Corinthian Colleges Calling It Quits

mommywifenurse29 · Apr 28, 2015

I would think that college would have been a topic of even the slightest discussion in the final three years of any American high school. Seriously doubt that high school counselors or teachers are lauding the benefits of ITT, Everest, or Wyotech instead of NC State, Georgia Tech, or the local community college, as a starting point.

I am the first person in my family to graduate from high school and college. At my high school, they actually didn't do much directing on colleges at all. No guidance counselor helped me with college admissions at all. There was no discussion at home about college. I only ended up going to a 4 year college because it seemed like that was the "normal" thing to do and I knew I wanted a better life than what I had. I ended up at my community college but when I started my nursing program, I had no clue about accreditation and nclex pass rates. I had no clue exactly what to look for in a good nursing program. I could have been one of those ones stuck in a program like that. So yes it can happen.

elkpark · Apr 28, 2015

Hey, if it were up to me, these "schools" would never have been allowed to operate in the first place. I would like to see all the proprietary schools shut down. But the decision was made a lot higher than me that letting the "free market" and for-profit businesses operate in academia was a good idea. None of the stuff you're complaining about was secret -- the information was freely available if people just did any tiny bit of research up front (just on this site, we've been warning people about these "schools" for many years). You were told the school was highly respected? By whom, staff at the school? Did you ask anyone else? Did you look into this any further, "shop around" at other schools, before you made a commitment, or did you just take their word for it? I'm sorry you feel like your education was worthless, but they did provide you with what they agreed to provide, a nursing education that met the state BON requirements for licensure, and you did pass the NCLEX and get a job. People make the choice to attend a particular school, often on the basis of less research than they would put into buying a new refrigerator. You made the choice to attend the school, and to continue attending despite having some bad experiences and serious doubts about the program, and the money was loaned to you on the basis of your agreement to repay the loans. I think it's horrible, and a national disgrace, that these "schools" have been allowed to prey on people for as long as they have, but I also think there has to be some responsibility taken on the part of the students, as well.

LittleCandles · Apr 28, 2015

Actually in many nursing homes, my school was respected... At the time. However when the DOE came and started investigating them (while I was in school) the reputation went out the window. Our teachers stopped showing up. In MY area it wasn't as bad as the schools in California and Arizonia. They still lied (A LOT) but even "a little bit of research" was based off other programs not PN and my ultimate reason for going was based off previous students I knew experience, which was nothing like what I experienced.

My experience was hell. I was accuse of being racist, I was asked to sell my baby to a staff member who had all information, I was harassed by staff while in school and out.

Oh and they tried to sneak an additional 1800 on my loan and I didn't catch it until the day I graduated and I had to fight to get that back.

I actually did not find any negative threads about Everest PN program other then it was expensive but easy to get in if you pass the HESI.

LittleCandles · Apr 28, 2015

Also you're giving some of these students too much credit. Like I said they were luring non-English speaking students, students who didn't even have a GED (so they would get them that and then convince them to enroll in another program), students who couldn't even turn on a computer, let alone do a search on the web, students who could barely spell education.

This school knew it had a bad rep and so they went after students who couldn't research on their particular program. I'm not saying I shouldn't pay my loans. I am and not complaining. I went to Everest because I had 3 kids at the time and needed my PN ASAP and didn't want to wait 4 years to get into the PN or 7 years to get Into the RN program at the community college. You don't think they don't use that to their advantage? Wait lists and desperation got many of us to enroll. Luckily we enrolled in the program with potential to get a job. Not the joke programs like MA, dental assistant, admin assistant, MT, ect ect ect...

You should hear some of these students stories. They're not asking tax payers to pay their loans, they're asking CCI to pay them back.. I don't think that's a lot to ask.

