CDI now everest college newmarket is a scam

Everest college suckssssssssss. They are only after your money. So dont even think of enrolling in this college. I finished a carrer in this school but I dont even have a self confidence to apply for the carrer I finished because I havent really learn something that helpED me boast my self confidence.

Imagine I travel for 45 minutes just to take a 3 minutes lEcture from the teacher and he even told me that he needs to rush because he has other students to attend to. I am paying the same amount of money as those other students does but I am being treated this way. Can you imagine 5 modules with one teacher., teaching in one time!!!!!!!!!.....this is the situation here in North York campus evening business class. So to prevent you from becoming a victim of this school better not register in this so called EVEREST COLLEGE.......NO NO NO NO NOT A GOOD SCHOOL TO GO TO.......YOUr MONEY, EFFORT AND TIME WILL JUST BE WASTED....................

thank you for this info. i called them today to get info on the Network Admin course they offer.
i have an appointment this aftn at the mississauga campus, and after reading all these comments, i am cancelling. i can't believe all the problems.

how can they get away with all this?

my life is too important to take a chance like this, and i want to thank everyone for being so honest and open.

thank you.

What I`m about to say is not meant as an insult to anyone here, but rather pertains to the teaching habits of the colleges in question, that being said, I have to mention the grammar and the spelling being associated with the postings on this board, it is just awful. Most of these posts are almost impossible to read, with the exception of a few and fully illustrates the severity of the teaching personnel at these schools.Perhaps I am to assume that most people here are unlikely to be accepted into a proper community college (no offence to anyone, just being real) and therefore these private colleges swoop in and grab those who have aspirations of studying for a career but don`t have the necessary "tools"....Besides, does anyone personally know of anyone who has been turned down by one of these private colleges? the truth is that they take pretty much anyone and they don`t really care if you pass or not once they get their money.

My story is this...I was laid off from the manufacturing industry and I am looking at retraining through the Second Career program, so, in order to do that I have to research 2 private schools and 1 community college to see which one would better support my endevours, well first up was everest college, at first I was impressed with how quick they were to contact me and how eager they were to help me out and get me on my path to a new career....all good stuff so far.....then, I went down to the college to talk and take a tour.....well the first thing that made me take notice was that the admissions person was late, this made me take notice, but wasn`t a big deal. The second thing that caught my attention was when the female admissions officer finally showed up she greeted me and shook my hand, took me to her office and was talking about "hard ons"...this is not a word of a lie!!. Normally I would like it when a pretty woman talks about "hard ons" but this is neither proper nor professional in this kind of a setting.
Her charming helpful demeanor changed when I informed her that I wasn`t ready to commit to everest. Her tone indicated to me that I was wasting her time....that moment I decided Everest was not for me....and from reading the other posts on this page it appears that I made the right choice.

through the website i enquired about a particular course. they called me back and i talked to Wendy at mississauga campus on central pkwy. she said regarding what i m interested in and what are the timings n schedule of that particular course n other options we need to have appointment as it cannot be discussed over the phone( i wonder why ). she booked an appointment as on first wknd she was not in so she booked it for 2nd wknd so on May 23 i had an appointment with Wendy as she herself set it up. i was there at 12:00 noon the receptionist told me Wendy is on her way she might be coming in late so wait. i kept waiting then she thinks as the kids need a toy so she handed over to me IPOD n ask me to learn about everest college. i did read about it before stepping in thats common sense. then they were talking in b/w that wendy might not come in so if she will not come in the receptionist can talk to me. 20 minutes past 12:00 noon i told the receptionist i m not interested to study in any such place n she said okay n i left. no apology not a single word. they just wasted my time. why Wendy did not call them n let them know she'll have no plans to come. why they did not called me n change the appointment timings. why they fool themselves by handing recorded IPOD videos when they cannot prove themselves professionals. its crap place. the receptionist act like high school kid. not an educated professional environment.

what about the PSW courses at Everest, and has anyone ever been to the Downtown Hamilton campus?

