a job. All the job leads that Everest gave me were for someone who had been working for 6 months or longer.

Finally the manager from the office where I did my externship at, called me and I worked there from Jan 2007 to May of 2007. I was fired because I refused to write an illegal script for the doctor to sign. So I called Everest right away and was told they would send me monthly job leads. I was sent job leads once. Then a month later I found a job (thanks to a friend of mine helping me get it) as a Nursing home supervisor paying $8.25 an hour. I left that job for another job that I found paying $9.00 an hour.

Not too long after I lost that job, Everest called me and asked if I was interested in their refresher courses and I said yes. I went to the interview to set up for refresher courses (with my husband with me) and was told that financial aid wouldn't pay for it, that I would have to take out a student loan for $6000.00. That I would leave there with not only more knowledge as a Medical Assistant but also my certification and I would be known as a Certified Medical Administrative Assistant.

I did not ask for more classes in another field. I asked for help to find a job. And was told that was not there place. So it has been 3 years since I have worked. Doctors laugh at me when I tell them what school I went to. I have been forced to get help from the state. And I'm now in debt from a student loan that I can't afford to pay.

Fraud! My contract states that I have advanced standing and am not required to re-take CPR, which I'm now being forced to do so and pay for it when my contract states a different proposition. They promised state hospital positions and hands-on training (out of 9 months of school, hands-on = less than 3 weeks). This school is a joke and I'm looking into pursuing legal advise. Do not attend this college. They charge $600 in lab fees and there's no lab fees in physiotherapy. Thieves! I have now got to pay for a course I already have and osap refused to pay due to the fact I already have CPR!

I enrolled in Everest 10/2010. Everything was going great until I was informed that once we completed the program we would still have to pay $2000 for a workshop and $300 additional to take a certification test and without those the certificate is worth nothing. I also found out that I was lied to by the representative and that none of the credit I took at Everest would transfer.

When I tried to get out of the classes I was told I could leave but I would still owe the $15,000. Then things went down hill from there. Everest made major mistakes on my financial aid and loan were canceled and not done correctly. I went to see the Financial aid person 3 times before she was actually in her office. Carmen said corporate would fix the problem and not to worry. Come January, I found out nothing was fixed. So I went to the Head of the Financial aid department and I requested help and this issue to be fixed. She (another Carmen) went over my account, saw the problem and said she would fix it and get back to me.

Well, she did get back to me about a week later and said everything was taken care of. I thought the problem was resolved. On to new problem, I made a complaint to the Dean that the teacher was sleeping in class and I had 3 videos to prove it along with other students' complaint that he was sleeping during class and we were not learning anything. Also they were speaking Spanish and I do not understand Spanish. From that point on it was really down hill. I received a letter that I was in danger of being kicked out of school for my attendance; I did miss classes but I didn't want to sit watching someone sleep in his chair while I could be doing other things.

I got an A in each mode with this instructor. When I went to talk to the dean about this again, she basically blew me off and said they would take care of it. That was 5/2/11. On 5/6/11 I get a call from financial aid telling me I need to come in and apply for $2400 loan but would not tell me why, also would not tell me how much I received from Stafford loan and how much from Pell.

By my records when I look it up I received a total of $15042. And in January, I was told that the account was taken care of and not to worry about anything. The additional $1815 was taken care of by financial aid in January to make up the total $16857 that I need to pay for classes. I do not want to take out another loan and I don't see how they can force me to do so 2 weeks before I am to start the internship. I explained to them before classes started that I didn't want a private loan because I am on unemployment and can not afford to have a lot of loan payments for school. I even applied for the work study program just in case there was a balance. I could work there and put that money toward the balance. Now I am being bullied into another loan.

In July of 2008, I went to Everest Institute to view the school. I heard about the school from the TV ads.

I am a single mother of two daughters and have no income or child support. The TV made it seem like a great idea for someone like me. I went to view the school and spoke with Andrea **. She was very nice, but also very pushy and rushing to get me signed up. She told me how great the program was and told me upon graduating that I would be in a great medical job receiving $17.00 per hour or up. I was trying to decide if I should take billing and coding or medical assisting; letting her know that at times, I am very shy and did not know which one was best for me.

She gave me a test and it said medical assisting was best. I was still unsure because I was 35 years old and I know about my shyness. So She took me to meet with Kimberleyann ** who assured me that this was a great school and not to worry about my shyness they will help me. She advised me to take medical assisting over billing and coding because if I don't like medical assisting, they can still get me a job in billing and coding because medical assisting course teaches some of that but if I take billing and coding and don't like it, I'm stuck because they wouldn't be able to get me a medical assisting job.

So right there I said okay and I'll go for medical assisting so at least, I will have a choice. We then went downstairs. She started to talk about enrolling me. I wanted to go and I said that I only came to find out some information and my choices but before I knew it, I am taking a huge test. She just pushed and pushed. Next thing I know, she is talking about aid. I was saying that I can't get a loan because I will never be able to pay it back. She went on and on about a 5,000.00 dollar grant. It sounded go. Next, I find myself talking with a planner.

She said that I'll get a grant and my loan will only be about 7,000.00 dollars paying 50.00 a month back. I was still scared of the loan because I know my situation. Back to Andrea ** going on and on about how they place 99.9% of their graduates and the loan does not start to need to be payed back until after I start working for six months. Well, I fell for everything she said and to be honest, I started to feel excited and thought that my life was finally going in the right direction.

I started classes that September. About three weeks into the course, I went to talk to Kimberleyann ** stating that I want to quit because the class was filled with crazy people. Girls were fighting and throwing tables at each other. No one would do anything. Teacher was never in the room always dealing with problems so it was hard for her to teach. I went to talk to Kimberleyann ** because I wanted to quit. She totally talked me out of it and was like don't be a quitter and anyway, she says to me that I am responsible for the loan. So I decided to stick it out.

As time went on, class got a little better and it started to seem okay. I was learning a lot and decided that I liked doing phlebotomy the best. So I asked my teacher if I should talk to the externship coordinator, Natasha, about doing my externship in a lab. My teacher was like don't ask Natasha anything because she will give you the opposite of what you ask for. I'm like why this is my future we are talking about. My teacher stated because that's the way Natasha is. Throughout my eight months, there I heard really bad things about Natasha and I was scared of her.

Now, it is time for me to go to Career Services to get ready for my externship and prepare a rsum. So as they are helping me, they say keep the year you graduated high school off the rsum because it makes you seem old and they tend to hire younger girls. So now, I was questioning my age.

Now it is time for externship. I got to the meeting and I get handed a form to go to Quigley but don't bring anything; other girls who got big hospitals were told to bring medical assisting equipment. So after the meeting, I asked Natasha about Quigley because I never heard of it and wanted to know what I will be doing. She is like, I heard about you and you will do fine here and walked away. So she brushed me off again and I feel like crap. So now, it's time to meet with Quigley. I meet with Sheri, the head nurse, and ended up being the outpatient of the Soldiers Home in Chelsea. She lets me know there is no medical assisting here but she will accept me. Not knowing what to think of that, I gave it a shot and took the externship because I was told many times by my teacher that if a student complains about externship, Natasha will make your life hell.

So for four weeks, I sat on a chair in the waiting room of Quigley except on Mondays when they let me do vitals but it was by a machine and I think a 5-year-old could do it. One time, I wheeled a patient and another time, I went to fill a prescription.

When externship is over, I go and meet with Natasha. She asked how was it and when I said that I was a little disappointed, she went off on me telling me that I am lucky I got that. Then she tells me that my rsum sucks and have Career Services help me. I'm like they're the ones that wrote it. So I go back to Career Services and Vivanna tells me to come back after June for help because there is a lot of changes and no one can help me. Mind you, it is early May and she is telling me to wait to the end of June. So I went home and waited to hear about graduation. Finally, I get a call about graduation and it is in September. I get there. They are passing out ropes to students who made deans or president's list. I am waiting for mine but to my surprise, I don't get one. So I go over to Natasha and say I graduated with an A average she says I don't qualify because I'm absent. I felt sad on graduation and was emotionally ruined.

So now, I finally get an appointment with Career Services at Virginia. She helps me with my rsum and started sending job leads. A few weeks later, I got a job interview in Salem. I thought the interview went well but when asked about my externship, I didn't know what to say and the conversation went nowhere because I was not feeling confident about the externship.

