# The teaching staff will give one class an easy test and then change it to a really difficult exam for other classes. I never thought there was anything wrong with this, however it became a problem when half of the answers on the new tests were incorrect. No doubt because the new tests where made with no revision or review. Teachers that dont want to be teachers not putting the time into the exam materials. They just do not care. They probably needed to fail out a few more students because thats what the classes are designed to do. Reduce class size to a manageable small group for clinical or hospital training. Instead of hiring on more staff to cover larger clinical groups students are simply failed out by unethical means such as tests with material not covered at all. # WOW # Well known also is that most nurses smoke. That includes the ones teaching at clinical assignments. This means that they are outside the building smoking about every twenty minutes or so. So here again it is easy to see that the students are all getting that maximum education from ECPI College of Technology. Right! That also means nobody knows really the kind of care patients are getting. # Watch out for ECPI College. They are very smart and deceptive. In all their contracts they put an ARBITRATION CLAUSE. To be direct this means that after they get your money and throw you out you have to go to virginia where their main office is and pay 700 dollars to have your claim hashed out by an arbitrator. This protects ECPI College from ever having to go to court where you as the student could get a fair hearing. Thats really low. Imagine the dirt these people must be to put that clause in their contract. The lowest of the low. # The charlotte campus really has their scamming down to a science. Its really ingenious to be able to tap into the hopes and desires of so many people to scam them for money. Last I heard the ECPI Bums charged each student 25, 000.00 for the one year LPN program and about 50, 000.00 for the two year RN program. This skummy money is what they suck out of people who are simply looking to be educated and show kindness to the rest of humanity.
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ECPI University Reviews & Complaints
ECPI was a complete rip off. I went to ECPI with the hopes of pursuing a career in criminal justice. My teachers were great, I learned a lot from them. However the Administration was very lacking. They say you can complete their courses in less than two years, and that is true if the class is offered. I had 5 or 6 classes left and some of them kept getting canceled. Because of this my graduation date kept changing. The told us the reason the class was canceled was due to a lack of students. I spoke with several students who were also set to take that class. There was around 10 of us signed up for the class. I had taken classes with as little a 4 students in it, so for them to say it was canceled due to a lack of students is a lie. So not only did they lie to us but the blamed it on us as well. Needless to say I did not get to complete my course at ECPI. It was a waste of my time and money. I would never never recommend ECPI to any one.
ECPI University Reviews & Complaints
I am currently a student at ecpi-charlotte in the medical administrative program i”m attempting an associate degree. Technically I graduated june 5, 2011. My issues are that administrative officers are enept, the financial aide department is crooked as evidenced to me when they made me return moneis that never made it back to the lenders, and later refunding the monies to me, only because a higher power uncovered that the funds were still in thier posession. They refuse to give me access to my own funds but constantly charging for items that have no origin, in other words they make charges for which do not account. They refuse to give me an accounting of my money both borrowed and recieved by ecpi. The federal government allows for the student to borrow money for room and board and other school related expensesfrom thier unsub loans, but ecpi wont let you borrow directly, nor will they account for any debited amounts. The whole program is a rip-off and by the time the student can figure this out you have spent copious amounts of money and then they start trying to keep you in school longer so they can continue to get every available dollar you have.in my 15 months, they withdrew me when they had other options and then they want you to pay to come back. The grading system is so bogus as to be on par with the “magic bullet theory; unbeleivable!!! Most of the teachers have no real world experience in what they teach, only took the class maybe and worked in a related field. They have been known to show complete bias for one group of students and tell another group they cant do or say whatever the other poeple did. Once I was treated like a complete criminal, was told to put my purse at the front of the class, because someone at the university of maryland had a cheating ring. We are charged for books we cant keep, and they wont let us have the books to use on our time, for more than the days school schedule, this in a coding &billing class; (how can you learn to code with no icd-10) book to look for the codes.) where I already knew more than my instructor taught me. A complete waste of money. No faculty advisors whatsoever, at this school all the instructors talk to each other about everything a student says or does;even adding to things on occassion. They act like a bunch of sub-contractors always trying to undercut the other guy! Students have no voice or recourse, and the federal government is allowing this to continue. If we could have a class action suit I would gladly sign right up.. When will someone put a stop to ecpi? Who do I have to invoke to see some change?
