Altierus Career College / Everest Institute
Reviews and Complaints

hello my name is Shantel Daley i was a Student at Everest collage in Canada Onatrio at the Mississauga location in 2013 i been trying to get in contact for years and have been unsucessful im not sure what to do im trying to move on to second career choice and its hard i can longer get finacial help because i refused to pay back for something i never received. i have all my documents an proof that i went and finished sucessfully pls help where do i go from here?

My watch is missing student request my watch during testing time. I call this an alert a student request to use my things I notice the guy in class didn't say so he should speak up no get your own things you're not ready stay with your own well being you no what time it is. This is repeated plenty of times leave me alone mind your buisness. So school is closed 2015 so is my watch do to what student chief complaint lab study school work. This watch is sentimental architecture maybe; mines overall would be pleased to find out if you all found it give it back. Everest merrionette Illinois 10-2pm 2013 it's abuse I'm telling you I'm having signs of it informing you this is it. Inform tribune online job these materials are heavy along with theft. My books are gone behavior disorder different folks home health care side experience deserve equal rights on time.

I worked for Everest College Hamilton Mountain Campus under the campus president Connie Greubel for many years. Even when it was known as CDI College, before the name change.
I finally left because I was no longer able to deal with the internal business practices.
This is a warning and notice to all previous students of the Hamilton Campus Mountain and Downtown under Connie. She used to have instructors adjust marks after the student had failed a test or course. So the student might have been kicked out, dropped or even received a lower grade. But the internal records show that the students had all their marks in the 90% range or higher. This is how she won employee of the year with Corinthian College. Her right hand Darlene Tenbroeck was involved, covering up so that the audits, which were coplete shams, showed a glowing report for the school. Meanhile, the student was either dropped or graduated with a lower mark.
If you are a previous grad from either of these 2 campus locations, CALL

Recent grads Please don't think this is a quick fix to job skills opposed to college. THIS IS NOT COLLEGE
just a bunch of incompetents Charged with the task of creating additional incompetents.. .. Which is how you feel after a few months. Paid over 15k to show up and be treated like less than they are because I defy and challenge what they throw at me. There are few really guiene instructors and career counselors, advisors that are really dedicated to providing you with the best but all the other drama will bring and keep your spirits down. Not sure but. May need to overhaul a few programs and get new personnel I'm so glad to have made it with a great GPA. What did I really learn the first few months. How to bite my tongue I had no other options. I don't want anything but to be done with this school. And it's staff of incompetents

The number above is the number that keeps calling me, after I wouldn't answer the phone because I had no idea who it was they kept calling and calling while I was at work. I finally called back only to find out that it was Everest Institute [college she called it].
She is telling me about the information that I had submitted to further my education, after I explained to her that when someone doesn't answer the phone after so many phone calls that means to stop calling, she then said no it means we are going to keep calling you until you answer. Then she proceeds to tell me about my information and I told her I have already taken care of it have a good day and hung up.

From my understanding as a young adult, if someone does not answer after so many calls, that means to stop calling. Not to mention there was NEVER a voicemail left as to why this number was calling me. In the end the person on the other end was rude so I got rude back. She seemed to hate her job, but that is not my problem.

If I get one more phone call from this number or Institute again without a message or even after I told them to stop calling I will get rude, and get them for harassment if possible. Do they offer costumer service class because this person may need it.

I have decided to go to school to become a pharmacy technician, but i have a felony charges in the past, so when i visit the campus for the first time, i present my problem with the counselor and also hand him my expunged documents at the same time, and i ask if i take this class, is it possible for my license to be granted, and he response, sure, why not, your case have been expunged, and he assured me with the statement we will help you in anyway for your license to be granted, so i believed them and took the course it last almost 1 year, and i was an outstanding student and an embassador for the campus, straight a student on the campus, so i graduated in 2009. And i applied for the license immediately, pass the state board examination with 98% and waited for almost 2 years to hear from the board of pharmacy that my license being denied. So i request a hear with state board to find out why, and i went to school and ask for help to appeal my case, and none of them were offering to help me with anything regarding to this issue. I lost the appeal with the court, and i went to school and complaint about the situation and the president at that time offer me another course to make up, so i took electronic medical record course. And i was sucessful complete that course and there weren't any graduatiom ceramony for this course. Until today i am still unemployed wtth school loan debt that i am struggling to pay for. (I thought i was going to turn my life around for the best but it turned out to be opposite of that, my career been destroyed by everest college.