So I guess the interview lady called Everest and told them she didn't like me. Virginia wanted to talk to me. I told her about the externship and how I just sat there and I was feeling down on myself because I did not understand why I got sent there. Andrea ** told me that upon enrolling if you go to class everyday, get good grades and are a good student, you will get a good externship. I went to class everyday, got all A's and was an excellent student and I got a horrible externship and didn't understand why. So I asked if you think I would make a good medical assistant and if my teachers thought that I wouldn't make a good medical assistant and why not tell me. This isn't a joke here. I am a 36-year-old single mom trying to make my children's life better. Dont give me the runaround. I got no response from her. No more interviews and no more job leads.

A month later, I got a call saying that Joanna will now be helping me. It's okay but still there is no jobs leads or interviews. So I call her everyday for about two months but I got no response. Finally, I called and she says that I need to come in. So I go. Joanna ignores me but sends me into Michelle ** who started talking to me like I am an idiot. So I told her that I was a good student with good grades and I was disappointed with my externship and do not understand why I was sent there and why when I asked Natasha about Quigley, she said you will do fine there and I heard things about you. What did she heard because she sent me somewhere with no medical assisting. So Michelle pulls the record and sees Quigley did not let me do anything.

So now, she started questioning my skills and telling me that I need to go back to classes because now she doesn't know what I can do. I am now crying and she is going on and on about my shyness. I was like, I am the one that said that from the beginning and all you people were like oh, don't worry about it, you will be great. I was assured that my shyness would be no problem. Now, they are using it against me. So I'm feeling like crap again! I told her that I would think about going back to class. Well I decided not to do that because I worked really hard for those eight months and was a great student and I learned everything that everyone else did and I felt they just were not giving me a fair chance. Just because I am quiet doesn't mean that I cannot do the job. So I told her about Billing and Coding. I asked if she can get me something in that field because that is what Kimberleyann said. I was just ignored and sent away.

Months later, I got a call from Juan saying that he is going to help me. So he sends me a job lead for me to go to someone's house, cook her meals, and run her errands. I told Juan in an email that if Everest doesn't think I am qualified to be a medical assistant, I'll give back the certificate, but Everest better pay back the loan because I totally feel like they are discriminating against me. I don't think they ever try to place me in a medical assistant job. I don't even think they send out my rsum. I have not had one job interview since September 2008 and no job leads get sent my way.

Now some lady named Jillian wanted me to make a Facebook so I did and still nothing. They want me to go to jobs fairs. I went to a few in the beginning but when I would get there, Everest would just ignore me so now, I don't go because of pure humiliation.

I got a phone call once from someone named Allison. She told me that they have a phlebotomy job for me in Boston and I would be working independent. I said that is great and I would love that but where in Boston. She said around. So I asked if there'll be some on the job training because I have not done phlebotomy since class and I never did it on externship and it has been like a year now. She said defiantly that we have a great team and that she will get back to me in two or three days. She never got back to me. I called her for about two weeks but she was never at her desk. Finally, I got her and she started yelling at me saying that I need to go back to school and start all over and she can't help me and slammed the phone down in my ear. Why would they graduate me if they thought I could not do anything. I feel that they have totally discriminated against me.

I am stuck with a loan that is getting bigger and bigger everyday. I am sad and disappointed and I feel like a failure in front of my two daughters. I totally lost the small about of confidence I had and I am confused and don't understand. Why graduate someone with a 94 average and all that hard work with nothing to show it for. I have been applying on line for over two years and not one interview. Everest wrote the resume I use. Is Everest Institute a scam?

I am currently an Everest University student. I started Everest University in 2006 to get my degree in Criminal Justice. In 2009, I earned my associate's degree, and I will earn my bachelor's degree in less than a year. Since I earned my associate's degree, I have applied to over a hundred jobs and have not gotten one phone call or one chance for an interview. The university said they are accredited, but they should go into more detail. Their career placement consists of them rewriting my resume and emailing me links of job search websites.

There are so many complaints about this college, and I am sure employers see these complaints and do not trust hiring graduates from this school. The school says they have a high rate of job placement, but I believe this to be false. I started college wanting to better myself and have a career in the Criminal Justice field. And now, I am realizing that I may have wasted 5 years of my life going to a college that is fraudulent. I owe thousands of dollars in student loans and for what? A piece of paper that says I have my degree but to employers, it is just that--a piece of paper.

I don't understand how this school can get away with this. They feed you a line that you are making the right decision about going to Everest University and that it is accredited. And they tell students they can transfer their credits when in fact, hardly any school will accept their credits. They also claim to offer job placement and have a high rate of finding students jobs once they graduate.

Well, for starters, I enrolled in this school back in August. Since the beginning, I informed them that I had issues with my computer and also limited access to one. They didn't seem to care. I also informed them I was a computer illiterate and needed some kind of help, and again they didn't even give me any help or info on services they might had. They only cared about me participating in class.

The second issue I have is financial aid. They never explained to me how everything is calculated. I am going on my third semester in school and never got a summary for my expenses. There's a bunch of shady stuff going on. In the school, for instance, with financial aid, I talked with this lady named Viola. She told me I had a refund of $3,000. Then it went from that to $1,500. And now I owe them because I wasn't eligible for financial aid for the fall semester because I wasn't a half or full-time student due to their error. I enrolled in two classes for the fall and my adviser called me to tell me it was crucial for me to participate in that class. Before the week's out, I had, but then she called me back the next day to let me know she messed up on the dates and I was dropped from the class in which case I wasn't half-time student. But my adviser didn't tell me any of this nor did she tell me the consequences that would affect me due to the class that I was dropped from.

I think this school misleads you. They don't do what they say they're gonna do, or even care. I can never get hold of my adviser. At least 3 months ago, I requested a tutor and I'm still waiting for a reply or a call back. It's been one disaster after another. I can't get my refund check and I owe them money for their mistake.

I felt that they did not do what they advertised on the television, about training you to get a better job. They told us we could be making $12 to $14 an hour after we finish their program, if we attend everyday, do all the work, and join in the cast on hand things. Well, I did all this. I am not making close to that. And they told us we can work at our own pace. That was a lie. We were put in a group of 4 to work together. And once that pod was done, it was done. And once the book was done, everyone was done. Also, when I went to the finical aide for help, they told me to bring in my W2 forms. So, I did. I filled out the fast loan. When I did, they argued with me, that we did not put my husband's security on it. I told them that it was done. The tax people have done it. They said I was wrong. I changed it again. So, that made me making too much now because they added my husband's security twice. To make a short story short, I didn't get what I went for at Everest. I feel I was cheated.

I know people that work for Everest. The guarantee life assistance with finding a job—this is a lie! I know firsthand once you find a job or if you're lucky once they help you find a job you are cut off! You will not get any additional assistance in finding a job. Also, god forbids you move—another school will not help you! Also, if it's been over a year since you graduated, most likely outcomes are done with and they are done helping you. Also, expect a ** job you could have gotten even if you never went to school. This includes babysitting if you gave medication, care giving, etc. Everest makes false promises and that is why I quit because I couldn't see it happen to honest individuals any longer.

I attended FMU for 3 years, which changed to Everest in my last year around October 2005 to April 2008. I was all prepared to receive my associate's degree in Criminal Justice and was preparing to possibly attend graduation ceremony in Florida. I was then notified by a person (Brian) that he represented the school and that I could not get my diploma or my transcripts because I owed the school eight to nine thousand dollars. I said how that could be because I had never paid out of pocket and always had financial aid (which I now owe over $30,000). He said that on one of my terms (which was not the last term) my financial aid was canceled and returned. I was never notified by the school that this money was owed by me or pending.

They just let me keep taking classes and never said anything about my balance owing to the school. I was scammed because now I cannot get my transfer credits to my new school or my transcripts, which means I wasted over $30,000 in student loans that I have to pay back for no proof of the education. Now I found out that my credits might not even be transferred to my new school even if I get the transcripts.

I enrolled in the online paralegal program in 2007. After about the first few semesters, I knew that it didn't seem like a good college in many aspects. Because this was the first time I ever attended college or an online college, I really wasn't sure what the 'norm' consisted of as far as the classwork, financal aspects, etc. Well, first of all they chose all my classes for me (I thought that was the norm) and registered me into as many classes as they could using my Pell Grant, subsidized and unsubsidized Stafford loans, which they advised me to apply for.