everest college is a scam and we are so screwed...this is a warning.
i feel sorry for myself that i am going to everest college here in toronto
i was laid off a few months ago, and wanted to find a way to further my education
and hopefully get a better job, since i was too late to register to a semestered school i opted for a career college, back then i thougnt i had to start something before my employment insurance ran out
so i looked around got into a couple of interviews and the presentation made at everest looked too good to be true ..and it was ...damn it was all a scam:
for 16,000+ loan (network administration program) that i now i have to pay back
1.i got a book list for all the courses/modules that i have to take.
2.no instructor to guide you to do the work.
3.can't ask questions in doing final projects..(i was told once "it is your project")
now you have students teaching other students what to do on their projects and hopefully you get it right.
besides the know-everything teachers, we have a school president who want to talk about himself...
he told us how he excelled in this and that..how he did this and that..well he didnt go to everest.
and if we talked about our problems with whats going on in the school...he talked about himself..again.
4.certification vouchers.. i have been waiting for 4 months now for 1 voucher, and i am almost done..
the school diploma is nothing without the industry certification, other students who graduated are still waiting..
anyway i am reading books on my own, i am doing projects on my own, getting lectures from youtube
i am behind in my so called self paced studies??? ...when i am trying to do everything on my own???
well i admit i was scammed..and too embarrassed to tell my friends about it.. i tell them im ok
i am an old man who's prospect for good employment has passed but i am trying everything i can
but this could be the last straw that breaks this old man's back..this time i think im really screwed.
everest college took advantage of my ignorance..i have to pay for that
but what goes around comes around ...when that day comes i hope they pay big time

cati is the worst private college ever, thanks for wasting my time and money.

Well im a student at everest and i dont know that Newmarket is screwed up cause my school is not like that, all my teachers are on time everyone is nice and everything so i dont know what you guys are saying here.. the hands on training i love it...i dont know what school you went too but whatever, i think mine is one of the best ones and i been there for 3 months and the teachers are on time at myschool and they are very nice they help you alot , i got my friends there and everythng and they love it so i disagree with that sorry i really do

I've attended Everest since August and I am going to graduate in May. I attend the Yonge and Eglinton campus for the paralegal program and have a laundry list of complaints against the school and staff. Everyone is unprofessional, unfriendly, and never answer questions.
My first month in the school many of our school's staff were fired, walked out with their belongings and the students were never given an explanation as to why. When we'd ask, they would answer "They have moved onto bigger and better things"
The competence of the staff: I have a former lawyer, a paralegal and a former paralegal. They do still all have their degree's but are they capable of teaching students about the law? They all seem to lack experience dealing with teaching, not necessarily about the law. The material they teach is often boring, and they seem to be unable to make the course material exciting or to keep me awake. I'm not a hard person to entertain and I know the law is often droll but they just seem to be unable to really focus on what we need to graduate properly.
The rules: My campus recently started coming down very hard on students about the rules. I am unable to bring my own lap top to school and the reasons are unclear as to why. Other than "We provide you with computers" I'd like to be able to use my own computer to do my assignments or take my notes with that won't be erased the following day. No cell phones in class, I understand that rule but my instructor today told us that we can be suspended from school, or kicked out due to cell phone use as well as drinking anything in class. Our class room is boiling hot and forcing students to drink outside in the foyer rather than inside of the class room seems more like a waste of time and money. I paid to come to school to be taught and I can't even drink a juice box or a cup of coffee inside my class. I'm an adult and I can drink my water, juice and coffee without spilling it or needing a sippy cup. My teacher also claimed today they can take our cell phones away for a month if we don't comply with the rules. I highly doubt that.

No questions are answered, we're forced to drink outside the class room and our cell phones can be taken away? I'm unable to use my own computer for classes. This all just seems like excuses and excuses.
I'm bringing my complaints to my director of education.

I couldn't agree more that TRIOS COLLEGE sucks. Unfortunately I can speak from experience and a waste of hard earned $14,000 in fees.

Although CDI/ Everestt gets a lot of bad press - and deserves to - there are so many other private colleges that are smaller businessess, so they fly under the radar.

Anybody who tells you in today's economy that 95% of graduates find well paying jobs in their field are full of $@&$# - BEWARE of All Private Colleges or at the very least TRIOS COLLEGE. This may be the best piece of free advice you will ever get before you find yourself saying, " If only I had known".

