Carrington College

This review is based from my experience with viewing the campus & speaking to a few staff members in the main office.
I came here with my sister to take a look at the Pleasant Hill campus since it was the only Carrington College campus in Northern California to offer Respiratory Care. There was an online form that we could fill out regarding what program interested us and a time slot we would be able to come for a tour. We chose to come out at 5:45PM and after filling a few forms, we met with Jennifer who was the Director of Enrollment Services.
The first thing that caught me off guard was that reserving that time slot prior really didn’t mean anything because there wasn’t a follow up to that request or a concern about not coming earlier in the day to participate in an informations session regarding the Respiratory Care program. My sister and I basically missed out on seeing the teaching facility, meeting the director of respiratory care and going over details of the program. We were already there so we tried to absorb as much information as we could possibly get. Jennifer was very thorough with what information she knew about the program & suggested we come back next week to have the program director go over in detail of any questions we had.
We met with Marlene who is their Student Finance Advisor & she broke down the cost & different ways to cover the tuition (financial aid/​loans) and how to sign up for FASFA correctly. She was very sweet in making sure we understood everything that was presented to us and answered everything as best as she could without specific personal information/​details.
The staff members I encountered with were helpful the best they could in their position and in no way did they make me feel pressured into going there. I personally don’t feel completely comfortable putting my future education & finances on the line if theres a 51.9% graduating rate on time in 2014 and out of that small percentage, only about ¹⁄₃ were employed in the field according to their fact sheet.
We decided to pass on going to Carrington College and go through the community college system for Respiratory Care or completely choose another major to finish at a CSU. Even though there are cons of taking the longer route; for the tuition amount of $ 53k… the number of students that began the program versus the number of graduates & employed graduates was quite disappointing.
If anyone decides to go to school there, I would strongly advise take the time to speak to the directors of the school/​program, look at the facility and do some research beforehand to prepare yourself with some questions you want answered. Good luck!

If you are a veteran and want to use you ch. 33 for the pharmacy tech program, i suggest you find a different school to go to. They changed their program to just the certificate program and the VA does not recognize it. Also its been since last yr of October since they have updated their catalog. I’ve been back and fourth between the VA and the college about being funded and still no luck. They also only go up to an associates degree.

came here a year ago, finding out i needed to pay my school loan off, if wanted take another lone, ok. called yesterday just to be told, lvn is on freeze, i called 3diff people gave me diff answers, wanted know why, the lady at that campus, snooty lack of compassion, she says its becuase were revamping the school, scared me for just a minute what are you saying nurseing is no longer needed, No its a Corp, you just never know anything can happen, she talked with such pride, Oh of course i said just like a natural disaster, it can happen anytime, Wish some one would of told me before, i had my hopes in this school. But than again one door closes another will open, God has a better place for me.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE BE SMART ABOUT COMING HERE. If you’re going to loan out money please make sure you will make more than $ 15/​hr! The RT program is 53k and you have teachers who can’t even help you and who rely too much on powerpoint. Waste of money. It may take a long time at a community college but its better than paying off loans until you die.

The new remodel is great. The multiple classes at different times to fit all types of students schedules is a blessing. The labs are better equipped than any other school in the area.

I went to WCC for RT. There are something that are frustrating but let me tell you, I went to Ohlone first and they laughed in my face. I took my money out and put it in WCC, they took me right away, the testing happened as fast as I was able to, the program wasnt even put together yet and we started school. I was entering into my second career and didnt have time to spend in a community college and then RT school so this was better for me being an accelerated program. I toughed it out and graduated as the first class of Respiratoy Care. I LOVE MY JOB and I wouldnt have been able to do it without this school. Education is not what it used to be, you have to work your way around the system but most important, you must be able to roll with the punches. Good luck.

This review is specifically for the enrollment process of Carrington College. I went in a while back interested in the vocational nursing program. Everything felt extremely rushed from setting up an appointment to taking my HESI, my wonderlic and making sure that I get all the necessary documents submitted. I wanted to do the LVN and bridge to RN. My enrollment advisor, although very nice, failed to let me know that the LVN, the bridge, and the RN were ALL were not included in the payment that I was told and you have to pay for each of them separately. The total cost of all 3: ~ $ 100,000.00! She also failed to tell me that after all that, I’d only be getting an Associates degree (I was under the impression that I’d be getting a B.S.). I’m sorry, but if I’m going to pay $ 100,000, I’m going to be getting a Bachelors degree and at a university. I wish they had told me this up front, so I didn’t waste my time doing everything else. I ended up getting admitted into the program, but even if I didn’t decide to go to a UC, I wouldn’t want to go here based on how the enrollment process went. It was just so hurried, pushy, and lacked what I felt was important information. It was almost as if they wanted to rush you through certain things before they would give you additional information. I’m sorry, but that is a very questionable method of running a business to me. I definitely got the impression that this school was more interested in getting your money than anything else.