The financial office said this is how it needed to be done. They would order the books for me and I ended up with a small refund after the financial aid office used all these loans and grants. That seemed questionable and they assured me that this was correct and they would enroll me in every class that all the money would cover, even if it was more classes than I wanted to take. I even think the funds ran out early before the last semester as they wanted to make sure all my grants and loans were used up as quickly as possible. This was the impression I got from speaking with them. Then there were the actual online courses. We had to post paragraphs answering questions for the reading material for that week and make comments to a few classmates posts. I remember we would be given about 2 weeks to do this, which was way too much time to spend on one or two chapters and a few questions.

I would get it finished in about 3 days and have nothing else to do. Most classes were run in that manner. I received a 4.0 GPA when I am actually an average student who struggles academically. That really raised red flags for me. I decided to do research into other colleges that had better reviews and integrity. I found one that was very different from Everest. I was expected to chose, register, and order my own books.

At Everest they did all this and you didn't have a choice. I was told the cost of each class and could take as few or many as I could handle at my new college. I was also advised I could drop one of my loans to have less to pay back after I earned my degree from Columbia College. Needless to say, Everest was not happy with my decision to withdraw. They tried to talk me out of it and would only send unofficial transcripts to Columbia College. When I called to complain that I really needed the official transcripts for my new college, these calls were ignored as the person I spoke to said they would be sent but did not send them. Soon after I was issued a $900 and something refund of my overpayment to them of my Stafford loans.

The next time that I called to request my official transcripts they stated I owed them close to $1,000 and would not send my official transcripts until they were paid. I request some kind of proof and they refused. Now after going to my current school for over 2 years, they require the official transcripts or I will not be able to attend anymore after January 2011. I am really upset at the way Everest can get away with being such a bad school and ripping students off. I see many commercials where they seem to want to attract low-income students who are not familiar with the college norms. I have written the BBB and the other agencies to look into my allegations but no one is doing anything. I just don't understand how they can get away with being such a low class college. Is it that the majority of their students believe that because they are a school they must meet certain standards and their practices are the norm?

They are holding my official transcripts hostage when they have provided absolutely no evidence that I owe this money. Why did they send me a tuition refund check after I had made many attempts to obtain my transcripts? I had all these loans and grants and I feel they owe me money if anything. They need to be exposed for what they do. I think that they do not have a good reputation, so many graduates will not be hired by reputable companies as I have read many other posts on this site who have these problems.

They have many commercial geared toward low-income, impressionable people promising how they will have a better life if they go to Everest. They play constantly all afternoon in the Tampa Bay area on MY TV Tampa Bay when jobless people are at home. How can they be forced to provide proof that I owe this money? I really need help and advise. I would love to be contacted about this "college".

The place is so disorganized. The teachers don't care. And when looking for a job, doctors and hospitals seriously laugh at you for telling them what school you went to. It's a waste of time. Now thanks to them, my credit is ** because I have to pay them back. I think everyone who has attended this place should be shut down and refunded the money they paid or owe. Bottom line, stay far, far away!

Yes, well, maybe not. I have over $50,000 in debt, with no degree and my credits don't transfer.

I cannot even begin to describe the disappointment and pain this school has caused me. They even contacted my 79-year-old father trying to get me to agree to an additional loan! Horrible would be a compliment for this institution.

I withdrew from our community college to enroll in Everest Institute because of the "hands-on" training and "small classes" they advertised on TV. Upon enrolling to the school, I met with a financial adviser who explained what loans I would need to take out ($9500.00 to be exact) just to cover costs of tuition/books. $15,600 is what I am paying to attend for 8 months at Everest. I asked about other ways to cover personal expenses while attending school full time, I was haphazardly "tossed" a self-loan application and was told, "This is all I can tell you to try!"

What she didn't mention was you had to find a co-signer and "if" you were approved, you would not get that money until your 7th mod! What the heck good is that! Anyways, I've been finding out about a lot of things regarding Everest/Bryman/Corinthian Colleges that they "fail" to mention at your admissions/financial application with a representative. They charge us for room and board, meals, and personal hygiene! All of us students live at home! They don't provide us with so much as paper towel/napkins in our lounge, let alone provide meals.

There are "major" problems regarding externships and graduation rates, etc. I, along with more than half of my classmates at Everest as a whole, want to file a class action lawsuit against Everest/Bryman/Corinthian College or whatever they want to call themselves! A lot of students are worried about "possible back draft" from this but said they will back me on this suit and will sign petitions regarding all the lies and or serious omissions of facts just to get our money and leaving us out dry! Had I known when applying what I know about them now, would I have come to Everest? Heck to the no! Can someone please help us unsuspecting students (past, present, future) bring Everest/Corinthian College to their knees? I've learned that Everest Institute was "court ordered" to due a number of things, or lose all title IV funding nationwide!

I was attending Bryman College in Hayward in the year of 2003. During the time the staff told be that everything was going to be easy to complete and get a job. So I enrolled myself in Medical classes. I had good grades and completed all assignments that had to be done before graduating. I did as told in order to get a job. When I completed the school, the staff would not help me find a job, they threw all these bills at me saying I had to pay, which first I didn't know when enrolling in Bryman.

So after graduating I went to the school plenty of times trying to get help in getting a job. I also went on my own, but no one would hire me because of less experience. Everywhere I applied for I got the same answer. I don't know why the school would lie to me saying that it will be so easy to find a job after graduating. I trusted them before signing my papers. Now 7 years passed by and I still can't get any job in the medical field. That is why Bryman changed their name to Everett because of false advertisement!

I started classes as an MAA in April 2009. When I was down to the last two or three days, I still didn't have an extern site. My coordinator brought in this couple from Asbury Gardens, which is right down the street from the school and like a retirement community, to interview me. I interviewed with Joseph and Julie and was told that I would be notified on whether or not they were going to take me. I got a call from Julie that same night asking me if I would be interested on the spot and of course, thinking that it was so close to the school, I asked Julie to let me check on the bus schedule and once I had done that I called back and accepted the site.

Here's where it gets a little tricky. I called the bus company over the weekend to confirm the schedule just to make sure I could get to the site and guess what? They no longer ran buses by my house at 6am as according to the schedule posted online. I, of course, tried to contact Asbury to speak with Julie but was told that she was on maternity leave. I thought it sounded a little weird because I had just seen her at the school 2 days prior. I left a message hoping they would get it to her in time.

So Monday comes and I'm supposed to start at the site. I can't make it there and I started to get really nervous to the point where I am having anxiety attacks. I've had these before and they get really bad so I wanted to go see the doctor. I called to speak with Sandy, the lady I was supposed to meet with when I arrive onsite, to tell her I was going to go to the doctor and she told me that I would need to talk to Joseph, the administrator, before coming down.

So the next week and a half, I called. I don't know how many times to try and speak with this guy and never got into contact with him. I got a phone call from my coordinator at school telling me that the site doesn't want me anymore because I didn't go to my first day. How can I go to my first day if I can't get there? Anyway, I stayed in contact with the school and they had me set up to go to this other doctor's office in Oswego and I was told I could take the bus there. Easy enough, right? I know Pace Bus very well.

I've been taking it since I was eight years old by myself. I think I know how far the buses go, where they stop and so on. So the doctor's office in Oswego calls to setup an interview. At first, I agreed to go down there but after seeing that the bus didn't go out that far, I had to cancel it. I was then given this lecture by my coordinator that I can take the bus right to the site. The bus only goes as far as the Kmart in Montgomery and that is it! So since I missed that site, everything kind of came to a standstill for a while.

I asked the coordinators at Everest why can't I be placed in town and do you know what I was told? I was told that it would be difficult for me to get a site because I didn't speak Spanish. I was back and forth on the phone and writing emails to my department chair and when I told her what they said she was appalled and was going to help me get to the bottom of things. My instructor, who was amazing, even offered to come to my house and pickup my USB key to help me with my resume, unfortunately, things were not working in my favor and I was told that I would have to find a site on my own at this point since I was dropped from my first site for not going and couldn't get to any of the others.

I started going through the phone book, calling doctors, dentists, clinics, hospitals, and I found a couple that sounded really good and when I spoke to them they sounded interested in helping me. I'm supposed to notify my coordinator when I've spoken to someone and when I did, I was always met with the same response that they spoke with the site and the site does not want me. What is my coordinator telling them that she is not telling me?

I'm running in circles at this point trying to find a site because I want to get done and graduate. I'm thinking that I'm just about out of options by now when I get a phone call from this chiropractor in Wheaton asking me to come down and interview. I knew right away that I couldn't get out to Wheaton because of the transportation issue. I called and told my extern coordinator and she said, "Don't worry. We'll get you to the site just go to the interview." And when I mentioned that to the person calling, they said they live here in town. Maybe they can give me a ride. So the way I understood it was, is the girl at the site and my coordinator were working together and they were going to help me.