Grads from these 6 month/ 1 year fly-by-night career skoolz are ruining the chances from students who go to REAL schools from getting a job! They are flooding the market with bogus credentials and are slipping through the cracks. What I mean is that those who go to 4-6 year, brick and mortar schools are the real-deal and all of these private 6 -one month private schools are a joke! How do I know?! I graduated from one of these jokester schools! High-school level material at best! Fight back against these places as they are a parasite.....they never helped me and only ripped me off completely! I tried, they didn't! Look elsewhere! get high school credits, whatever....avoid private kolleges at ALL costs! Heed my warning or perish!

NOT REAL UNIVERSITIES OR COLLEGES! NOT REAL=FAKE=NOT LEGIT=AVOID!!!!!!

Wow,

Sounds like Everest is an Ontario wide scam and is systematically frauding students and the Ontario Government by being an OSAP drain to the economy. I am preparing to sue the Eglinton Campus.


I approached Everest (CDI) in 2007 with the idea that I wanted to work independantly and find a course that would allow me my own business. After a meeting with the rep, I was interested in Massage Therapy and was looking to proceed. I asked about attendance and if there was a way to work around it. They said that due to OSAP I would not be able to miss more than two days in a row ever.

With that I decided not to continue but wait for a better time. Almost a year later I received a call for a follow up. I went in and found that Massage Therapy had been discontinued at my campus. I was then guided into the Business Admin program. The difference this time was there was a solution to my potential attendance issue. If I could pay on my own than the attendace rules (based on OSAP) would not apply. I was encouraged to proceed in this manner and was successful in obtaining a line of credit from my bank. The college knew that I intended to work full time and balance school or I would not proceed. I go the "Yes this is ok" from the educational director at the time and started the business program. At this time I changed positions at work to a shift that was more accomodating (however 3 dollars less an hour). I continued with this for about 6 weeks with attending about 3/5 days a week. My average was good and I was maintaing my course work. I became frustrated with the prospects of learning more about the curriculum and realized my goal of independant business would be realized appropriately with Systems Analyst and Design. I went and spoke with the educational director about my attendance and desire to change courses. I was enrolled in the SAD program.....


At this point Everest knew my attendace patterns and academic level...
They knew I would not be attending more than 3 days a week....
The SAD is a "SELF GUIDED" course "NO TEACHING", "NO LECTURES"
an instructor was available if you didnt understand something.
They still agreed to enroll me, in fact, it was not even an issue and the fact that I was not missing valuable course content seemed to make the fit all the better. I was encouraged and told that the course is the most challenging and that student rarely finish on time and the college will "work with you" to ensure that you succeed. That was mid Feb 08.....
I continued this routine maintaining a 94~% average for all work handed in.

Half way through the year there was a huge staff change and the upper management all left. Two positions (the two that make the decisions) were consolidated into one.

Feb 09--Educational Director Andrew Campbell invites me for a progress meeting and says finally that I have 1 month to complete all outstanding course work and my last day is Mar 6 (DUE TO ATTENDANCE!!). With about half the program to complete, I ask about the ideas presented to me at the time of enrollment ...IE my Line of credit not marked on attendance but my grades and progress, that students can stay until they finsih in the program, alternate arrangements.

He outright dismissed anything and gave a "we'll see".
On the day I was to meet March 6th he blew off the appointment to make me come in the next day just to tell me there is nothing and the conversation ended with him standing at his office door pointing to the hall and saying "I'm finished here"

This was after I asked for his bosses number, to which he did not give me and said I would have to find on my own. I was free to re enroll at any time however.
A guy that started in the school the same time I started business (6 weeks before I was in SAD) was given the same end date as me.

THERE ARE NO CHECKS AND BALANCES TO PROTECT YOU!!!
Calling the VP Martha the following week and leaving several messages, I am still waiting for an acknowledgement and "work with"


THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO RE-EVALUATE
WHY ARE PEOPLE OF ONTARIO giving grant money to a school that is not even considered ONTARIO ACCREDITED????

Unfortunately, I found out too late and most of my education has come in the form of real world scams and why I should have taken paralegal.

Ooopps - didn't finish my previous comments....

Everything that has been said about CDI/ Everest College APPLIES to TRIOS COLLEGE. I attended the Toronto Campus - and could not believe the lack of professionalism of all staff including the instructors and director. Campus directors changed three times during my one year program. Career Services is useless - and they dump you like a hot potatoe.

Never have I expereinced the quality of teaching and quality of person to be so low as in this private college. I have attended different universities - so I know the difference between qualified capable instructors and a bunch of incompetent and unprofessional educators.