Save your money and time. Don’t go here! I took the Medical Assistant program and wish that I didn’t. (One of my biggest mistake and I’m still paying thousands of dollars for it). I’m not one to quit so I finished the program even though it really didn’t feel right from the first semester. This school just want your money and not what’s best for you. Btw… I’m a state certified medical assistant but its definitely not worth thousand of dollars.

This review is for the PTA program at the Pleasant Hill campus. I was concerned about enrolling at a for-​profit school, but two things made me decide to take the chance: Mr. T, the developer and then-​Director of the PTA program inspired a lot of confidence, and the program led to a national board licensing exam, so you know if you pass the exam, you are meeting a set of nationally-​recognized standards for the profession.
On to the program itself: the PTA program is still very new. My class was only the second to graduate (June 2013). So, as you would expect from a new program, there were some kinks that needed ironing out. However, the faculty are amazingly talented in the profession, are dedicated to building a great program, and truly care about the students. The faculty is proactive in seeking student input to improve the program and when problems did arise, they listened and were responsive.
The quality of the classes themselves varied, with some being excellent, some more in the middle, and one or two not very good. Again, though, the faculty sought and listened to student input and made positive changes to improve the classes. The lab classes (with the exception of anatomy and physiology) were in general quite good, although I wished we had more time to focus on each skill before moving on. All students must pass skills competencies tests for each core class, and I will admit to sometimes feeling more like I was going through the motions than being truly «competent» at certain skills. But the faculty shine in their clinical expertise, and the students benefit from their wealth of skills and experience. It was very helpful when students would take a video of the lab instruction sessions and post them online so that you could review them later.
The program is not perfect. Some classes could have benefited from more discussion and clinical scenarios and less reliance on power-​point presentations, and there were persistent issues with exams not coinciding well with lecture material. Because each class is only 8 weeks long, I often felt like I was constantly cramming and not retaining as much as I would have liked. On a school-​wide level, it is unfortunate that so much of the limited time in the program that would be better spent on core material must be taken up with general education requirements, but that is not the fault of the PTA program.
Nor is the program easy. There are a lot of reading and homework assignments, frequent quizzes and exams, and papers and projects for each class, plus practicing for the lab skills. Nonetheless, our cohort was hard-​working, cohesive and supportive of each other, and nearly all made it to graduation.
Ultimately, the quality of the program is best judged by how well it prepares you to succeed in the profession. How does Carrington stack up? Maybe a quarter to a third of my classmates were offered jobs immediately at one of their clinical internship sites. I was not hired on at one of my sites, but Ms. B in career services was a great help to me in preparing my resume and interview skills, and I was fortunate enough to find a job as a PTA within a couple of weeks after graduating. We recently had our board exams; I was able to pass, and from what I have heard second-​hand, although not all of my classmates opted to take the board exams immediately, of those who did, many have passed. I don’t know how many are working in the field as of yet.
I often see reviews that say, «if you are willing to work hard, you will get a job and succeed!» I am going to say that it is more complicated than that. You may well graduate, but that does not guarantee a job in the field. Do your research! Make sure the field is not impacted! Call the HR departments or hiring managers in the area and ask if they hire or would hire from Carrington. It seems to be a common misperception that Carrington will provide job placement for you when you graduate. That would be nice, but that’s not the deal. They provide support services, such as resume and interview preparation, but they do not search for interviews or openings — you must do that for yourself!
As for the other aspects of Carrington in general, to be honest I had as little to do with them as possible. I will say that my experience with the admissions department was similar to an earlier poster’s: very friendly and helpful initially, but cagey answers to direct questions about the success of graduates. I was not impressed with financial services and would tend to give at least some credence to some of the reviews here about bad experiences with financial aid and/​or admissions. On a good note, Mr T, our old PTA director, is now the Dean of Academic Affairs, and he rocks, so I would be surprised if he doesn’t help bring the quality of the whole school up a notch. Dean T!