Now, I realize that this is not their responsibility to make sure I get to my site. I know better than that. This is why I wanted to say no to the interview but feeling as though I was backed into a corner by the externship coordinators at my school, I went. Everything went well there the doctor was really nice and wanted me to start on Monday. So as I'm leaving, Erica, the girl who called me to setup the interview, took my number and said that she'd call me to talk about the transportation. I was supposed to start that following Monday at 9am and when Erica didn't call me I became worried. I called and left a message for her and when she called back she said that when I was being interviewed, the doctor's wife was also interviewing and had already chosen someone else for the site.

Everybody makes mistakes. I get that so we talked and agreed to make arrangements to start at a later time. I got a call from Everest asking why I wasn't on site and I told them the whole thing about what Erica had said. They called the doctor's office and the next thing you know, I was scheduled to start on that Wednesday. Erica said that she'd pick me up. Well, Wednesday rolls around and I'm getting ready to go. I am waiting, waiting but Erica never showed. Frantic, I call the school to let them know what is going on, having to leave a message because nobody was available. I then called the doctor's office and Erica wasn't there yet so I left a message for her to call me.

When she did, she told me about how she now was not sure that she could give me a ride to the site because she no longer lives in Aurora, she lives in West Chicago. She said, "Do you think you can make it in today?" Luckily, we had some inclement weather that day and my mom stayed home so I drove her car out to Wheaton. I was supposed to go back on Friday and Erica did pick me up but we were late. That's when she dropped the bombshell about not being able to come and get me. Well, it would've been nice before we got this thing started because now it's going to reflect badly on me when I have to tell my coordinator why I can't go to my site.

I was dropped from the program not long after that. Okay, when you are filling out your externship paperwork in your 5th module, they give you this card and on this card there is a space for areas you would like to be placed. I specifically put in Aurora first because I live here and Montgomery as a secondary option. I never once listed Oswego, Wheaton, or Naperville as potential places that I could go. Now, let me tell you about some experiences I had during class while enrolled. About the 3rd or 4th module, a new student came into the class named Mary. She seemed really nice, a little bit older than the bulk of the students there but everybody has the right to do something better with their lives right, so who am I to judge?

It wasn't until the second module that I had with her in class that we all started to notice something was not quite right with Mary. She would come in sometimes all jittery, leave the classroom numerous times throughout the day, only to discover that Mary was coming to class intoxicated and she was bringing the alcohol with her. It got so bad after a while that the class time was being disrupted on a daily basis because of this. She was eventually taken out and removed from the program only to be allowed back 10 days later. She started drinking and disrupting the class time again with my teacher having to take time away from the rest of the rule-abiding student body to deal with these issues, to having to be escorted out by Ms. ****, the Director of Education, to my instructor being put in the hospital because of the stress it caused her.

What makes me mad about this is that according to Everest College's Student Code of Conduct, which we read aloud at the beginning of every module and which I have a copy of, it clearly states the school's zero tolerance policy on being intoxicated on school grounds and what it can mean if you are found to be so. I even found out that after I left the school, Mary was still causing problems for the class, was sent to AA but was then found at a bar across the street during the class lunch hour. Here's why I'm upset at the school but before I get into that, let me explain that I admit to having made several mistakes during my tenure as a student. First, that I didn't research the bus schedule more thoroughly.

Secondly, agreeing to the site when I wasn't sure that I could get there or not and lastly, being dependent on someone else to get me to and from my site. With that said, I am upset because while I may have also made mistakes, I still need the help of the school to finish and cannot receive it because of them yet someone who comes to class drunk can keep violating the student code of conduct by coming to class drunk and nothing is going to happen to that student. Having that experience with Mary and seeing how the administration responded to it was absolutely astounding to me. I followed the rules, I never put anyone's safety at risk.

The only problems I have had with this school are through my student adviser. When I started school in April of 2009, I had the help of a very nice lady who was open to all of my questions and concerns; she even got me a copy of Microsoft Office when I told her all I had was the free trial. A few months later, while I was signing up for my next term's classes, I was informed that this adviser had been let go and I would be reassigned to someone new.

Not only was he not as helpful as my first student adviser, but he really doesn't care about his job or his students. The first email I received from him was in a font I could not read at all and it was bright yellow. I had to copy and paste the email into Word so I could change the font and color. He later sent an apology email for the unprofessional way he sent the first. Since then, I have received multiple emails telling me I am on academic probation followed by emails stating I was not on probation (which wasn't surprising with my perfect 4.0 GPA) and that the email should have been sent to specific students instead of to all students.

This particular student adviser has made me feel as if he's doing me a favor by sending me my books and signing me up for classes. Because I was already in the process of signing up for classes when I was assigned to him, I expected he would complete the signup process with me. After a very simple email letting him know which classes I chose, he informed me that I must take my classes in the order he chooses. I then informed him that I will be choosing my classes on my own or I will be taking my business elsewhere.

He complied to an extent; he signed me up for 2 of the classes I wanted and refused to let me take more than that in a term. At the rate he wanted me to go, I would have taken 3 years to complete a 2 year degree. My first adviser agreed with my thoughts of completing it in 18 months and was working on a schedule with me. I was very upset when I was told the very earliest I could complete the course was 2-1/2 years. As far as I can tell, there is no reason at all for me to be taking fewer classes than necessary to complete my degree in 2 years, especially considering I keep a 4.0 GPA in all classes.

Recently, I had to sign up for my Spring classes. Even after my financial adviser cleared me for full time, my student adviser told me my loans will only pay for part time. After numerous emails back and forth to both my financial and student advisers, I was again cleared for full time. My student adviser wasn't pleased that I didn't sit back and let him control my education apparently, because he didn't inform me of anything after that.

I knew the next term was starting soon, but I didn't know what date. I also hadn't received my confirmation for the classes I enrolled in for the coming term. I emailed and called my student adviser to ask if I had been enrolled in classes, when I would receive my books and what the start date would be for the coming term. I was sent a very rude email with a link to the Everest website. He informed me that I could find everything I needed from the site, which by the way is completely false.

I called the 800 number listed on the site and they told me I would need to contact my adviser. I called the financial adviser instead, who gave me the date. I emailed my student adviser, still determined to force him to do his job, and told him there was no information on the school website. He returned my email about 2 weeks after the start of class and attached a school calendar. He told me I should keep it handy so I will always know the start and vacation dates.

My question to him, "if you had this the whole time, why couldn't you send it to me a month ago? " Of course, he never commented on that. I am truly worried that I will not be allowed to complete my studies within the 2 years it should take. I'm also worried that he will "accidentally" put me on academic probation or lose my information. My original student adviser called me at least once a week to make sure everything was running smoothly. This "man" has never once called me and only emails when he sends out mass emails to let all of his students know they are failing, even the ones who aren't. I suppose the school didn't want someone helping the students do their best so they had to can my first adviser and gave me this guy who probably only shows up the one day a month he sends out mass emails. The way he runs things, my 7 year old should have no problem replacing him if need be!

I attended Everest College back in August 31, 2009. I decided that this school was not for me and would not be worth the money so I cancelled my contract within the 5 business days which was on September 5, 2009. Everything went well until a few months later I received a call from a collection agency stating that I had an $800.00 bill that needs to be paid. I obviously had no balance with the school since I had cancelled my contract on time and every material had been returned. I called Everest and informed them of the call I received and they had called the agency and clarified everything. I was happy with that and went on about my life.

Now, nearly a year later, I receive yet another statement from a collection agency indicating that I have a $170.00 unpaid balance with Everest College. Furious by this, I personally show up at the school with the statement in hand and of course, the person I was supposed to see was "gone for the day". The person who I spoke to at the time, told me she would e-mail the person who should help solve the problem and I will receive a phone call from her within the next day or two. Of course, that did not happen and I had to contact them myself. I finally get a hold of Coleen and I am now being told that the reason for my balance with for "tuition", meaning I have no cancelled my contract within the time allowed. I asked her to look at the contract copy and she said it wasn't even signed to begin with! I couldn't believe what she was saying. How could they tell me I did not sign the contract when I personally went to the campus and had all different types of witnesses speak to me about my cancellation? I even remember them giving me an additional paper to sign for the cancellation. I am so desperate now to retrieve my records because I did not save my one and only signed copy! Now I have to find a way to speak to someone else there and obtain that copy! Do not go to Everest they are money hungry! They will get your money whether you owe or don't!