It is run like a business - except that they forget that good business practice encourages past customers to say positive things and send referrals their way. Even the business thugs who run this college don't know the first thing about growing a business - they just prey on vulnerable individuals who are at some low point in their lives.

Having their name on my resume draws a bunch of blank faces when someone asks me where I went to school. Prospective employers certainly aren't impressed.

What a waste of $14,000 dollars to be offered a starting salary of $11/hr.

BUYER BEWARE!!

Thanks to all who have posted your comments. I WISH I had found these before I signed up and attended TRIOS BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY HEALTHCARE COLLEGE in Toronto. WHAT A SCAM!!

Everest College is the biggest scam ever! I am going to the media about them, and suing them as well. I wasn't even in school for 3 weeks and they are charging me $770! I requested a break down for the amount didn't receive that, and instead they sent me a collection letter. They only seek out vulnerable people who feel that they have no way out. RUN RUN away from this school!

I HATE HATE HATE their sucky tv ads. They're on ALL DAMN DAY EVERY DAY EVERY BREAK!!!!!

cdi colledge sucks big time,
we took nursing assistant, the teachers never show up
and are either to lazy to teach properly, or too mean and shouldnt be in the business, if you try to complain, they shrug it off assuming its the students and not the teacher, well 5 out of seven signed a complaint paper, we owe $30.000 and its true once youve payed in full they act so differently towards you.
one teacher got fired, and the other one fails people who are good, if she doesnt like their face, and youre stuck with that loan
and they could care less, i would recommend anyone thinking about cdi to certainly think again. if anyone in canada or quebec wants to do a civil lawsuit you could contact me hp4kate@yahoo.ca

HAHAHAHAHA! Private school(20 marks off), For profit(20 marks off), bogus accreditation(20 marks off),basic level courses and materials(20 marks off),no job found after 5 years of graduating(20 marks off), lied to me and other students(20 marks off)..that a total score of -20 for CDI!!!!!

I am a "grad" of CDI aka Everest college and the "modules" are a complete stinking joke. The teachers I had were, well, strange. Thats the only way to put it. Many of them former grads of CDI itself. Its NOT accredited properly and its a private BUSINESS. If I would've known that going to anything private was bad I wouldn't have. But they got me at the right time. Down on my luck, bad job, no where to turn and whammo, I enrolled. The director started out by telling us of jobs we could expect to get once we graduated. She actually mentioned a place up in Elliott lake where we would manage mine workers or something, for 6 months a year, for 60,000 dollars(a place that they had connections to supposedly, they just wanted CDI grads?!It was complete BS!). after hearing that, I was in. But the courses were SOOOO lame, grade 11 high school stuff at best. But, oh yeah, I forgot, "employers were always coming here looking for grads", and " we gotta act professional when they show up"...no "employer" EVER came to that dump. Having been a student at a university for two years the content of CDI was so lame and abysmal, words cant describe it. How are you supposed to get a career with sub-par skills and LOW-LEVEL curriculum. I was useless to the marketplace. I applied to 350 different places and I received not a single call. In my area of "study" that is. Sure I got offers to work at retail places and fast food joints but nothing related to what I took, NOTHING. People were dropping out left and right as they could smell a stinker. Unfortunately I gave the place the benefit of the doubt and got burned. When the courses were over they told me I hadn't completed a certain module needed to graduate(some stupid resume class that I DID complete) after arguing with them they finally gave me that illustrious piece of paper so that I could wipe my butt with it. I asked the director about the contact info for the "Elliot lake mining" job...and she went blank. Had no clue what I was talking about. Yeah! They also have a bogus hiring rate number they use in ads and I think they just recently got in trouble for making the stats up. Taking anyone of their grads who got ANY job(fast food, retail, janitor) and using that to say 96% OF OUR GRADS GET HIRED AFTER GRADUATION. Its all sneaky, bull crap. The guy who they hired who was supposed to find us jobs never did. I think ONE(read:only) job they found was 2 days a week for 11 dollars an hour as a secretary, for some little local company(awesome business job!). It was expensive both monetarily and time wise. I lost out big time and took a huge blow to my ego. I felt like a fool and was embarrassed having been there. To top it off,ironically, the big graduation ceremony was held at the local University(they rented a conference hall), many of us didn't attend of course. Its like a pre-school graduation ceremony for adults held at a proper institution where we should have been in the first place,lol. The lessons Ive learned are this. If the school advertises on tv, has a 1-800 number to call, is a PRIVATE institution, offers the ability to complete programs in less than half the time of a regular school, and is located on the third floor of a scummy building, its safe to say you'll never find a job when you leave. CASE CLOSED! Just type in CDI sucks on your browser and watch how much stuff you find, that says enough, word of mouth....avoid, cdi, devry , phoenix etc, if its private its a dead end......