When we were told we were going to a teach out and could 1) finish 2)quit now and get a "refund" (it wasn't even guaranteed.. We had to appeal and go thru hoops but we were promised refunds and the people I knew who did this option have yet to get a refund) 3) go to another campus 3.5 hours away. They also didn't tell us we could be shut down at any time by DOE and not let back in but if we signed we wanted to finish or switch campuses we were signing we wouldn't get a refund.

lovinglife2015 · Apr 28, 2015

I went to this "school".
The education was worthless. Yes, I graduated and got my PN diploma. Yes, I managed to pass the NCLEX. Yes, I managed to get a job. However I was ill prepared when I started working. The community college students who got their licenses and graduated when I did could do laps around me.
Luckily I am learning more in the job but this school is a joke. I paid 33,000 . Don't get me started on how unprofessional they were also. (My enrollment advisor asked me to sell him my baby for 10k or have a baby for him and his wife but it involved doing it "the old fashion way")
I'm glad they're finally getting shut down.

$33K?! I'm curious, why were you attracted to the school? Community college programs cost half that amount if not less. Were finances of no concern?

edit: oh, never mind, you answered on the next page.

Here.I.Stand, BSN, RN · Apr 28, 2015

This is a good time to share this link again. It's very informative.
College, Inc. | FRONTLINE | PBS

This one is, too...so far, anyway; I'm about 3/4 through Part 1

TheCommuter, BSN, RN · Apr 28, 2015

I would think that college would have been a topic of even the slightest discussion in the final three years of any American high school.

I attended high school in a working-class city in coastal southern CA that sent only 8 percent of its graduates to four-year institutions every year.

Upon high school graduation the vast majority of my former classmates entered the low-paying entry-level workforce, enlisted in the military, or married young and lived off parents and/or public assistance. The message I received, both from home and the school, is that college is unnecessary.

pixiestudent2 · Apr 28, 2015

So I just saw a commercial for Everest. Most of the schools were sold to a student loan servicer, and now all Everest schools are considered non profit and they lowered their tuition 20%...

Is it me or does this seem even sketchier than before.....?

SmilingBluEyes · Apr 28, 2015

If the school is heavily advertising and making seemingly impossible promises-----------in other words if it seems to good to be true------if they advertise during Maury Povich or Jerry Springer, well you might have to understand, they are shady----------caveat emptor. If I had my way, they would all be shut down.

LittleCandles · Apr 28, 2015

So I just saw a commercial for Everest. Most of the schools were sold to a student loan servicer, and now all Everest schools are considered non profit and they lowered their tuition 20%...
Is it me or does this seem even sketchier than before.....?

I thought they were all being closed?

pixiestudent2 · Apr 28, 2015

I thought they were all being closed?

A majority of the schools were sold a few months ago, I think only the 27 that weren't sold were shut down.

LadyFree28, BSN, LPN, RN · Apr 28, 2015

I attended high school in a working-class city in coastal southern CA that sent only 8 percent of its graduates to four-year institutions every year.
Upon high school graduation the vast majority of my former classmates entered the low-paying entry-level workforce, enlisted in the military, or married young and lived off parents and/or public assistance. The message I received, both from home and the school, is that college is unnecessary.

I think people don't realize how wide the education gap in our country is.

A lot of public schools slashed Guidance Counselors; so where do the kids that don't have structure and the means-whether it be self esteem and gumption or a self image-that slip through the cracks? Social Programs? Oops, those are slashed too.

I was able to be so stubborn and have a plan and research to do well in school, to have an idea of what I wanted to do, and have the ability to research and do my due diligence to get through the higher education process; I also was involved in social programs and projects to help me become exposed and get dozen of scholarships.

However, what was my stumbling block was my mother's idea that I didn't need a college education, and here strife with her college-educated sisters-which could've helped, but my outlook was I was a child and I had to pave my own way to get out from under my mother's nonsensical thumb to do it my way; my fall back was my older sister who had to contend with the same mother.

Fortunately, we are both college graduates.

Sometimes I look back and I could've avoided a 12 year plan to a Bachelor's Degree somehow...but to be honest, it would have to have my mother behave differently, or be born to parents that were supportive enough to want their children to want MORE, regardless of whether they were illiterate or college educated.

I am all too cognizant that when I graduated high school, was the era of selling off public school in lieu of charter schools, state control that saw public schools stripped in a city that didn't need that to happen-I'm sure there are many school districts across the county that have to contend with no budget and families where there and self-defeating self serving interests and many are falling through the cracks, along with adults who rely on the fundamentals of desperation to fuel a means to an end who, in turn, fall prey to these "commercial schools".