I am so sad and disappointed. I attended this school in 2008, and while there, I was a 3.8 GPA student on the dean's honor roll. Right after winter term was done which I passed and finished all the classes with straight A's, I got extremely sick with chronic asthma attacks. I then was instructed by a doctor to not return to school to start a new term.

2 months later, I wanted to sign back up but couldn't till I paid a bill. I received a bill for $800.00 stating it was reported to a collections agency and it was delinquent. for 2 classes I supposedly showed up to and dropped out of, which I didn't. Both dates, I was lying in a hospital bed with nebulizer machines hooked up to my face.

My sister-in-law signed up with me and had every class with me as well. She is a live witness that I never attended that class! So I went in to speak to the billing office to see if they could clear the matter up. Boy was I in for a ride that would last months! Every one in there gave me the runaround, saying I need to speak to different people. They send you to everyone, including the dean who ignores all students and parents who try to even look at him. He basically gets paid to sit in his office, pretending to be a dean to students. (lol)The dean made the secretaries tell me he's in a meeting for a month.

So I spoke to the director of medical billing and coding, he is nice but can't do anything about a bill. He knows me and my sister-in-law very well and actually told her everyday "When is Crystal coming back?" So he is another witness I never showed up for those 2 days! Then I actually got a hold of the teacher for that class who stated quizzes are ways she gets attendance in which she has no record of me taking any or signing in the scan tron or out of the class. But she stated there's no evidence I ever was there. But that also means there's no evidence I wasn't there either. Surprise, surprise. She spoke to the dean and called me back. All he had to say was there's nothing he can do. Hahaha, of course! Want to know why?

Well, I spoke to another counselor in another campus who is trying to get me to sign up there, and he said $800.00 is only pennies to Everest, so no one really will take my complaints serious. Every single person giving me the runaround just keeps saying just pay the money, so I can re-sign up already. After all this plus what I've read on here about people getting scammed, no way in hell am I going to let them rob me of additional thousands of dollars!

Do not got to Everest. They love to sell dreams, but really, they walk around with empty heads and hearts, just trying to get the paycheck and following protocols made up by the greedy person who created Everest.

These colleges tell you that they can prepare you for a better career and help you be successful in life but what they fail to tell you is that when you finish school and go and seek employment, these clinics will absolutely refuse to hire people with less than 2 yrs experience.

It has affected me emotionally and financially because I still have to pay back 12,000 dollars for a job that refuses to hire me due to lack of experience and because I only speak English, which is also not fair.

"This is an e-mail re-guarding the situations that have occurred at Everest College Renton, WA from Sept. 2008 - now. First situation happened when our instructor told us, the middle of November 2008, that she was going to be having a major surgery and would be gone for a month. When we all returned to Everest in January 2009 we had our regular instructor for three days, then a substitute came to finish the rest of the week.

From that first week on we had every staff member come in and out of our classroom, asking us what we are supposed to be working on. A staff member (whoever was available) would come in every Friday and give us our tests for the week. This went on for three weeks until we had another instructor come to our rescue and take over our class as our permanent substitute instructor. Which after complaining to the staff for two weeks she then became our permanent instructor. I feel that if it wasn't for her I would have not learned anything because I felt there was no other staff member who cared to teach like she did.

Second situation came about in May 2009, after preparing for externship in April with Career Services, I was told by my coordinator that I had an externship at a dental office in Snoqualmie, WA (2nd week of April). The fourth week in April she notified me that they just hired people, and that she found another site (up the hill).

Two weeks later (in May) she called and told me that the office up the hill has too many extern's and that she would call me back if she found anything else. I get a call from my coordinator (later that week) about 2 PM on a Friday, telling me I need to have an interview or I'll be dropped from school. So, I call my own doctor as instructed by my coordinator to see if he could write me off for an interview, as I told him my progress through-out the school year. Another week went by and I get a call from my coordinator informing me that she found an extern in Everett, WA and that she was going to try and set up an interview.

At the end of next week (beginning of June now) I finally got through to talk with my coordinator on progress with the extern in Everett. My coordinator Informs me that the office had too many bad experiences with the Everett campus, and that I would again be dropped if I didn't have an interview by the end of that day. So, at this point I feel angry because I read (in the contract) that I am guaranteed an extern, but not a job when I signed up for school in Sept 2008.

I felt that they get paid to find our externships so why am I not being informed in a timely manor of what is going on, so I can make arrangements for childcare. More than once I have been put into a situation where I was in need of finding child care immediately, and then I have to run off to try and get into a site in an unrealistic amount of time. So a month and a half goes by and never once had a call from the school about an externship, I called often to try and see why there is such a problem getting the required externship I need to finish school. I called again to get enrolled for an extern at the beginning of July 2009.

My coordinator finds a Chiropractic Office in Kent, WA, I do my interview, and start on July 27th, 2009. I worked for three days, and walk in the office on the fourth day when the Dr. informs me she does not need my help and my coordinator was supposed to notify me the day before. When I got back home to talk with my coordinator she informed me that the Dr. thought Everest was a temp agency. I then go through again being dropped and re-enrolled, but this time I have my old Instructor as my new coordinator. She finds a clinic in Tumwater, WA where I was currently residing. I do my interview with the program manager of the clinic on August 25th, 2009.

She informs me that she needs help in her office cause her front office person was going to be gone for three weeks, and that I needed to train with him for a week before he leaves. Then my new coordinator contacts me to let me know I got the extern site and that I would have to start on a start date. When I call the clinic to start, she says that the date was not going to work for her. Again I sit and wait disappointed that I have no extern like promised. When I get a call from my new coordinator telling me two weeks later the same thing my old coordinator told me, that I was going to be dropped if I didn't do an interview by the end of the day.

Months go by with no phone calls from the school. My family has been involved through the whole situation and has seen how this has affected me emotionally, mentally, physically and financially. I sometimes sit and think about how many students went through the same course after me and have had the same problem or got their externship and are either done or finishing soon. I feel that I am being pushed aside just because I called corporate and made my initial complaint. The staff in Renton seemed to have been quite offended that I exercised my right to call and try to get the ball rolling that I feel the school has dropped. I could have went to another medical type tech school and probably received the education, credits and dedication from the staff to help as promised.

At the beginning of this year on January 4th, 2010 I go into the school to re-enroll again, this time they loose my paper work (I call Cooperate). I talk to my new coordinator to get the ball rolling, I'm told my hours from before won't count, that she will find something and I could start on Jan. 6th, 11th or the 19th (I chose the 19th). I get a message from my new coordinator on the 25th @ 12 PM, telling me that I need to come down to the school that night to get the first day report, address of the site, and MAA folder. I get the message and call her @ 3:30 PM to let her know I had no one to watch my daughter in that short of a notice (as I discussed with her before). My family as I said before has been involved and called my new coordinator concerning the situation.

She said that she went out of her way to get this site to allow me to be there and that no matter what I had to be there and to show up with less than 24 hrs notice, (She knew about start date 3 days prior) that it is my fault if I don't show on Tues. Jan. 26th. Well, I told my new coordinator I could not go in that little of notice, so I didn't go. My new coordinator then called Feb 3rd angry at me telling me I need to put myself first, so I asked when was she notified that I could start, She then replied Jan. 22nd. If I would have found out on the day she was told, then there would have been no problems.

I was dropped again, but this time I did some searching myself and contacted my new coordinator to let her know what I was doing. I was then encouraged to find my own site or a place that I would like to work at on my own. Once I was told that, it seems like they gave up and moved on to new students. I had found a few sites, but one really good site at a clinic 5min. away from my house in Lakewood.

So I re-enrolled March 8th, 2010 when my new coordinator informed me that the school was linked with the clinic and that the Clinic's Student Placement was not impressed with being contacted by students. I also, was told that the clinic required a background check along with a drug test. I went home thinking to myself " If Everest is linked with the clinic then why didn't I have an externship sooner?".

I was contacted March 12th, 2010 by my new coordinator letting me know there was a test I need to take over the weekend online and to be at the clinic on March 15th at 8 a.m.. I took a test on-line and showed up @ the Clinic as instructed. When I got there the Supervisor was unaware that I was supposed to be there, and that she was not informed I was cleared by the clinic's student placement to start yet (so I was sent home).