I in rolled at Everst College in 2005 and stop going in 2007. I was allowed in by takeing an assessment test to be able to attented school i took up criminal justice. I did not have my high school diploma and the person who was responsible that day fixed the test for me and a friend of mine to past. I was never told how much money i was gettinf from sallie mae .And i never recieved and mony back no checks no nothing.Now my credit is messed up and i still dont have an education and cant get one because of the loans and the money the school wants from me.I think its unfair and very unlawfull and i should have never been able to attend this school they tricked me and i was really trying to get my life togethr.Now i am mentally unfocus and very emtional destress I take prozac and pressure pill because i can not move on because of Everst College.

My name is pamela. I attended this college in 2009. I obtained a loan through sallee Mae in order to attend. Which currently I still owe over 15, 000 dollars. During the 9 months I went to this school I was also charged a fee every month of 200 $ or more, if I couldn't pay the school their required fees they would send notes to my class or my teacher or tell me I won't graduate. I paid over 1800$ to the school before I graduated.I was promised a career making what they made it sound like a 20 dollar an hour job. I'm working in the field I graduated from for 6 years now and I'm making a few dollars over minimum wage. These companies start you out at 9 an hour. I felt lied and betrayed. I could've went to a real college for one more year and be making more money. I still have to work two jobs. Don't believe the commercials.

I attended Everest College in 2013, graduated 2014. I have never had a job in my field, and will not be able to aquire a job in this field due to Everest. I have paid into a $20, 000 student loan. Now all of a sudden they stop taking payments...why? If my education is null and void, shouldnt the money I paid the government for school also be null and void? They should have to pay us back every cent we paid into our debts. A debt that has brought me in no way further ahead. Is there anyone who might have some answers for me.

The reason I chose to go to Everest College is that I was given a grant to go back to school and it was one of the organizations that offer’s a condensed program in a short amount of time. I took the addiction studies program that is 8 months long with another 2 months of co-op placement.
The course was a waste of time and Everest taught the bare minimum. A few weeks in I was wondering when I was going to start learning ‘the real’ information. A few months in I realized there was never going to be any ‘real’ education. The best way for me to describe the courses would be to call them ‘introduction’ courses. What I mean by that is that they tell you what the course is about; there are a few definitions, but the real meat and potatoes of the course never seems to happen. Some courses are as short as 5 days. Pharmacology is one of these short courses and to even call it a course is laughable. Some days the instructor would put on a movie, that was a few years old and everyone had seen, because it had some vague connection to addiction or drug abuse. Class was supposed to be from 8am to 12 o’clock noon. Class never started until 8:20-8:30 and some days let out as early as 10:30. We were told we could stay and study at the school, or we could go home and study there. The trouble was there was a lot of time to study, but there was not enough information to need to study. I stopped studying for the ‘exams’ a month into the program and I still passed them all. In a program in which I had no prior training, I was able to not read the textbooks, not study for the exam and still excel in all of the courses. This should give you some idea of how good a program Everest offers.
The exams themselves were littered with spelling mistakes, grammatical errors and the information itself was either very dated or simply wrong. I pointed out the various mistakes on the exams to the instructors as well as the staff of the school, but they didn’t do anything about them. The exams are gospel to them and apparently they come from some ‘head office’ and no one has any authority to change them. Not even the spelling mistakes were addressed or corrected and my concerns were just shrugged off.
This brings me to the instructor of the addictions program. There are actually 2, but I attended the morning classes so I can only really speak about my personal experience. The instructor made it very clear early on that this is one of 2 jobs that he has, and teaching this program is the lesser of the two. He spent quite a bit of class time telling us about his other job and told us that that was his real passion. Not only that, but he actually took work calls for his other job while teaching at the front of the class. He took the calls in another language so he didn’t think we understood anything he was saying. I guess he never thought students ending up at Everest would have studied abroad.
If you spend any time in the school, you begin to feel a tension in the air. Many of the staff members are really angry and have huge chips on their shoulders. I don’t know why this is but it becomes obvious really quickly. The financial department will be constantly on you about keeping your payments up and if for any reason you get behind, they ask you to leave class until you’re paid up.
For the addictions program you have to buy and wear scrubs every day. When I got them I thought it was neat that we were going to be spending some time in a lab environment. That never happened. We had to wear scrubs to sit in a classroom for 8 months. This just turned out to be another way for the school to make money and ‘look’ like a real school, which it so isn’t.
After completing the classroom portion of the program I was put into a co-op placement where I was supposed to be able to practice what I learned. This could not have been further from the truth. There was no counseling to be done or had where I was placed, but it wouldn’t have mattered because I wouldn’t have felt comfortable counseling anyone about anything. Students are simply not given any of what it takes to be qualified to work in this field. The other programs may be better, but I doubt it. If you’re considering going to Everest for their Addictions program, simply don’t waste your time. We live in a city with excellent educational facilities so there is no need to rush through the type of education offered by Everest. In fact it is no education at all. Everest is a for-profit business first, and a school second; a very distant second. If you want to go back to school for whatever reason, get an education that you can be proud of, not one that you’ll regret.