my teachers were great, classmates were koo even online and graduation was nice. but would have been nicer to have more of an opportunity to have job placement…

This is a review for the enrollment services, not the actual classes. I withdrew my application about 90% through the process due to utter frustration.
Worst application process ever! My main issue is that Carrington does not value applicants’ time at all. Carrington requires prospective students to visit like 7 times. First for a tour, then an info session, then to meet an enrollment rep, then to take an aptitude test, then a formal interview with the rep, then to meet with financial aid, then to finally enroll. It was ridiculous! And each progressive appointment was more angering and frustrating than the last. I was also handed off to 3 different reps in 4 months, and none of them had correct information. First I was told that the program was already full, then accepting applications, then I find out instead of selecting the most qualified candidates, students are selected on a first-​come-​first-​serve basis. Yet the reps were only allowed to schedule 3 appointments per week.
The formal interview was so stupid! Carrington had so many applicants that they scheduled 5 people at a time. But all the rep did was read off a questionnaire and ask each applicant the same question going around the group. I also heard that one rep told applicants when they had the wrong answer. «Why should Carrington accept you… No, we were looking for the phrase ‘hard working’.» There was NO reason to make that a group thing. Either schedule short meetings with each person, or better yet, have the applicant fill out the questionnaire on their own.
I attended all the appointments and was in the home stretch for enrollment, only to find out that I missed a few steps that no one told me about and I would have had to reschedule for 3 months later. At that point I completely flipped out.
The enrollment reps are unreliable and schmoozy. The front desk is cheery to your face, but catty and passive-​aggressive underneath. And to top it all off, the program costs $ 45,000. WTH You’d think Carrington would have their act together if each student paid that much.
Carrington, if you ever read this, you badly need to the change the application process! Do what EVERY other college does: have an application and checklist online, require it turned in by a certain date, then select the most qualified candidates from the pile of applications. Then ask them in for a formal interview and financial aid meeting. The whole hand-​holdy enrollment process is a mess!

so since 2009 i havent heard from wcc aka carrington till today… they sent me a bill for $ 5000…you’ve got to be kidding me!!! i wasn’t even there for 3 months. I have emails stating that because of what happened it was going to be taken care of… now i got shit to take care of cause of them! all supplies still in packaging was returned… i paid out of pock for my classes so how are you now charging me? ugh more probs with wcc!!!

This school is down right AWFUL!!!
FIRST off, I feel like that comment from the person from the bronx is BS! It more than likely was someone in the school… It sure sounds like a load I would have been given while going into there! Weather or not it was I honestly cannot prove it either way so I will leave it at that… Just seems really fishy to me!
SECOND This school promises to help you in your career and all that jazz… Promising you that you will be able to go with an externship after you complete the program and will get a job depending on how great you do. That is the biggest load of crap I have ever fell for! Not only did I find my own externship, but ALL students in my class… (That would be around 36 – 38 that I was with the whole time) are JOBLESS! There are two whopping students with jobs ONE hired from her externship and ONE with a totally different job! My student loans are just raking up the intrest and rate hikes and this place could give two cares less!
I am so thankful that I was able to take a part in the «career service» lady before the one now being canned! She was worthless and plain rude!!! Topping that off I couldn’t figure out why no jobs AT ALL would call me back… After taking my resume that THIS SCHOOL made for me and promised it was what people wanted to see to my sister she explained to me that it was no wonder nobody would call back! My resume was laughable… I looked closer noticing that it wasn’t even all lined up right… The bullets were all different, the font was off, and the wording SUCKED!
The teachers in the medical assistant program… Well hmm… Miss R is awesome… I will say that! She has a ton of experience and actually left a job to teach… She knows her stuff… That all doesn’t make a world of a difference if the place you want to work hates your school though!
Kaiser HATES this school and does not like to hire through them! They were not doing externships last I knew with this school and for apparent reasons.
Really is a shame that the talk is so amazing here and the walk sucks! If people were honestly interested in educating people in this horrible economy they would tell them to CALL THE PLACE YOU WANT TO WORK AND ASK WHO THEY HIRE OUT OF BEFORE SIGNING UP FOR THIS SCHOOL Kaiser hires out mainly from Boston! Anything is a step up from this place! Don’t waste your time and throw away your money!