As of March 17th, 2010 I woke up hoping something good. I call the Clinic's supervisor as discussed with her Monday, she informed me that I was very professional and she would love to have me in her office. But, Unfortunately the clinic's student placement informed her they no longer want to have Everest extern's in they facilities. I then feel very angry, I found my own extern and lost it because of Everest.

I called Corporate Campus Support and left message then he calls me back at 10:25 a.m, Corporate call center (left message), Everest renton (left message), and Corporate Financial (left message). I have contacted the Dean to set up a time to meet with her on March 5th (when I get a flat), we reschedule for the 8th to come inn. Front office staff told me the dean was in a meeting and it would be an hour and a half, and that I could leave her a message to call me (I later called to find out she was never giving the message).

I have called corporate in the past many times and nothing has changed. I'm really disappointed in this college and if I knew what I know now, I would have never wasted my time and money with Everest College (I would have went somewhere else). I see commercials all the time for Everest portraying this fake environment, (I wish it would have went that smooth) but instead my life sits on hold even though there is no pause button. I want to get on with my career and with this holding me back it makes it hard to feel like I am being helped by the school that promises, guarantees, and that I invested in for a career.

Now I'm stuck with debt from student loans. I have requested my money to be returned to me in a timely manor so I can take my career opportunity elsewhere. But, as of April 18th, 2010 nothing has been solved except being told if this is not cleared up by May 15th, 2010 then I loose my chances of a refund and an extern. I can't thank you enough for hearing me and trying to help with this disappointment and maybe saving other people with this problem aswell. "

I started Everest in Feb. 2008, I've been complaining ever since. We complained about Dwayne B. our instructor at the time the Mrs. J. About him not knowing how to code and talking with his kids on the phone. And then the next day a ma,de of few of us Amassabors. To keep us quite. Dwayne got promoted and Mrs. J. walk out because she thought the promotion should have been hers and she thought, Dwayne went behind her back to get that job. Then we went to the Assistant Dean and complain and nothing happened. We went in order of change of commands.

Now, it is time for my intern. I went for MIBC (Medical Insurance Billing and Coding) and Careers Services sent me to a Plasma Center. That has nothing to do with my field. When I told them this is not what I went to school for, they did not find me another intern site to go to. I constantly complain over and over and even email the president of the college, and still nothing happen. I didn't get the job at the Plasma Center because I went to Everest, I got that job because I had experience in Customer Service. And I started that job the first day along with my intern.

They want me to pay for my student fees and I didn't received the proper education that was promised to me. I took the Coding test and passed and have not yet to received my certificate. It took me 2 months just to get my diploma. Some of my other classmates went to Urgent Care, Insurances, Doctor"s Office and they sent me to a Plasma Center which has nothing to with coding. So tell me what is wrong with that picture. I took that course to be behind the scene not in front.

I came into this institution looking for a new career path in the medical field. I found myself choosing the surgical technologist program. As a student, I found myself loving what I was studying. My passion for my new career path was met with a few rewards. I became the very first Ambassador of this program. I offered tutoring for my fellow peers at no charge. I won the ambassador of the month award for helping my classmates. This was enough to make me feel as a top student.

I graduated with a 3.67 GPA and was now ready to work after completing my externship. I went to my career services department to finish up my resume by a person who has no experience in the medical field. I was told that the school doesn't aid you in finding a job at a hospital, but it would aid me with anything else. Now I asked about a cosmetic surgeon's office and was told that "I'm the wrong sex and that the employers who they called would inform them not to send any male applicants." At this moment, I was surprised to learn of this.

I was later told by this same person that every student has a call log that shows exactly how many times a student has been called for job interview from the career services department. Up to this day, I have yet to be called for any interviews. The school one day calls me up about a "Job Club" and if I would like to attend, I would need to arrive in interview attire with my resume. I went and found it to be a waste of my time since there were no employers to whom my resume could be turned over to. Instead they had pizza and soda and gave people a sheet of paper with over 20 questions so that everyone at this event would interact.

Now I did get discouraged and gave up. So I thought I would go back and get my Associate in business. I hated the course and dropped it after 4 months. When I tried to attend another school, I was informed that "Everest was still taking money from my Pell Grant for 2 months after I dropped my course". Just recently I found out that I could have avoided owing more money to the school if I had done an unemployment deferment since I still can't find a job. Now where is the justice and the information for the students? Someone please help us.

I have been attending FMU, now Everest University since 2005. They recently had a staff change in their Financial Aid dept. I was contacted in late December to get my financial aid in, which I did. Since then, nothing seems to be correct. I re-did my FAFSA and yet there always seemed to be something missing. They needed an appeals letter. I wrote that. They needed a payment plan set-up and I did that.

On Friday 02/26/10, everything was fine but I noticed after all the paperwork that I submitted and all the phones calls as well as email, the school has a very mean person named Brian, the collections supervisor, who called me to state as of 02/22/2010 I owe them $10000. I asked him how this was possible and he stated that my Sallie Mae funding was returned and that I owe the money. Just like that, he couldn't tell why or how this happened. He was very non-informative and cold. I asked him if he worked for the school or a credit agency and he said for the school. I am very upset about this and feel that I should have certain rights.

This school recruiting office was told not to call last week but since then, they have called almost everyday multiple times a day. I called 5 times on 1/26/10 and I told them not to call. They called 4 times on 1/27/10. This school is a nuisance and calls in a highly harassing manner. I investigated online and others have reported that they have experienced the same treatment. This company needs to be stopped from abusing individuals.

This number has called me at least 10 times a day, 7 days a week for the past 4 weeks. It is a message system and I have called the number back and attempted to follow their steps to get on their do not call list at least 3 times, but they continue to call me.

I was a student at Everest University, I attended this "school" in 2007, I want to WARN anyone that is fortunate enough to read this before going to enroll in this "school".PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, don't waste not only your time and money but as well as for those of you that want to go back to school because of mistakes you made in the past and or high school, don't let this so called school rob you of that experience as well. It makes me sad, angry, and upset that these people don't care about not one of the students, the only priority that this school has is making money. The teachers don't teach you anything that can be retained, the extern coordinator Ms. Williams has this, I'm better than all of you attitude and she doesn't care about any of her students. She made promises that she would help us find a job...I guess she ment in the next lifetime!!

In July 2000 I enrolled at Florida Metropolitan University; now Everest University. I majored in Criminal Justice: attended school three day a week for four years; earning a 3.0 average. While at the school I was told by several persons that the school was not accredited, I addressed the school about this accusation and was told it was; I completed my studies 5 years ago and still has not landed a job. I have tried to further my degree to obtain a Master's Degree in Psychology but has been denided because I do not match the credentials for me to attend their campuses. I have filled many application but no one will hire me; again due to the University that I attended. I am working as a Certified Nursing Assistant which has put me way behind the scale of pay with a Bachelor Degree. My check is being garnished due to the fact that I am not making enough money to pay back the lenders.I have wasted 4 years of my life in a school that has not benefited me anything. Long hours with no results. I have a degree in my hand but can't do anything with it.paying back money I don't have and struggling to do so. It is hard to depend on anyone for help especially financially.

In July 2000 I enrolled at Florida Metropolitan University; now Everest University. I majored in Criminal Justice: attended school three day a week for four years; earning a 3.0 average. While at the school I was told by several persons that the school was not accredited, I addressed the school about this accusation and was told it was; I completed my studies 5 years ago and still has not landed a job. I have tried to further my degree to obtain a Master's Degree in Psychology but has been denided because I do not match the credentials for me to attend their campuses. I have filled many application but no one will hire me; again due to the University that I attended. I am working as a Certified Nursing Assistant which has put me way behind the scale of pay with a Bachelor Degree. My check is being garnished due to the fact that I am not making enough money to pay back the lenders.I have wasted 4 years of my life in a school that has not benefited me anything. Long hours with no results. I have a degree in my hand but can't do anything with it.paying back money I don't have and struggling to do so. It is hard to depend on anyone for help especially financially.

I'm currently a student at Everest Institute now, and my course will be completed on Aug 20, 2009, which is tomorrow. This school has been nothing but problems. First, of all, the coordinator over MIBC program quit, before giving us our internships, which is required for completion. Once, several students heard of the bad news the coordinator's boss, Ms. White was approached and she stated that it has not been 24hrs.,since the coordinator quit and that she was not going to be bother with the situation of internships for graduating students in the MIBC program, she grabbed her belongings and went home. So,I think it's fair to speak that Everest Institute of Southfield is in breach of their own contract regarding the completion requirements Of the MIBC program.