My name is Krystal Marschke I am a former Everest student I graduated in July of 2011 after receiving my degree I began job searching immediately and began to search for jobs within local pharmacies and hospitals. I went to numerous interviews just to be told that I did not qualify for the job due to where I went to school because Everest did not teach me the skills I needed to be a Registered Pharmacy Technician. I have been harassed by Everest and their affiliated schools as well as collections companies to pay off my numerous student loans. I am now getting a proper education at National American University after learning that none of the credits from Everest were able to be transferred and also learned that I am now in debt for the next twenty years due to Everest and their fraudulent practices and loosing their accreditation several times my license to practice was null and void. I spent nine months of my life in a school that gave me false hopes and told me that I would be successful in a pharmacy. I made straight A's and held a 4.0 GPA and was a honor roll student and I can not use my license due to the fraudulent education Myself and many of my family members and close friends received. Everest screwed me .. Point blank they took federal money from my student loans and did not give me the education I deserved. I feel like I should receive some form of compensation due to being defrauded by a "school" that did not give me the education I deserved and worked for. Everest is closing it's doors in Eagan, Minnesota after a lawsuit out of Massachusetts forced eleven locations to close it's doors for good. Please help me get my complete tuition back so I can close this chapter and move on with my life once and for all.

I graduate everest since 2010. Not even one call from counselor or anybody to say I help You find a job. Finding out later the program is less than what everest claim it to be. Ending with loans and no jobs. I was not able to go back to school. It also break my heart to see one my classmate who was A student. Years later im thinking she find a job. But I saw the girl jobless and beggin money on the street. When everest promise they will help us find job.

This school mislead me in what they had to offer, what i would be making once i graduated, class sizes, teacher accommodation's, school accreditation's and what they were willing to do for me. They have discriminated against me and many students on color, race, and how much money we have. They pick favorites and treat each student differently and make each student follow separate rules. It is the 2nd week into our 4th block and we still have no books, and the teachers are till expecting our work to be done. There is no one to talk to or rely on. This school is a joke.