I agree with everyone on here...I went to the sudbury CDI College and my teacher was a complete idiot, when it came to most things, i was taking them to court but had to move out of town and couldnt continue, now EI is trying to get their money back from me...My teacher gave me wrong marks on my last project to make himself look good, i cried to the directers there many times but i felt i was wasting my time, and i put all my time and efort in that program, which was PAWD, i was very disappointed and hurt it felt like i was misinformed about everything....email is selmakelly1@hotmail.com

I suggest everyone stay away from Private Colleges and go to a Public one. I went to CBSTraining in Mississauga to upgrade my skills that I attained from a Public College, and the experience was horrible.

CSBTraining, also known as Canadian Business College and Canadian Business School wants your money but is very slow to deliever on anything.

First of all, this is a correspondance type school where you are not taught, but sit at a computer and are given binders with pages to read. You write a test on these readings, then move on to read the next module. Your final mark includes 40% attendance, so no one can fail. (Wouldn't that be great in University?!)

The Director of the school, an annoying, high pitched little-person treats the school as her social club. She is constantly farting around doing very little work. When she does work, she is on the phone/speaker phone and you hear every single word of her conversation as you are trying to read the material. (She had the audacity to tell "students" to turn their cell phones off when she is the biggest nuisance there.)

At lunch time, the staff go into the Director's office and blare music for an hour. Her office is next to the "classroom", thus the music would resonate throughout the classroom. She would continue to blare the music after many complaints from students.
(Though she would turn it down everytime the school phone rang, guess she didn't want potential students to know it's her party pad.)

When you finish a module, you'd have to wait up to two weeks for the next set of study binders to come in. I guess they hope that you will drop the course and they will keep the tuition and book fees. (There is a drop out fee.)

CDI is a joke, but so is CBSTraining. I suspect all these private "colleges" are. They are a business that wants your $$$, but don't want to deliver what they promised.

I could go on and on...

But please; go to a Public College or University and stay away from these so called "colleges." Their diplomas are worth NOTHING when you are looking for a job. By the way... CBSTraining offers no assistance in finding a job, though they have a bulletin board with job adverts that you can refer to. There was nothing added to this bulletin board the whole time I was there.

There really should be some sort of government inquiry as to how these places are allowed to exist. You will pay at least $10,000 to sit there and read.

And what's with their excessive tv advertising. During the day on some channels, like the one the talk shows are on, they advertise during every commercial break Monday-Friday, sometimes multiple times in the same break. And most with that stupid homey in the crooked baseball cap. What a fraud!

And why are there CDI ads here in Seattle? Helllllloooooooooo!!! Seattle is not in Canada. Noone in Seattle is going to Canada for your stupid school, especially since Seattle has your stupid Everest College right here for us to get ripped off on.