Now, on to a different topic about Everest's Institute. My teacher, who has the worse attitude a so-called professional is suppose to have. She knows her coding and billing well, but some people are not meant to be teachers. Our learning consist of 99.9% homework (don't think about working and if your working be prepared to quit)and 1% classroom teaching, when she is not smoking or running the hallways with the MIBC INTRO teacher like their high school students. Then, maybe when she's in a good mode or someone is stroking her ego,you can ask her a question about your homework (coding cases)before she goes off in front of class. She also, struggles with being in class to teach because of her health issues, which is not fair to the students who are there and paying $14,000+ for 8 months of no training. I can say that myself and a few of my classmates have seeked tutors outside the school, just so that we can get by without failing. This is suppose to be a course about Medical Billing & Coding, it would be proper to at least go over 2 hospital coding cases in Next Step per day for students to get a thorough understanding if the medical field is foreign to students.

This teacher also, lets two students that buys her lunch on a regular basis take an hour or more lunch, policy states that students get half lunches and if we're late then we get marked tardy. If you were to look at the attendence sheets for the last 8 months, one of the two students I mention before, comes to class just about every night 2hrs. or more late and her attendence is marked present without any tardies, left-early, or absents. The other student has got perfect attendence in all her modules and she has been absent more than me. PLEASE LISTEN!!!!!

Anyone considering attending this school please, reconsider another school. First, they dont't give information about the programs over the phone, they will schedule you for an appointment. When you come in everything looks professional, until the door open and the a rep comes to get you. 90% of the staff thinks that it's a fashion show and your being rushed into a testing room to take a test before knowing any thing about the program your interested in. Once, you get financed in every bit of 30mins. Then, everything really goes downhill from here. You get $1500 in books that you will not even open and can't return them for a refund. But, what takes the cake is that I paid the balance of my tuition, that was due off and comes the time for my mock interview, I had to get a petition signed stating that everything was completed in order to move on to the phrase for internship and I go to the finance dept and they tacked on more fees,when my balances was alright paid off, and their excuse was,"that the fess are for an updated book for my course, that I haven't receive yet and tomorrow is my last day! EVERYONE PLEASE TAKE CAUTION WITH EVEREST INSTITUE, DO IT AT YOUR OWN RISK, I WOULD HATE TO SAY I TOLD YOU SO!!!!!

The director of Business Ms.Milligan screwed up my schedule and put me in classes that my finances would not cover. I ended up paying for a class I never attended. I had not even purchased my books for that class. When I brought it to their attention they said dont worry about it we will take care of it. Yea they took care of it alright! They let it go. I thought it had been taken care of until I got my grades and I noticed a big F for that class. So I went back in and the dean and the business director witch are close buddies by the way. They both said my instructor for that class said I sat in on that class for the first two day's even though I never attended even one. The dean then started stating alot of legal crap and said I should read our school policies and then they failed me I never got a chance to confront the instructor that said I was in her class and they charged me for that class anyway! I was then placed on academic probation. I am now still attending school but I have no choice I have to stay.

I am almost done unfortunitly I am harrassed every day by the business director she calls my house all the time accusing me of not attending my classes she follows me to my classes and claims to just be sitting in but she stares at me the whole time she is in our class with a mean face . She throws her wait around with the instructors trying her best to make things as hard as possible for me with my classes. I dont know what to do I am responsible for over 30 thousand dollars worth of loans and they recently took out another loan on me without my permission. with only two semesters left to complete and a business director looking for revenge on me for tyring to stand up for what is right. I am trapped and cant do any thing about it. This whole college experience has turned out to be a nightmare.

I received a book for a class today, only to find out that I have been unknowingly enrolled in their school. Years ago I received an MBA from FMU, which is now known as Everest College. I have never requested information or spoken to anyone at Everest. I haven't filled out forms, I haven't signed anything and they aren't even using my new last name that I acquired 9 months ago, a name that I use on everything. I can only assume that they used my previous information on file to re-enroll me in classes without my permission and hold me responsible for tuition and book payments.

I'm unaware of the school taking out an student loan on me. I attended the school in August 2003-March 2004. The school has now turned the loan over to the Edfund Department of Education in California. This came to my knowledge on March 2008, when I filed my refund for 2008 and didn't receive it because the department had taken it. My complaint has not been investigated by neither the school or the Edfund collections agency.

Edfund will be collecting my refund checks or has threatened to take out of my payroll checks if I don't pay the fee of over $4,000 that been accumulating for the past 6 years.

Hello, I am writing to get some information about a student who attended Everest College formerly known as Bryman College in school year 2003/2004r. I am requesting for a copy of the ability to benefit test results and also a copy of the monthly fees that the student Myesha ** was accounted for. Myesha Attended Bryman to get educated in the medical field for Medical Administrative Assistant, she completed all her courses but was not able to complete her extern on the basis of not paying her monthly fees. I need a copy of the notice she signed, stating that she was accountable for the fees, and also, I need a copy stating that if she did not pay the fees that it would be covered by student loans.

Myesha kept in touch with the school advising them that she did not have the fees that were due at the time, they advised her that she could not do her extern until these fees were paid, she was never advised that student loans had covered her fees and that she could do her extern. When she contacted the school after a 2-month period of them telling her that she had to pay her monthly fees, the school advised her that they were already paid. Can I please have a copy of the policy on contacting students, to inform them of changes to their account status, and how often does the school keep the students informed of updated information. I'm closing this letter and will wait on a response after a 10-day period, if I don't get a response, I will send after letter. I have pals of loans that I cannot afford, I was misinformed and my credit was taken advantage of.

I attended Bryman College in San Francisco, CA. When I enrolled in the program, I was told all kind of things like the salary for an Ophthalmic Technician was at least 20.00 p/h to start. I chose the Ophthalmic Technician Program because it interested me. The lady who was my represenative at the time told me that the school had lifetime job placement and finding a job in the field was going to be easy if I applied myself and I did.

After I finished the school, I was sent to an externship and I also completed that. I went on so many job interviews and wasn't hired for any of the jobs because they said I didn't have enough work experience in that field. I got discouraged, after awhile. Soon after Bryman shut down the program, they no longer offer this program. I am still paying off my loan, for a program I took that was suppose to have a lifetime job placement.

I graduated from Bryman (Everest College) in 1997. I tried for months to get a job in the field that I took, and had no luck. I am still paying a loan back. I just feel that it is wrong how the corithian schools FALSE advertise

Everest Formally Known as NIT has messed up my life. I attended the dearborn campus for computers, first the teacher Mr. g. told us we could not get certified for hardware and software at staples no more and nobodys even doing those tests any more,hello... whats the point of class. so like a dummy I kept going even though our teacher was literally a ex-drunk physco, we complained almost everyday to the dean or whoever she was, she did absolutely nothing. Even the main secretary was VERY rude they give you shirts to wear and she didnt let me get the size I need which was a xxl because the lil man before me got one and she felt that other people may need them so I received a smaller shirt that of course I didnt wear.

But the worst thing about the whole thing was they had absolutely no computer parts, how can a person learn about computers with no hands on. Example: SCSI Cables adi adapter, what is this 3 years later i find there just wires that connect different hardware why not show us, they set you up for failure. I eventually had to switch to night classes to catch up. nobody in the morning class or night class graduated. I owe $1o,000 dollars plus because of the night class I cant get any more loans for another school and the credits that they give you or worthless at a real college. then our teacher Mr G. tells us that if you finish hardware software and networking which was another class he would promise us a job.

Other then that the school has 1 computer with internet to look yourself for a job. They took advantage of me at a young age and if your thinking of going dont do it. Your better off at community college. The only job you may get is at the cable company and if you ask them were they went to school theyll tell you nowhere. Now I owe $10,000 plus, cannot get another loan, credits are no good toward real college, and in 4 years still have not got a job in the field.

I saw the add on tv about Everest College so back in October 2008 I decided to go and talk to a rep for more information. I eventually ended up taking the Cpat/ACT test to be eligable to attend. I passed the test highest score in the class..but when i went to Oreintation in late October of 2008 Greg Sheppard,Director Of Admissions called me into his office and told me they gave me the test too soon(I took the test twice before passing it the third time!)and i wiuld have to take it again due to their screw up. I asked many reps and even Greg about the time frame no one knew or wanted to tell me anything. I took the test again on 10/28/08 at 4:45 pm and passed, once again highest score in class.

I was super excited to attend on 11/24/08. My teacher was nice and great person. I attended school for about 3 weeks when i got a call from my rep saying that they gave me the wrong test and too soon (once again) and i would have to come in and retake a test again.....for the 5th time. It was a complete let down and it really hurt me.

