martiangirly24_7
Honolulu,#2Consumer Comment
Fri, July 08, 2011
I attended this school as well during this time of year, but began back in August of 2004 and graduated in March 2005 after my crappy internship. The school year went great for most of my class, although there were a few of us that had weird vibes about a couple of the instructors we had...we thought that maybe they didn't know or have as much experience as we were actually told.
Then out of the blue, a little over a month left of the medical assisting course we were told that the school wasn't accredited. We were all shocked, and a lot of us basically started giving up on hope that all of us would end up with jobs after all this. And another thing is that a lot of these 8-18 month programs, you can't transfer the class as an equivalent to match another schools course. I would basically say spend the little more cash and go to a well known community college or university. You will have better chances at continuing your education by transferring credits or getting recognized at outside companies for employment.
I don't know if any of my instructors were as bad as yours stating bad stuff in my classmates files...let alone my own, but that could be a reason why I was let go from my first internship at a hospital in Tacoma, WA near 19th and Sprague Ave. Then I got sent to basically a nursing home facility in Puyallup, WA where the closest thing I got to practice was finger poking for blood sugar testing and taking blood pressures.
Of course after I was finished I couldn't find a set long term job as a medical assistant (MA). I ended up starting at the bottom of the totem poll as a Nursing Assistant (CNA) basically throwing $12,000 down the drain...to which this day I am still paying off. Luckily I did find a good job for a while that was a clinical job assisting at a GI clinic in Olympia, WA. Eventually, I was let go and replaced by an LPN because I didn't have enough experience...what was I trained for at Bryman with drawing blood and all and yet I can't set an IV drip even though I was trained to pretty much do that.
It bites because I still have all of the MOD books and flashcards for vocabulary, the only stuff I really can't remember is that ICD-9 coding stuff.
Anyways, I now live in Hawaii due to being an army spouse and yet I see commercials for Everest College...hahaha. Corinthian Colleges is just changing the name of their affiliate schools to cover their own butts. This is so they can continue to rip off desperate young students looking for a quick and fast way to get a career instead of paying 4-6 times the amount at a 4 year university.
The reason I know all this is because I went through it. I've been in other peoples shoes who have hoped that they can further their career and make their life better after being a single parent.
I repeat, don't deal with any schools that are owned by Corinthian Colleges. They will rip you off and lie to you just to get you in their system.
And yes there was a class action lawsuit, but they, Corinthian Colleges only payed off a partial amount of students loans.