ECPI University Reviews & Complaints
I am sooo glad I decided not to attend ecpi (raleigh campus). I went & took the entrance exam. I was interested in taking the practical nursing program. After passing the 1st test, I was told that i”d have to take the math & reading portion of the teas exam. The recruiter email me some links (supposed to be study guides) which were no help at all. These guides had the questions/equations & the answers, but did not show how one would get these answers. I passed the reading & was 3 points short of passing the math. I was told that I could retest for $25 and had to purchase the teas study guide from them for $40. Meanwhile, this recruiter continuously tells me that I could take their medical assisting class which didn”t require high scores. After that & hearing over & over from the recruiter, “this is where the rubber meets the road” – referring to whether or not I was serious about obtaining a new career & enrolling at ecpi, I had no interest in fooling with this place. If I were initially interested in taking medical assisting, I could have went to wake tech. My pell grant application was already approved and covered the amount wt charged. My guess is because price was never mentioned (except for the $200 application fee for the pratical nursing program) or couldn”t be found on ecpi”s website, I would have ended up having to get a loan or two. I figured if I had to do that, I may as well go to a 4 year or a community college. After reading the complaints about this place, I consider myself lucky & caught on to these characters early on. I”m especially thankful for the review from the director stating the cost of the pn program. Now I know why the amount was never mentioned…
ECPI University Reviews & Complaints
I attended ECPI for medical administration, I drove 1 hour, one way, 4 days a week to find that some of the classes were sometimes running late or rescheduled due to teachers quitting at random for unknown reasons. The teachers who replaced them were deficient in the medical field and unhelpful. Since I received no financial assistance to help pay a tuition fee of $75.00 per month I had to find a job which forced me to miss a few days of class. I was very surprised to find a postcard in the mail informing me that if I missed anymore days I would possibly have to take the class again! The staff is unprofessional and not qualified to equip students with the knowledge it takes to work in the medical industry. Organization is something that you will not find here. As far as financially, I owe $10, 000.00 for attending 5 1/2 months of school and have absolutely nothing to show for it. I saw none of the student loan money and went farther into debt by only working part time and driving so far. I strongly urge anyone thinking about attending this school to try a community college or university. Financially it makes since not to attend ECPI, people I know who did graduate were not satisfied with the job placement and the diploma you will receive is worthless. The worst part is none of the credits I received can be transferred. And reasonably so. Don”t make the same mistake I did.
ECPI University Reviews & Complaints
I began attending classes with ecpi in march of 2008. My financial advisor was melanie bacon, who sent me an award letter with my grants, fafsa, and student loan information. She assured me that I was good to go, because I was very hesitant about attending the program due to the expense. I asked her several questions to make sure my award letter meant that my tuition would be covered, and she insisted that I was good to go. A few weeks went by, and melanie contacted me to let me know that there was an issue with my household form regarding the status of my niece, who was listed as someone I supported that lived in the household. Because, my niece”s mother had claimed her on her taxes the previous year, I was advised to provide a reason for this. I asked melanie if we could just take my niece off of the household form and just proceed with the process. At that time, I filled out the household form again and emailed it back to her without my niece being listed. We moved forward, and I then started my classes. Two months later I received an email from melanie stating the there was an issue again with the household paper and that she had not sent them the new form that I emailed to her, so they had not been paid for any of my books or classes do the financial aid process not being processed. I had filled out all of the papers she requested in a timely fashion, emailed them back to her, and corresponded with her and heather savage frequently to make sure there were no discrepensies with my paperwork. They both affirmed before I started classes that I was good to go. I advised melanie after sending me the email, stating my aid had not gone through, that I no longer wanted to attend ecpi, because I entered into a contract with them assuming my aid had gone through and my classes were covered. I had even informed heather that I had just given birth to twins and was unemployed, therefore I was chosing to go back to college to further my education, so I could get into a career. Well I didn”t hear from melanie again once I advised her that I wanted to withdraw from the program. Then, in the middle of october, I received a bill for $4, 300 due in full by november 1st. By this time, I had already been enrolled in a new college where my fafsa went through with no problems. I contacted chris lapicki and explained the situation to him. He then got together with other faculty at the school, and told me due to the circumstances of the events, they would not charge me the 4300, but only 1, 200. I told him I should not have to be responsible for any of the bill and that I didn”t have 1200. He told me that was pretty much my only option. And the 1200 he said was to pay for orientation. How could orientation be 1200, and how can they charge me anything, when it was an error on their part?
ECPI University Reviews & Complaints
I had completed all of my course work and worked really hard and to go on extern you have to have a class called 238 and its a prep class and a check off all in one, bad thing was I got “b”s” on all the check and got a 76 on the phelobmoty part 1 and 2 and the teacher told me she didnt think I was profient in my skills that I needed to take the class over which it states that a 76 is a c and it is passing and they are failing me because of 4 points and making me take the class over how can I resolve this issue? I graduate tomorrow and I have nothing to show for it, if one teacher doesnt have confidence in my skill how can I feel good about being a medical assisant?
ECPI University Reviews & Complaints
I have been attending this school since February 2018 . My first encounter was a death in my family whereas, the DON came out of her mouth and asked me would my name be in the obituary and if not it would not be an excused absence. My second encounter with her was when I passed a ati and she still failed me in the class and forced me to retake the same ati 5 times when i has already passed it once . My third and current encounter, she voiced to an instructor that I went over her head and that she had a trick for me . She is now holding me back from going into my last class in which I”m suppose to graduate in 5 weeks . Meanwhile she let a student miss 2 clinicals and passed him, she let another student do extra credit and allowed my entire class a ati retake except for myself . So she is basically forcing me to sit out until another seat in the class is available.
ECPI University Reviews & Complaints
I have been recently been informed by a student that they were given the opportunity to retake final exams worth 20% of the final grade at home to ensure that they pass. Opportunities are still being given to select students and it is unfair. Please consider looking into how students like Reagan Jennings was allowed to take test from home from the start of the LPN program at ecpi. I just want a fair chance.
ECPI University Reviews & Complaints
I used to be an electronics teacher at ecpi.in a nutshell, ecpi is a fraud. Any student with a social security number is let in. Each class is 5 hours long. Students cannot concentrate that long. Students are not learning any skills and are given passing grades to keep going. Most students know it’s a fraud but keep attending for free on federal grants and easy grades, by showing up once in a while. Most ecpi graduate don’t have any chance of landing a job, unless they already have skills from military or someplace else.