He went on to explain he would give me gas cards for the trouble i went thru coming back and fourth to take the test over and over due to their screw ups. I asked once again what is the time frame and once again they all got amnesia and couldnt tell me or kept sending me to more people who didnt know! I was at my wits end with this..

This is suspose to be an accredited college and not to mention that you really dont learn its so fast paced and you just given an assignment and dont hear about it or anything until its due. comeon now... your learning to be in a medical feild dealing with people lives and you dont get the proper training or anything, how can that be not to mention they still didnt tell me how i would obtain my GED. Proffessional huh.... not even close!!! They are (the reps and SOME teachers) are not properly educated on the information or they responsibilities. Its really hard to get in contact with the president its like playing cat and mouse!! The only person that even tried was the Director of Finance (initials-J.G.). He was sorry about it and kept apologizing but i know that it wasnt his fault, it was whoever didnt know the proper information and kept giving me the run around.

One rep even stated on the phone to me We are giving you a Gas card..we really dont have to give you anything. which was not right to say because first off im not a charity case and you cant buy me with a measly gas card and secondly its not my fault they are not properly informed and neither is their head people in charge so why do i keep having to pay for their screw ups.

I was fed up so on 12/15/08 i decided to talk to all responsible parties on reversing all my loans and turning in all supplies. I got an email from Greg Sheppard saying i will have to pay for gas cards given to me and scubs. I told him that i will not pay gas cards given to me because they stated it was for their mistakes and the stress they caused me....wow 30.00 and i work almost an hour away and i took the test 5 times so imagine that 30.00 is not even close for the trouble they caused!

I told him i will pay for 10.00 scubs and thats it. Greg later emailed me back calling me a quitter and it was a email just insulting me which i kept for my records all the emails sent and received!

I started out 2008 with such big goals ahead of me. i was sitting on the couch thinking about what to do with life when a commercial came on. the commercial was tacky and my 9 year old sister with a video camera could have done better what a sign.

i thought Everest Institute was it for me and at first i was so excited i even convinced a friend to go with me i got a $100 refer a friend program. i am not sure if i'm a good friend after i convinced her to go their. well to start they had me sold with the lifetime job placement program my teacher was even a teacher there due to that fact more about that later.

i decided to join the school for the medical insurance billing and coding program (bull). well i tried my hardest perfect 4.0 all through the program, student ambassador (student council) also at times it did not even feel good with all my achievements i was making everyone had a 3.0 or higher the teacher passed you as long as you came to class.

but i could only teach so much my teacher did not even have a teachers license she was a beautiful lady but with no clue how to code if anybody knows coding it could be tricky the class had to rely on each other and the teacher would just give us her book. it helped working back from the answer but really 13,000 on tuition and i am teaching myself.

another example of teaching myself would have been our computer class we were working on a program claim gear ( which is not even used that frequently) full of mistakes this program was and only one teacher in the building knew how to use claim gear (her idea was i will just give you credit for it). well she was not our teacher so there we were bouncing ideas off each other again trying to figure something out nice problem solving teaching but i paid money to be taught stuff. well another thing about computer class we also did a program medisoft that is not even used in the state of mn only in very small practices. ...

now on to the lifetime career placement this entails being sent an email with job postings from career builder, monster, job listing sites places i have my resume all over places i have already applied for i thought they would help place me in the field not leave me out here on my own with a link to job sites via email. the most unorganized place i have ever been a part of. i have yet to receive my diploma in the mail it has been 2 months. outdated material uneducated staff a big waste of money.

this situation has impacted me in a few different ways for one loans that have to be paid off (debt).

emotionally stressed bills no job no help with looking for a job and used for my money to help out a diploma mill.

I started going to Bryman College back in January 2006. I just got laid off from my job after working there for 17 and a half years. I didn't know where to go for a job so I decided to get a carrier at Bryman for dental assistant. after being in school for 3 months me and other students realized that our instructor had an alcohol problem. a lot of times she wasn't interested in teaching the class. so, after the 4th month one day my instructor was absent so we had a substitute and I mentioned to her that our instructor didn't know the answer to a lot of our questions and wastes too much time text messaging and getting personal with a lot of the students with her personal business. so we did not want her as our instructor. so she recommended that I should write a letter with a complaint and drop it off at the front counter which I did. but no results came out of it.

after the fifth month we complaint to my instructor supervisor and told her that we were not happy with our instructor and that the school needed to do something about it quickly since we only had a few months left. and one student complaint to our instructor supervisor and told her specifically that our instructor had an alcohol problem and talks too much about her sexual life with other students. nothing was done. in September I wrote a letter to the president of Bryman via email (which I can provide) and explained to him how unhappy we were with our : "education" an how unprepared I was and no confident about the whole "training". a month later after I wrote that letter my instructor was fired. the school realized they made a mistake. I also wrote a letter to consummer affair, but nothing happened either.(which I also can provide as well).

and ask them to take care of the student loan since I got poor training and felt totally incompetent in the field of dental assistant. the answer was: sorry, we can't do that but we can re-train you if you want. so I explained to them that I went to college because I was getting unemployment but already run out of it and also I had to apply for public assistance so I can support both of my children. I was at the point where I had to work two jobs. so, I couldn't afford to go back. they were very cold about the whole situaion. I asked them: "why would you let people in that don't know how to read and write? how can anyone like that can possibly assist the doctor? the answer was: "we are not aware of that". then I realized that I was on my own. til this day they haven't given me a diploma yet. but they said that I graduated.

The school is misleading and is all for the money. It is almost like the school is fake! Some of the campuses lose their accreditation and the students are not even notified. At the beginning, all of the faculty seems like they are there to help, but what I did not realize, is that they are there for the money. They push the students to go to join their school, and yet, the benefit is NOTHING except for stress.

After finishing school, the loans started coming in. Yet with no high-paying job as promised, I struggle with paying the loans. Personally I feel damaged inside. It does not make sense to me how these loans come out to $14,000.00 and I get nothing in return. I feel stressed, I look stressed, and I just don't agree with this system at all! This school needs to get shut down and needs to pay everyone back!

Enrolled in Surgical Technology program at Everest College, have paid $24,000+ lodging and transportation and cannot graduate because the school can not provide a final clinical so I can graduate and seek employment. I was to graduate in Nov 2007 however, I still have not completed my final clinical, they do not return my calls or provide a status report.

My loans are now due and I have to make payments, but cannot take the surgical tech exam or get a job as a surgical tech due to the lack of the school fulfilling its obligation. They have not offered any explanation or financial restitution. At this point I may be losing my skills as I completed my last clinical in December 2007.

I have requested a meeting with the college President without any schedule or comment on when my clinical can be arranged or accommodations by the college. I am willing to travel and have been very flexible.

I am $12,000 in debt, and I believe that this institution preys on the naive into paying twice as much as other schools, on programs that employers say are not necessary schooling for the job.

Student loan debt; unemployment.

I signed up for a course in business office management at Everest college in May of 2007. Before signing up I asked the recruiter (Shanel)If the teacher was an accredited teacher. She said yes she was and was a great teacher at that. The first day I had my doubts but, I hung in there. By the second month it was a circus and I found out that she was not an accredited teacher she had never even worked in an office before. She was a massage therapist.

I was beside myself and didn't know what to do. I went to the D.O.E. (Kimberly Johnson) with my concerns twice she said that she would take care of it. After 4-months nothing was done. I wasn't getting anything out of this class. The so called teacher (Jennifer Pavlin-Wruck)Did not know what she was doing. There were some things going on in that class that were unreal. I do not think I should have to pay for something that I didn't receive.

Now I owe this money and the school is threatening to turn me into a collection agency.

I have had numerous complaints in regards to the finance department. Student records have been lost, due to the turnover in staff. I honestly feel the students are being taken advantage of financially, and many don't know. I over looked my transcripts and notice that I had been given a class that i did not need, and i wasn't informed about it, but yet a loan was processed to assist me. Even though through many ordeals the money was returned to the lender, i feel that the school was not held liable for this over charge that had taken place.

Many of our (students) loan information is processed without our consent, as well as our degrees not marked with the Calif. seal. There have been many complaints about this institution and nothing has been done.

As a result my lender tells me that I owe $19,000 in student loans, but the program is only a couple of months. I also receive gov't assistance, financial aid, and pell grants to cover majority of the cost of my education, but now I'm in debt.