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Harleysville,#2General Comment
Tue, January 24, 2012
Hello,
I read this horror story and feel bad for you. I just wanted to share my experience with the Cittone Institute and also let you know how the education I acquired at the Cittone Institute changed my life for the better.
The year was 2002. I, like many others was recently laid off from a job I thought I would have for life. 3 months passed and I was collecting unemployment and feeling lost and concerned for my future. I was always into computers and always wanted to know more about computers, networks and the internet. At this time the old "click on cittone.com" commercials were all over the radio. Finally I decided to sign up and use my time off constructively. I also took the test, had great results and worked with Jodi to get set up for my future.
A month later I started on a journey which would change my life and career path forever. I found my fellow classmates as eager to learn as I was, although not all of us made it. Throughout the 8 months I was attending we lost 3 of the original 16 in my class. I took my 1st test and passed and got my MCP! It was a great feeling of accomplishment and the 1st step towards being a legit network tech! I continued to attend and take tests, preparing extensively for each test. I focused all of my attention on breaking into this new field, the field of technology. The teachers were great and really strived to impart their real world experience to us. Some of the material was very foreign and complex, but I always worked extra hard and always figured out what was going on.
Finally, half way through the 8 months, I scored a crucial paid internship with Plymouth Township as an assistant Network Administrator. Bob, the career counselor really came through and helped me with this. Not only was I maintaining the office and public computer networks at the Greater Plymouth Community Center, but I was also working on the network in the Municiple Building, fixing police car laptops, working on the Microsoft Exchange server, facilitating data backups and retrieval, and even giving courses to members of the community center on internet basics, and office applications for extra money in the evenings.
I graduated and 1 week after graduation I scored a job with a software company in Jenkintown. I was making real money in the industry that I was proud to work in. From there I've had various positions in technology and today I am still in technology and making great money at a really cool vibrant company that I am proud to be a part of. Now I can't credit the Cittone institute with all of this success. A lot of it had to do with my determination, positive personality and tenacious 'go get em' attitude. However without the Cittone Institute to serve as a platform, I can't say I would be where I am today!
Thanks for reading!
Kevin
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Monroe,#3Consumer Comment
Mon, December 05, 2011
They tell everyone who takes their test that they scored unusually high. Everybody in my class was told the same thing. I passed all the classes - probably the third highest in the class. Their job placement service was a joke. No-one wants to hire anyone from that school. Don't go to this school!!!
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United States of America#4Consumer Comment
Fri, November 04, 2011
I'm sorry, but you could not have gotten exceptionally high scores on an aptitude test if you failed to realize that if you did not pass a required class that 1) you would have to retake it 2) you would have to pay to retake it and 3) that Sallie Mae was the government issued student loan company... it is not a made up loan sharking company that you have portrayed.
You walked out after finding out you could not afford to retake the classes in order to graduate. That is your problem not the schools. You failed to make tuition payments after this, again your problem not theirs.
Believe it or not, there are people who can pass these class and succeed. Lincoln Tech does actually offer decent programs for their students. It is more independent learning though. So if your teacher only "taught 20 pages" then you should have read the other 280 in order to better understand the material required to pass the class.
Oh, and I do not work for LTI. I am currently a student on my externship which they had no problem providing me with as I passed each class with an A and payed my tuition bill each month.