I just wanted to thank everyone who wrote thier input on this website about Everest Colleget. After graduating from University I've been a bit down on my luck. Work has been hard to find and I didn't know what to get into. After seeing commercials for Everest about every 2 seconds on TV (perhaps feeling a bit brainwashed) i decided to go online and ask them to send me a brochure. Well they didn't do that. They called, and they called me a lot. About 5 times a day (I was out working, so my poor mom was stuck talking to them). I remember applying to College and University right after high school. and beleive me, they never put that much effort to get in contact with me. So I was a little skeptical. Anyways they finally got ahold of me on a Saturday morning, my only time to sleep in. Feeling a little harassed, I for some reason decided to take a look at this Everest School. To say the least, I was less then impressed at first. The campus was on the 4th floor of some office building. But hey, everyone was so polite to me. So diffirent from what I went through in University. Everyone there seemed to just want to help me. It was thier mission in life so it would seem. The process took five hours. The man who talked to me was really trying to sell the school. It was so awesome and great he said. I had to sign up immedietley. Classes had begun yesterday and the sooner I started my "training" the sooner I would be out there making a career. He spat at the word "job". "We do no use that word here" he said. "No here its ALL about YOU! And what we can do for you. And how we can help you find that awesome CAREER." It all seemed so wonderful, so I said "In my expereince if its too good to be true it is". So he spent a few hours trying to convince me otherwise. And above all, I had to, absolutley had to sign up immedietley, or else I would miss out. I said I wanted to sign up in september. he said by then Classes might be full, classes after all get filled up fast. But if that's true, and classes already started like he claimed, then why was there still enough room for me to sign up immedietley. I didn't ask, he was busy talking over me. So feeling absolutley exhusted at a point, I made my way to the financial assistance office where they would help me with finances. The course by the way costs around $12,000. But after some number crunching on the calculator I was shown that I shouldn't even worry about that, I would be making so much money in my new career 12 thousand would be nothing for me. I was told 96% of students get hired right away (there was a wall with photos of students who found work, not really enough I thought to constitute the 96%, but who was I to say) I was told the other 4% got pregnant or moved to another country, so there were legitamate reasons for work not being found. So after five hours, feeling thirsty and hungry, I was at the financial office signing something. I think... I have a bad memory. But I didn't start filling out an OSAP application like they insisted. Something was telling me "this place is bad" a student came up to the secratary saying she was looking for a teacher who never came to class. It all made me feel uncomfortable. After reading more about the college when I came home, I noticed they have a lot of rules. Attendance is taken seriously, if 5 classes are missed you're gone! wow a little harsh. I now wish to go back to all those people I saw in the lobby, who looked like they were down on thier luck and desperate to find work. Some had kids, and were obviously poor. I am so thankful to those of you who shared thier stories. and I am so sorry that anyone had to be betrayed in such a horrible way. But for all its worth, all of you have saved me a lot of time money and heartache, and probably others out there too. Thank you a million times over.

Iam a student at C.A.T.I. And i would have to agree that Private Colleges are a bunch of crap. the most important thing stressed is ATTENDANCE this is because like someone else said is if you dont show up or the attendance dont look good then they loose their contracts with HRDC and Welfare and WSIB as this is mostly where these people are from. the instructors are pretty much there just for the money . and just when you think things were bad enough the previous owner Paul Fisher sells the school to some guy from out west that has 6 other schools as just another investment. I paid my course out of my own money and paid in full. which was a big mistake as their is others that arent completely paid and that is where the favortism is.I also thought that i would be enrolled as an apprentice for mechanic as Conestoga College does this when you start their course. what a freakin wast of 12,500 to go to a school which is over rated as it really sucks ass.

Hey, not sure if anyone uses this board anymore but about 3 and a half hours ago i was kicked out of the Law Enforcement Program of Everest College Newmaket. I'm looking for anyone with problems regarding Admin at your Everest Schools, Attendance practices, or general bad experiences. Personally I was removed from the course due to "Attendance Issues", this is because the admin is unable to keep a proper attendance log, or follow through with their own "dont let that stop you from coming to school" pre-enrollment peptalks. If anyone has some issues they would like to share, including what they were able to do about it, they ould be greatly appreciated (the more e-mails I get in my inbox the more I have to go to bat with). My meeting with the regional director, dean of the college, attendance officer, and my instructor(who is actually on my side in this and went to the dean even before i could, *luck*)and lawyer is on Thursday September 4th. So please send them before then ;) Thanks very much and good luck with your individual situations.
Viral_Kill@hotmail.com

note about ATTENDANCE:

The reason why your ATTENDANCE is an important issue is beause if HRDC is paying for your course, and then you don't show up--- The School can LOSE its right to enroll students receiving UI Benefits.

A big part of their profit comes from students getting their courses paid for by Service Canada; if you don't show up... then they won't get paid!

It is more of a UI rule than that of the "college."

Believe me, it's not because the school is altruistic and concerned about you, they are more concerned about their ability to milk the gravy train (government programs) via you!

These private colleges are a SCAM... avoid them!

