Carrington College
Reviews and Complaints

In 2010 I take course for "Medical Billing" needless to say this was New Program when I taken it. Didnt know that till after enrolled, anyways Graduated with 4.0 etc. Well this type of field REQUIRES at least 5yrs experience the least I saw was 1yr in Kansas(I was an CA during this time)! ^ Years later Ave never been able to utilize this CERTIFICATE due to NO Experience now have a 16000 debt for a PIECE OF PAPER! Now they are known as Harrington College! I would never do a Trade School again!

same thing happen to me, I end up in debt for $16K for nothing, , I even made an appeal, because I already finish the first term of the program, I had a disagreement and issues with one of the teacher that puts me down and made my way so difficult. the program director sided with that teacher, and I end up as a looser after the board's decision to drop me because they thought I am not capable of pursuing the program and will not do good on the board exam. with one class missed by .01 pt. if I could find a good lawyer that will allow me to pay after the pursuit,
I will go after them, but thinking that I will pay more if I will pursue the complaint, I might end up to more debt and will have more financial burden at the end.

hey smg2010. Why have you not sued them? If you said that you left messages that is some kind of proof. Do you have any recordings of them, emails, letters, phone statements? Hearing about your situation makes me have second thoughts about taking online courses. It is burst my bubble when I was reading your complaint. They should not get away with this! Don't feel discouraged. It was a bad experience you had. But, you learn from your mistakes. I hope that your luck has gotten better.
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Thanks for responding to my comment. Yea Tony Legler is ###ing jerk off. It is a good thing you didn't enroll in that ###ing program. Did he put off the attitude that he was better than everyone? Well he thinks he is better than everyone but in reality, he nothing but a piece of ###. I had him as an instructor and believe he is as bad as they come. KS she is a ### and if she doesn't like you she will do anything in her power to make you fail or kick you out of the program. Yea, Oscar King I know he is a joke. His class was so boring and so ill informed, that I had to do most of my anatomy learning at home or from my parents which are a nurse and a doctor. Thank god I took course on that at De Anza College. They make the Surgical Tech program there like its the best in California and if you get in its like its a honor, but thats far from the truth. Skyline College in San Bruno has a better Surgical Tech program and it only cost $1500.00 for the whole thing, not $34, 000. People that kiss "KS" ### are such silly ### it would make me sick just being around them. "KS" boyfriend committed acts of sexual harassment and she did nothing about it. The girls who were victims of it, came and told here and she said to them if they complained she would kick them out of the program. Yea they wanted to leave a mark, a skid mark like on someone dirty underwear. When I got kicked out I actually told them thank you and to kiss my ###. What did the other colleges have to say about them? I really want to know. Email me at angelkid9900@sbcglobal.net and tell me, because it would kind of help my court case. All the instructors are friends that knew each other before they started teaching there and most were in the military, so you know what that means. So yea man, you made the right choice by not going there. I wish I did the same. Now I'm stuck paying back $30, 000 on a education I didn't even get.

i just enrolled a few days ago at carrington, and im still going back and forth about actually going there because this is ALOT of money for something that may or may not benefit me finacialy. ive done the research on the web about complaints and im starting to back out. the representative at the college talked to me about how i would have to put in my all and he made it seemed like i will get through it as long as i attend school and do my best. oh! and that hes not getting any "bonuses" for helping us out, that right there set off an alarm because i was thinking hes so full of BS i know! hes getting something out of this for sure...anyways just putting in my thought because im a mom and im trying to give my son the life that i didnt have and i want to set a good example and the last thing i want to hsve is getting into debt

I graduated from Western Career College back in 1994 in Medical Assistant. Back then, the school was much better and I did quite well for myself. However, the school only cost $5, 500 back then. What I do not understand is: why would someone pay $26, 000 to enroll in an ultrasound technology program that IS NOT ACCREDITED! I mean, does anybody ever do any research on these programs before signing a contract for $26, 000? You guys have the Internet, for God sake. So, it is not like you have to leave your house to research the school.

Before I enrolled in Western Career College, this is what I did. I CALLED HOSPITALS AND ASKED THEM, "I am considering enrolling into Western Career College, Would you hire a graduate from this school? Have you hired graduates from this school and were you happy with the results? Would I need any form of certification to be hired in your center. Thank you very much for the help." IT IS THAT SIMPLE PEOPLE.

I have been scammed before (credit offer with a $250 dollar up-front payment. I lost the $250) and I think it sucks for hard working people to be scammed out of their money, especially in a recession. But come on, you really have no one to blame but yourselves. To spend $16, 000-$26, 000 on the promise of a salesman and a brochure, without verifying any of it by calling hospitals or researching it on the Internet was just lazy on your part. I hope it is a lesson learned.

I did enroll and I am very sorry I did. Your assesment of the school is correct. This is my story:

I attended the Dental Assiting Program from Sept 2008 to May 2009. I am not at all happy with this college and its program ethics.