I don’t know anything but my own experience:
CC is a for profit school, duh, they make no bones about it… why should they? Pay the extra money and you get in. You’re telling me CSU and UC don’t make a profit or something?
If you go for a degree that doesn’t guarantee you a job upon graduation then hell yes that’s risky business but YOU have to decide.
I know my chosen field will secure me a job so I’m willing to throw down almost 50k for the pure fact that I don’t have to apply and «hope» to get in once a year.
Lisa in admissions has been great to work with. There’s another woman, a higher up whose name I forget who is WAY too sales pitchy and gets in peoples business and I don’t care for her, but I know what I want so I won’t let her gimmicks deter me.

@ Leslie «you will only get out of it what you put in to it. If you are not willing to work and study hard, then maybe it’s not the right school for you; anyone that is dedicated to learning and willing to put in the work will have nothing bad to say…»
Don’t speak for every hard working, dedicated student, especially not me. That last bit especially made me really laugh out loud.
Maybe over in Vet Tech world, it’s wonderful for every hard working student that leaves there, but my experience with Medical Assisting, as well as several of my fellow classmates, is a different story! I was a mentor, straight A student, great attendance, ALWAYS on the Dean and President’s list, completed my extern from a major hospital in one of the toughest units with a stellar review, completely flawless and with a letter of recommendation… but wait! They weren’t hiring! They SOLELY work with externs, & the school knew this before placing me, but lead me on to believe they were hiring.
Where is career services after you graduate? They dodged my phone calls, & when they did finally get in touch, gave me the run around claiming they had job opportunities lined up for me, expect a phone call from so and so, only to never hear from any businesses. It’s a wild web of B.S. Let me tell you, most businesses require 2 years experience, and where shall you get that experience?
Pray you’re one of the chosen ones for a hiring extern site, because it’s all LUCK OF THE DRAW. Don’t believe me? I’ll refer you to SEVERAL other incredibly hard working intelligent students that graduated at the top, who don’t have an M.A. job. We finished school a year ago, by the way. Their sites weren’t hiring, while a lot of bummy students were given sites that were & opportunities better deserved by people who really gave their all. I’ve seen students that barely passed & had their Getting the Job Done book completed later than others, get set up with a hiring extern site first. I didn’t want anyone to hold my hand, just deliver what they promise. If they were honest from the get-​go, I would have no reason to complain, and thus, would not be.
Bottom line? This school is a BUSINESS. They are there to get you in, get you out & kick you to the curb when a new flock of students are about to graduate. Next time I’ll put the 14,000 towards a REAL college. Just remember, LUCK OF THE DRAW.
* Updated*
If you’re reading a review on here, make sure it’s written by a graduate, not a student that was simply enrolled when they reviewed. If I’d written about Carrington during attendance, it would’ve been an optimistic & hopeful review about how I KNOW this will secure a job for me in a certain field… so what do I care about the cost or how they run the school? My review would’ve echoed both the sentiments of Leslie S. (the original person I quoted, who’s review is filtered now for some reason) & Leslie C. who posted in March 2012. How could you not be on cloud nine when you worked as hard as I did? Surely I «knew» that I’d be going places with a 4.0 & a perfect review of my externship at a major hospital! Of course schooling costs money but other schools (not career colleges) don’t lie about the success you will have after. DVC never said they would help me land a job, or place me at an extern site that they say is hiring and come to find out they are not, meanwhile a mediocre student gets an extern site that’s hiring just because it’s luck of the draw.
DVC, CSU & UC don’t promise to follow up with you for a full year after graduation, assisting you with job hunting because they have «connections», only to drop you a month after you graduate. People pay to go to Career Colleges because they’re led to believe it’s a faster route to a career field with extra assistance in job hunting, that you do not get at other colleges. I think the post-​grad reviews are what truly counts! To those who did get jobs as a result of this business, congratulations! But the sheer volume of those who aren’t working jobs related to the field they went to Carrington for, those numbers are sad & it isn’t always for lack of trying on the student’s end. Best wishes to currently enrolled students who KNOW that these programs will secure them a job in their field. I hope you can find a job on your own that doesn’t have the standard «two years experience» rule that these fields have in the real World. That is the only way it would be worth every penny.
To the student who stated that once you graduate you will get an extern site, for one– you don’t graduate until after your externship is complete, not before. It’s the final requirement. Secondly, though they SAY they’ll get your extern for you, I know many students that were forced to find their own sites! That pushed their finishing dates back and caused A LOT of added stress for them. One student was done with courses for 2 MONTHS until she could get an extern site– she couldn’t keep her skills up in between! Bravo.