I agree dont go to private college. I am a student at C.A.T.I. (canadian automotive and trucking institude) Cambridge. It is the same as the other private colleges. the biggest thing to the teachers is that you show up ,like someone else just said if people dont attend the classes they risk losing the money from HRDC and welfare and WSIB. at our school it is so bad that the teachers actually let you use a cheat sheet which is a 8x11 piece of paper that you can write answers on and bring this to class and use to do your exam. I cant believe i just wasted 12,500 on this course . the school is now even worse now that Paul Fischer the previous owner sold the school to someone out west . which has never seen the school as this is just another investment to him , as he has 6 other schools. for the amount of money that we pay it would be nice is the school would stop being to cheep and get some shop supplys like bead sealer for tires and hand cleaner.I would like to see other peoples experiences of what people have thought of CATI. the other thing about the automotive technology course is they dont start your apprenticeship and no work experince in the field. where as Conestoga College does this. (public) also no prerequist to get into the course . we have people that dont even know how to fill a tire with air or where to put the air in. So Please dont go to CATI

I am a student at Everest College located in Toronto at 117 Eglinton Ave East.
Everest College is just HUNTER OF MONEY!!! They don’t even explain the classes. Since September 2007 that I started Network Administrator program I went there to sit and read my books there is no explanation of anything and if you don’t understand and ask the instructor called Mihal Miu starts talking about his adventures and what he has done in South Caroline(U.S.A) with a truck company. I DIDNT PAY TOO MUCH MONEY TO LISTEN A LOSER LIKE THAT ONE ABOUT HIS LIFE AND AT THE END OF THE CLASS HE NERVER Explained nor answered the student concern.
On October 28th 2008 I have done my 2nd test of Linux Administration and when I have requested a review Mihal Miu said to me to ask department of education because he didn’t care due that he is only replacing Mr. Yash (currently teaching accounting). Mihal Miu also told me that he knew my answer were wrong because he knows linux and he told me to look in Wikipedia for the correct answer. Where I have question myself Am I paying Everest College too much money to get an answer like this one?!
So, I have called Department of Education and I talked to the director Andrew. Andrew told me that he won’t follow up my complaints due that he talked to the teacher Mihal Miu and he said that He has done the test review with me and that he said that the Linux Administration book has wrong information, and how the book is not an Everest book that is my problem . Mihal also told him that the other students answered correctly the question in the test because they didn’t miss too many classes as I did!
Mr. Andrew also added that he has done a review about the teaching skills of Mihal Miu and the night students said that he is very good teacher and friendly person... Of course those kids will say that because that Mihal Miu play internet games with the students in the Computer lab located in the 2nd floor and he tell them jokes and say stupid things as they also do. Andrew the director ended up asking me if I have a personal issue or problem with Mihal Miu where I have answered "What was he talking about, I don’t even know the students names and I will have a personal issue???"
Mr. Andrew as well told me that I missed many classes where I reminded him that due of my hours of work from 12AM to 8:30AM for the last 2 years I have been very sick due of the stress and the lack of sleep, I also added that in my college file is the doctors note where my doctor formally informed about my illness and why I have missed half of may 2008 and almost all June 2008.
The fact is Since the first project I got when Mihal Miu realized that I have some more knowledge and work experience than the other students in the computer lab HE CHANGED THE PROJECT AND HE GAVE ME AN OLD Project with more questions to complete and it had few difficult questions.
Another fact, In the Windows 2003 test I have got 48% in the test so I technically failed and when I have checked the answers in my book I found that one of my question I DID Answer correctly BUT the test Software marked as Wrong, then I approached Mihal Miu to let him know the issue and that I passed the test Mihal said he will check the database to correct my mark on the test… HE NEVER DID IT. One week after Mr. Yash came back to teach us and he told me that my mark on the Windows 2003 test was 48% and that I failed. I ended up showing and explaining again to Mr. Yash that I informed Mihal Miu that my answer in the test was correct and he promised to correct my mark in the data base so at the end Mr Yash went back to the Software Database and check each answer in the Windows 2003 test!!!
Finally I like to add that I have sent an email to Campus Director Marta Kombogiorgas and she didn’t answer.
I have paid my Network Administration program of my RSPs $ 5,000 CAD dollars and since last September 2008 I am monthly paying $ 249 CAD Dollars so I believe how I never caused any issues and I am always paying on time, I never asked for any penny to anyone and I rarely failed in tests.
I deserve a formal review of my test and good tutor to teach me Linux Administration properly due that I have the right to understand Linux administration. This is a tool I never used and it’s very different of Microsoft Operating systems which I have been using for over 13 years.