I wanted to become a massage therapist, the campus closest to me was everest college. If i would have known how horrible this place was going to turn out to be i would have never went to school here. First of all, when i went to school it was originally named everest college. I was excited about becoming a massage therapist, they told me that i would get my own table and i would get to pick the color, that we also had pinning ceremonies at the end of our last module but halfway into schooling, the company bryman college bought over everest, and it just all sucked. Firstly, when i received my paper to order my table, they had the choice of green, black, purple and blue. . I picked blue because i thought it was a relaxing color. When i received my table it was black, what they failed to tell me was that the school was broke and that ordering tables in bulk would be cheaper for them and everybody got the same color, plain black. I know it may not seem like a big deal to people, but the fact that i was told i was going to pick my own color and then without telling us they go ahead and just do whatever they wanted to do was annoying. After that happened a month or two before my graduation date they told me that they removed the pinning cermonies, i wasnt going to get my massage therapy pin, that the mod before me was the last to get a ceremony and to be honest i dont really know why. I think its because they didnt have money either. . . But like what? How is that my fault or problem? Were going into debt, were going to pay all this money and slowly everything that was going to be worth it for a second is taken away from us. . . Thats all little stuff compared to what im truly mad about. Okay so i graduated in march 2014, we were told that june 16 was going to be our graduation day where everybody looks forward to walking across stage. With no warning they canceled that date and for months after i graduated i had no information about our graduation ceremony, i would text my teacher and nobody seemed to have information about it. I came to accept the fact that we werent going to have one. . Which is complete b. S. . Especially after all the money this school costs. ! Now i finally have been told that our graduation is going to be in august, and it isnt going to be just our school anymore, its going to be san francisco location as well as san joses campus. . . Not only is that so annoying and frustrating its so stupid! Thats going to be like a 3 hour graduation - __ - i dont want my friends and family to have to commute to san francisco for my graduation, they probably arent even going to show up which is just so sad and stupid to me. . . I really hate this school and i hope nobody comes here ever. This my not be important to you, but if you were graduating, watching all your friends post pictures of their graduation in the summer while you have no infrmation on yours, you would be upset too.

Admissions Rep, Teo, Gave false information while giving information about their medical assisting program to attract more interest in the program.
Beginning of January 2013, I met with Teo, my admissions rep, who knew I was interest in becoming an RN. I told him, I was only interested in taking a program that would get me a step closer to my RN career.
He stated that their MA program would be the best fit for me as oppose to LVN School because " LVNs are running out of work". He also said, there will be bridge courses for MA to RN programs. And as far as LVNs go, they will soon be forgotten as MAs are taking over. I got excited hearing this because I thought this would be a quicker way to become an RN. He also said I would get my CNA certification. Just to clarify, I said "Certified NURSE ASSISTANT" Certification. He said yes, which is another step closer to my goal as an RN. He also said MAs are in demand, and with the help of career services, I should get a job in no time.
The truth?
-I'm a graduated MA, still applying for jobs along with career services "helping me". They have done my resume for me, so I feel confident my resume is not the problem. It's been months down the road, still no call backs from the leads "they have sent out my resume to".
-I have some questions for my admission rep TEO; So can you please tell me more about that school that takes MAs and bridges them off to RN? Can you also lead me to the right direction of where I can get my CNA certification since you said this program would help me? And where you stated I would get time reduced in half for it? OR how about helping me find a school that will take my credits towards my RN PROGRAM. Perhaps you can explain to me or point me in the right direction as far as putting my one year of schooling from EVEREST towards my RN program? (I cant express that enough as I feel I wasted a whole year on this when I could of started my ACTUAL PROGRAM) Since I told you I didn't want to waste time, and that I wanted to JUMP right in to my CORRECT PROGRAM THAT WILL GET ME STARTED ON MY CAREER THAT I WANTED?

-No time reduced, as I am treated like a first year nursing student. No special or different, no credits transferred and all I have to carry with me is my knowledge.
Which is what leads me to the answer Ive been hearing from my complaint. "But you have a head start out of everyone in your LVN nursing program, it least you have the knowledge"
What I think?
No, I may have the knowledge and I may be ahead for the little that the MAs and LVNs have in common, but that certainly does not change my graduation date nor the time I wasted in your MA program. Money wasted once again, I didnt want to waste 20, 000 dollars to have knowledge, your MA program is not a PRE-REQ to MY NURSING PROGRAM. So stop giving me the excuse "It least you have knowledge and your ahead of your class"

I am happy with the education I got (as far as the teachers go) its the admissions department I am not happy with. Why couldn't Teo just say, "look, if you want to become an RN, You should GO TO OUR ONTARIO METRO CAMPUS WHERE WE HAVE AN RN PROGRAM" OR "Perhaps the MA program is not for you as THERE ARE NO BRIDGES from MA TO RN, maybe you should find an LVN program to better suit your needs" Instead of beating around the bush telling me this is a step closer to my RN Career.