RUN. RUN. RUN.
Waste of money. They sugarcoat everything. Suck you and and leave you hanging!
Go through community college, might take longer but cheaper!

I graduated the Pharmacy Tech program and I found a great job that pays well.
Every program at this college is different. There are different teachers for each program so this is a review of the Pharmacy Tech Program. The teachers for Pharmacy are very good at preparing students for the Pharmacy Technician Certification Exam.
The Pharmacy Tech program is ASHP accredited (American Society of Health-​System Pharmacists). Some companies will only hire people who graduate from an ASHP approved Pharmacy Tech program. Carrington is one of the only colleges in the area to have an ASHP approved program. There are strict standards that need to be followed to get this approval. That means that the program is very comprehensive.
To be honest, the Pharmacy Program can be challenging. There is a lot of studying, homework, and tests. There have been students that didn’t study or do their homework and ended up dropping out. They were the ones who didn’t bother to study. You need to study and read the books. The teachers can’t hold your hand and force you to study at home. This isn’t high school. However, this program is manageable. If you study and do your homework you can and will succeed.
I have attended UC Davis, and the teachers at Carrington College are much friendlier. You have smaller classes at Carrington and the teachers know your name.
Carrington may seem pricey, but the quality of education that I got in the Pharmacy Program was just as good as what I got at UC Davis. There are many types of financial aid unless you have already spent your financial aid at another college. Loans are available. You have to pick a lender. I actually like the environment better at Carrington. At UC Davis, I felt lost in a crowd and you never got to know your teachers over there.
I always felt welcome to drop in and talk to my Pharmacy teachers. I never had a problem with my admissions counselor or with any of the financial aid staff. Update: Spring 2011: The school hired a new Career Services Director and new Career Services staff.
Yes, I too had to sit through a financial aid session even though I was paying for my education without financial aid. If you don’t want financial aid, you don’t have to get it. Colleges like UC Davis aren’t free either. UC Davis also pushes you to get student loans so that UC Davis can make money too.
Each campus of Carrington College is run quite independently. Each one has different teachers that prepare you differently. I can’t speak for the quality of teachers at any other campus. However, the Pleasant Hill campus has teachers that are really helpful and they do a great job at teaching. For example, if there is a scandal at UCLA does that mean that UC Berkeley is to blame? No. These are completely separate colleges with different teachers. At the other college in Citrus Heights, Ultrasound teachers passed students who never studied the material well enough to apply it. That was a mistake by the teachers at that college. That college has taken action to stop such a lack of standards. They have learned from their mistakes and are cracking down. If you don’t study, you will be failed. Everything has changed and the standards now very clear and strict. That was the Ultrasound program. We don’t have that program in Pleasant Hill. Our pharmacy program is accredited unlike Ultrasound at that other college.
The Pharmacy Tech teachers know how to teach. We have class 4 days a week in the Pharmacy Tech Program. We have extensive in-​class training with labs.
Once you graduate you will get an externship provided by the college at a pharmacy. It is good experience and a good reference. Yes, students from our Pharmacy program have been hired by hospitals such as Kaiser. The reason that the admissions people don’t mention anything specific is because they don’t want to give you expectations that might not apply to everyone. In order to get into those jobs you need to really study well and remember the course material.
We are all in a difficult job market right now. Not everyone is going be good at job interviews. Are you always on time? Would an employer want to hire you? If you study well, create a great resume, pass that exam, you will be on your way to get a great job.
Our campus has a very high pass rate on the Pharmacy Tech Certification Exam. That shows that our students are some of the best prepared in the country. Our scores on the exam are much higher than the national average.
After you pass the exam, you will be a nationally certified pharmacy technician and you will be way ahead of any other job applicant who doesn’t have the certification. Certified technicians earn more than non-​certified techs.
Life is a journey. No one is going to walk up and hand you a job, but passing the certification exam will put you way ahead of other people. Once you finish the program you qualify for the California Pharmacy Tech license.