The recruiters are, of course, very helpful and nice. However, once you are committed and start the program, all communication is shut down. From the receptionist at the front desk, to the career services dept, all are usually not available when you need them.

A word of caution. As a dental assistant student, you need to recruit your own patients to practice your techniques. In other words you need 4 different people willing to come in for x-rays that meet a certain criteria, and 3 more to come in for a coronal polish. They DO NOT tell you this at the beginnning and IT IS REQUIRED to graduate.

Another problem they do not reveal at the beginning is that you MUST complete a career booklet in order to graduate that IS NOT related to your field of study. It is purely a "how to know yourself to get a job" type of assignment. It is a completely ridiculous, but very time consuming booklet that IS REQUIRED. They do not tell you how to do the booklet and it is extremely difficult to figure out how to turn it in as there are many contradictory errors in assignments. The booklet is very badly put together. The career services instructer, Yvette, that gives you the booklet, just rants and raves about how good she is at her job during the seminar and does not instruct you on how to finish the booklet. She is only interested in promoting herself.

Also the instructor that I experienced in my program for dental assisting didn't have enough workable knowledge of how to teach the program properly. She didn't even know how to pronounce the word epiglotis properly! And we have spelling and terminology tests 3 times per week! Also she was very inconsistent with her assignment instructions and changed her mind frequently on matters pertaining to turning in assignments and when tests were scheduled. In other words, you never knew what to expect.

I really felt that my $16, 000 could have been put to better use at another college. If I knew then what I know now about this college, I would have NEVER applied.

My advice to anyone considering Western Career College in Pleasant Hill is to NOT APPLY! It is an extreme waste of your, or your parents hard earned money.

I went back in 2010 for healthcare information tech program. They never told me they were taking six loans out in my name. I never found a job after completing the program. No business would hire me because they don’t recognize that school and said there is no way you can learn everything in nine months. Here it is 2023 and I still have 13 thousand left to pay. They get away with taking ppls money and promising things that isn’t true or hiding about how many loans they will be taking out. If I had known this years ago I would never gone to them

I paid $17, 000 out of pocket & fafsa covered the rest. Then they sent me to collections for an extra $1, 700 when it was signed & promised that fafsa would cover it.

Years ago I attended Western Career college and paid about 13 thousand dollars. Not only did they fail at job placement, they hindered my ability to get a job when the medical assistant teacher actually gave me a bad reference. I never got the job. I never worked as a medical assistant. I had the certificate but it was totally worthless!

and by the way, I've been stuck with student loans I cannot pay!

I agree still no job after graduation they say going to their school is experience, apparently in the real world it is not experience and you need it to get a job. The school promises to assist you in job referrals, they did not. I also never received any certificate after a 18 month course in medical billing AS degree program. All I have are my grades. I was told the credits can be transferred to a college, that was untrue. I graduated with a 4.0 and still can't get a job doing medical billing. I am thinking of seeing for false representation.

I graduated two years ago from the Surgical Tech program. I had to interview for one of my internships and I was luckily chosen out of a few classmates. Ultimately, I was called a few days before my internship was suppose to start and was told that the hospital I was suppose to intern for decided against me and chose three other Surgical Tech students from Hi-Tech (Anthem College) because they didn't want to take any precautions with taking a student from Western Career College. So despite me being a good student, other intern sites still have a negative view on Western Career College and their students. It's been two years since graduating and still have no chance on getting a job. I've tried doing entry level jobs at hospitals just so I can work my way up in hopes I could transfer into a Surgical Tech position and can't because there will always be someone who has actual working experience than I do. Two months worth of being an intern nothing to employers. They don't even call you because they don't want to waste their time training a new tech. It's really sad and very stressful having to pay back student loans for graduating from that program when you don't even have a job period! All I have to say to new students is really think about what you're doing. I'm having to go to community college in a different field in hopes that I won't have the same thing happen to me again. I wish the best of luck to all of you and please think your school/career decisions through.

I do not recommend WCC. I attended dental assisting program there and it was a complete disaster. WCC kept firing and hiring teachers all the time, we had about 5 different "teachers" unfortunately most of them knew absolutely nothing about dental assisting. I've seen cases of discrimination as well. Also, WCC even failed to provide dental insurance and dental software instruction as promised so we ended up not having the adequate skills set to get a simple entry level job. If you want to get a decent training and a job, community colleges are the best option.

that is they refuse to accept me into the rt program due to a disability

from the look of things these persons may be right, cause i am in the process of getting a similar experience with them as well.discriminating against a student due to a disability.

My wife went there for 7 months and because of that [censor] what they call miss Shirley came home crying everyday for the last 3 weeks It is like everyone says IT IS A SCAM don't throw away your money, MY wife Cindy over heard Karen Shirley say to one of the teachers "we have to flunk somebody" that is their way of getting more money.
I have a real hot shot lawyer and if anyone wants to be part of a class action law suite send me an e-mail to
notfoggytoday@yahoo.com thanks Frank