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In November 2014, I was interested in furthering my career so I decided to go to Everest Institute in Gahanna, Ohio. I was interested in taking the Medical Assistant Program. When I first went to Everest Institute, it would have been nice if the admissions rep that had helped me would have been truthful with me on certain things like how much an MA starts out making. They told me $15 to $16 an hour, that was a joke. When you got out in the real world and started working, you don't make near that much. Most places started $9 to $10 an hour. I might as well stayed at the job I had before I went to school. I made $11.50 at it. You spend $20,000 to better yourself and all you get is a $10 hr job. If I could turn back the clock, I would not have even wasted my time and money with going to Everest Institute, Gahanna, Ohio.

The worst part of this whole experience was that the career services did not help you find a job, all they did was look on the internet at such websites as indeed.com or monster.com to find jobs for students, and I did that on my own. They would call me about a job that they had found, but I would have already found the same job days before and I would already have an interview set up or went on the interview already. They were not professional people there, it is like they found someone off the street to fill the position, no experience whatsoever. What got me was in the whole 10 months I was there, they never had job fairs that would have been helpful for ones who were finishing up their programs. Have local employers come to the school for whatever fields they had classes in such as dental & medical assistant, medical billing and coding, so students could fill out applications and possibly get hired.

They had the ambassador program, you had to be a straight A student with perfect attendance to be in the program, but all they used that for was to get the students to do their dirty work such as: when new students came in, they had the ambassador's help with getting the new students correct scrubs and to their classrooms on the first day for whatever program they were in, and a lot of the other ambassadors wouldn't help each mode, it was the same ones helping out each mode. If you are going to sign up for something like that, at least have the common curiosity to do it, not just sneak off to class and the ambassadors that did sneak off to class. All they got was a slap on the wrist, no kind of disciplinary action was taken. Yes, when you did help out, you usually missed about 30 minutes of class.

They also said by being an ambassador that you would have better opportunities in getting hired. THAT WAS A BIG FAT LIE AND THIS SCHOOL IS A JOKE..... The Gahanna Everest Institute should be closed down indefinitely.. If anyone is interested in going to Everest Institute in Gahanna, Ohio, THINK TWICE ABOUT GOING. Do your research before you sign anything. The best choice anyone can make IS DON'T STEP FOOT IN THAT SCHOOL AT ALL. They fooled everyone who has gone there into thinking they will have a great paying job by making the big bucks. They definitely fooled me because I don't have a job and I am stuck with $20,000 to try and pay off. Just remember, do your research about this school, look into other schools that offer the same kind of programs. Find a school that BBB accredited because the Gahanna Everest Institute is not.

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Some students do well in spite of the Everest stigma and go on to flourish. They would have done that at ANY school, probably even without college. However, the facts are simple for most people, if you are willing to acquire a lot of debt at a for profit school because they won't expect you to really compete at a true college level, then you are simply too stupid to be in college. Any school that allows students to pass through even though they really can't do the college level work is a problem. Stop listening to college recruiters, liberals, Democrats, etc and find another path in life to get what you want. College is NOT for everyone, that has been the biggest lie made by many groups. The liberals tell you to to make themselves feel good, the colleges tell you to make money, the Democrats tell you this to pacify you and keep you down, which in turn keeps you voting for them. No logical person would select this path of acquiring $60,000 in debt, just to add 1 or 2 dollars an hour of pay. It is not a financially sound decision. You will never pay it off in a reasonable time. Cost vs benefit analysis people!

We must not forget - Everest is a Career School and every students should have a career upon completion. The tuition is extremely high and the type of education a person receives is not worth it. Students are basically given a certificate without attending class. Seriously, you can miss over 50% of class time and still receives an "A". That alone says so much about Everest. So please don't tell me you are a Houston Galleria graduate, single parent and a RN at the Medical Center... You are one of the few. We all know the history of Everest Institute especially the one's in your area. It's extremely important that we educate our kids and steer them in the right direction which is a Community College - Cheaper and a better Education. Results are everything and the record speaks for itself.

In 2002 the tuition was about half of what it was in 2014 and the cost of living was less. Taking that into consideration you would need at least $15 an hour today to make it worth the tuition cost. You also expect a person to go further into debt to continue their education when it's nearly impossible to pay for the debt they are in from Zenith. Not to mention that most of the credits from Everest and WyoTech won't transfer to a real college. The truth is, many of the students would be further ahead going to a community college for the same education at a fraction of the cost.

I graduated from Houston Galleria campus in 2002. Subsequently, I worked and continued my education, and now I am a RN in the Medical Center. I was a single parent, but was determined to improve myself and get off government assistance. No excuses, make it happen for your self.

I am with you... the last two post are from recruiters. Let's be real... the amount of debt a student receives after graduating from Zenith, a $10.00 job is not worth it. Remember we promise our students a career and not a job.

The last two posters sound like recruiters. It's easy to tell someone else that $10 an hour is ok. You forget that out of that $20,000 per year you have to deduct taxes, student loan payments, health insurance premiums, travel expenses, work clothing and then living expenses. That's not much of a return for an expensive education. Zenith/CCi don't care about how the graduates will afford things, it's about lying to the prospects to get them enrolled.

Let's see, $10/hr is about $20,080, on a full-time basis. With reasonable management of life expenses and continously improving yourself professionally, I would say that is a great start versus a life of layoffs and foodstamps. Get yourself certified and registered, gain experience from medical back office and in phlebotomy for example, and build your career from there. Whether a long term goal of being a nurse, pharmacist or medical administrative professional, use your MA education and opportunity, as a stepping stone to success.

This original poster sounds like an idiot. I know many people who are making a steady paycheck , and good benefits. It's what you do with your education, and it sounds like you just complain. I wouldn't hire you either if you don't understand entry level, and working your way up.

Sounds like Ol'Dave came on her tits and ass.

That sounds like Houston Hobby Campus.

In November 2014 Everest was still owned by CCi and CCi was on the brink of collapse. Why in the world would you have enrolled at any of CCI'S schools? Did you not do a background check on the school you were thinking of enrolling in? It was all over the internet and news about the trouble Everest was in. If you didn't at least do a Google search on the schools you deserve what you got. If you did research Everest and you still enrolled, there's no hope for you because you are terminally stupid.

It could be written about most if not all private for profit colleges. I am always amazed why anyone would go to a for profit college, when you can go to a community college and get classes that can transfer in case you don't complete the degree for about the same price. Why would anyone pay for classes that do not transfer! They will say they do, but they don't and that is the con. I have concluded that for profit colleges really are just another form of welfare for certain groups. They barely attend, barely know English and barely pass if they ever do at all. They don't go to real colleges, because they will be expected to actually do the work at a college level. It is about the stipend to live on I suspect. They have no intention of paying off the debt and also of really caring if they graduate at all. These schools could do a good job at tech training if they wanted to, but the money maker for them is students on government loans, GI bill and taking as many classes as allowed. So they have these degrees that are of no use to anyone when they graduate and the students end up with high debt and the same job as before. Its crazy. These colleges hire bleeding heart liberal cheer leaders for bosses that maybe really think they are cheer leading the students to a brighter future, when in reality they will just pile on the debt to these "not so bright" students.

Very well written. It sounds exactly like the Dallas school. Nobody finishing the MA program makes 15 dollars an hour. Spending money to go to Everest is the same as burning your money. Find ANY other school to get your education.

That could be written about any Everest or Wyotech.

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