Was told over the phone AND in an email that they offer «in house» financing… I don’t qualify for private loans and my federal loans were about spent up on a liberal arts education… Go and physically meet with them… Take the time out to do that… Then am told by financial aid that they don’t offer anything like that whatsoever. Remember, I have the email from an admissions rep saying «sure that’s something we can work out»…
These are very much so FOR PROFIT schools. Talk to graduates (people who made it the whole way through) before signing anything with these type of institutions. Even if you max out a pell grant and stafford loans on an institution this expensive you’ll still come out paying out of pocket…
The weirdest thing I find about their Unilocal profile is that instead of replying to comments (which business owners of the profile can do), the executive director is using the comment to make a review with «5 stars» to bring the rating up…
Do your research people!

I went to WCC in Pleasant Hill and it sickens me how this school is still standing. The students were horrible and in cliques, just like HS. I had a horrible problem in my Massage Therapy course and the Dean and my Instructors refused to do something about it and they wouldn’t allow me to quit this school, without paying the same amount as I would have if I continued (which I did). The remainder (about 6 months) of my schooling here were HORRIBLE. The students bullied me, the teachers made life hard on me.
The teachers read straight out of the books and couldn’t answer questions I had about anything. This school is not respected enough for me to get a good job. They lied about how much money I could be making. The teachers told me halfway through schooling that I would have to get a 2^nd or 3^rd job, because Massage Therapy wasn’t going to be enough to survive on. They were right! They lied about job placement. They are not flexible with scheduling at all! I forgot everything I learned and we skipped a lot of material. I HIGHLY ADVISE AGAINST anyone going to WCC (Carrington College) as it IS NOT LEGIT!!!

definitely «eek! methinks not» status for this place.
my first encounter with this school was when i called and spoke with stefanie, wanting some more information about the respiratory therapy program. she gave me verrrry wishy-​washy answers. i asked approximately how many students apply to the program, and she flat out told me that that’s not something they keep track of… yeah freakin’ RIGHT! i also asked her what admission was based on, and she told me that it was based on motivation of the students. umm… really? everyone who’s interested in the program and who is trying to find out more about it is clearly motivated. nobody is going to fork out $ 50k for something they have no motivation in. underneath her lies, i could tell that admission was based on how much you «meshed» with the admission staff there, and basically how much they liked you. verrrry sketchy if you ask me.
at that point, i was just wanting to get some more details on the program, so i set up an appointment to meet with her in person. stefanie was very nice when we met, so no points against her… she’s just doing her job and all. the interview went well and was very organized, so i made an appointment to come back for testing, etc.
the night before going in for testing, i decided to really thoroughly do some research on the school before getting truly invested in it… that’s when i found out a ton of info on major scams and how poorly the program is run. SO, i hope every single person who is interested in stepping foot into that school does their research! the company (an LA campus) was sued by 20 students for fraud… look it up on youtube. there is a video on there. other than that, people said that once they put the money down, there was really not alot of help for them and they were pretty much on their own to learn the material by themselves… definitely not something you want to pay $ 50k for.
anyways, at the second appointment, i made a list of questions to ask… all of which i got verrrry wishy-​washy answers to…
i asked if i could speak with some current students of the program as well as some program graduates. answer: «we don’t really do that. you could sit in on a class instead»…MY response: a program/​company who is proud and confident in how they run their business would be proud to hand out some phone numbers of references. end of story…
another question i asked was if i was able to see a copy of the contract that i would be signing if i entered into the program. stefanie’s answer: «we have a copy of the contract but you’re only allowed to see it when you enroll. we don’t allow anyone to see it beforehand. if you don’t like the terms, you don’t have to sign it»…my response: if they didn’t have anything sketchy written in the contract, they would easily give me a copy to read through on my own.
another question: «what hospitals have hired carrington college graduates?»
her response: «i’ll have to check with the program director. i don’t have that information.»…i know for a fact that in the first interview we had, she rattled off a few different names of hospitals who have hired graduates.
another one: «how much money is due upfront and what is the payment schedule like?»
her answer: «i don’t have that information. that is something you’ll have to bring up when you meet with the financial advisor.»
…ready for the thing that set up the most red flags for me? i told her the first time i met with her that i was able to pay the tuition in full, without any grants or financial aid… she insisted that i still meet with a financial advisor to see if i would qualify for a grant or financial aid… you want to know why? that allows the school to get money from the government! so, they honestly don’t care if you have all of the money or not, they still want you to have grants so they can make more money off of you… SO, if you’re going to ignore all of my advice, please don’t ignore this one! if you can pay the tuition in full, do not try to qualify for a grant.
the end. stay FAR, FAR, FAR away.