5/19/2014 RYAN from the Student Help Line called. I wish I could of explained my story in person because there was a bit of conflict in our phone conversation. She kept talking over me as I was trying to tell her my story, this school has been nothig but tears to me, no one wants to understand me or HELP! Why can't Everest College just LISTEN to me as the student? I paid $20, 000 TO BE IGNORED? Lied To? Lead On? Why did she respond to the BBB, as she didn't know what TEO said to me, she wasn't there. It's all lies..Teo is full of promises and lies, and when it boils down to higher staff, all he did was DENY EVERYTHING. I must have a stamp on myself that says NAIVE, because all he had to do was say, this program is not the track for your career goals...

Everest is very good at selling their programs to perspective students, but once they've got you and your money, there is little to no follow through. The programs are weak in substance and the promises they make of getting you a job? What i've seen is people being placed in minimum wage jobs for co - op placements doing work that no training is required to do. (Serving food or emptying garbages / cleaning) . I 'graduated' one of their programs this year (I prefer to keep this confidential) and can honestly say i learned very little. Mostly common sense stuff. Towards the end of my 'education' at everest college (Ottawa) , there was a really negative vibe going around at the school. A lot of students being rightfully upset about being misled. Not a very good experience that just left a bad taste in my mouth. I would advise against going to everest. Its a short cut that you'll wish you hadn't taken. This of course is just my opinion, but from the looks of things, i'm far from the only one with this experience. If you're interested in going to a school like this, take the time to walk around and speak to some of the students and find out what they think. Take your time in deciding and do your homework about the school you want to attend. I wish i had done more. Good luck with your education :)

They make up rules as they go such as no hats in the building even when you're not in class cause it's a health violation and discriminate against my fiancé and I every day we go there for classes they said we were having sex out in the parking lot when we were outside just talking on her break from class therefore the students lie as well. Also we are not allowed to give a hug or kiss before class cause that's considered having sex in school. Also one student brought his kid in there while his wife was in school and no one said anything to him about it but when I did the dean Rachael McCowan told me to take the kid out of the school cause she's a threat to the school. One teacher is so pushy about things in class and if you miss one day she'll give you an F for it. Also I failed one class and they had to redo my loan to take out a bigger loan an the finance person in nicer terms then what I want to say stopped me as I was walking to class and told me I CANNOT go to class that day because the loan paperwork overrides the class. This school is nothing but a bunch of careless lying and discriminating ###!

This school lies! No where in the student handbook does it say anything about PDA but yet they constantly harass me and my fiancé about a quick kiss before class yet let others get away with it. No where in the student handbook does it say I can't wear a hat when I'm not in class yet they try to tell me there not allowed and it's a health hazard to the school. Another student brought their kid into the school while he waits for his wife to get out of class an no one says anything to him but when I tried it I got told to take the kid out of the school cause she's a threat to the school.

this Everest College is nothing but a rip-off and can be sued for False Advertisement. they promise things that they don't even keep up with. i took the criminal justice course and never got hands-on all we students did was nothing but work book. there are so many things i have to point out. these people from everest are only offering me nothing but security guard and loss prevention jobs which is totally ridiculous because my brother in law didn't even graduate highschool and works as a security. so why em i going to accept this job offer when the whole purpose of me going to college was to have a better job finically. this school also made me signed a paper for them not to get sued or otherwise my exit student package would count as Uncompleted therefore they wouldn't give you the diploma for not completing the signatures they wanted. i don't see why i have to be paying thousands of dollars on a school who literally did nothing for us, all they did was getting us in debt with them for them to get money off of us. I been looking for jobs within the career i studied for and i do not meet the requirements because they want people with hands-on experience, how will that benefit us graduates who were not provided with the necessary tools to gain experience i n school!? this school honestly needs to pay my loan because that piece of paper called diploma which i haven't received since april when i graduated won't benefit me in any way. that diploma is so meaningless a person can wipe their ### with it and it wouldn't make a difference because all my hard work and sacrifice was made for nothing but a paper that is useless.