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ITT Technical Institute Financial Aid
Jan 11th
Financial Aid at ITT is a pretty fast process. You fill out a few papers they don’t explain to you and then when you start asking questions you get very brief answers and referred to “Sallie Mae”. Funny thing is when you contact Sallie Mae by email you get no response and when you call on the phone you get a rude customer service representative that tells you your school should have discussed all your questions and concerns with you and then they refer you back to your school. Pretty helpful huh?
Well it gets better! ITT Technical Institute of Sylmar, California put my financial paperwork in the mail last year instead of handing it to me in person. Well, for some reason their mail is delayed because I didn’t get that paperwork until the day my Cal Grant paperwork was supposed to be turned into the State of California. Yes, that’s right I got the papers at my house on the last day to have them in the office of the State of California for a Government Grant.
I went into the office and complained and she said sorry. She had no explanation as to why she waited until the last minute and robbed me of my chance for a Government Grant towards my tuition.
I wrote a letter and sent my paperwork in anyway telling them of the situation and as expected no response and no grant.
So here we are again, time to fill out the paperwork again. I was called out of class to be handed my paperwork this time and as I look at the paperwork they want all of my papers signed and returned with copies of W-2’s and more in 6 calendar days after receipt. Pretty timely huh?
Oh, just a little extra on their mailing punctuality; I got my Christmas card from ITT on January 4th wishing me a Merry Christmas. The date on the card was December 26th and the postmark was December 29th. Isn’t Christmas on December 25th?
ITT Technical Institute-Real Hands on experience
Jan 8th
ITT Technical Institute prides themselves on their “hands on training”. Well, I can’t speak for any of their campuses, but the one I’ve gone to. ITT Techical Institute in Sylmar, California has recently upgraded some of their labs with new equipment. Purchasing new PC’s is a start, but the Local Area Network (LAN) is impeckably slow and there are multiple instances of other hardware failures.
Funny story, 3 weeks ago I was in my Linux class. We were learning how to remote desktop with the command line in Linux. The entire class was having problems getting out to the internet using DHCP. We kept getting error messages and then Linux would reboot us and we’d have to start all over again just to end up in this vicious circle. We informed the teacher and he played with a couple of our PC’s and was just as stumped as the rest of us. Finally, one of the more advanced students said it’s got to be the router that we’re all connected to. He called in the campuses IT guy and they took our external drives to another lab. Sure enough, they were able to get out to the internet and remote admin into other external drives on the network.
Why is it that a student, someone who is paying thousands of $ in tuition knew what the problem was, but our teacher was clueless? Shouldn’t our teacher know these things and show us all how to fix them? Worst thing is because we didn’t figure out the problem until the end of the night most of us we never able to finish out labs completely so we don’t know if we did it right or wrong and because of the accelerated program we’re in…there will be no time to make it up.
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ITT Tech
Dec 14th
I graduated high school in 1997 and held a job that would fund my partying. I had no idea where I wanted to go with my future. Nothing sounded exciting enough. I finally decided to take a few courses of general education at a local college thinking I could knock my general ed out of the way and then figure out a major. I GOT BORED FAST! I got nervous because still after my hard work I didn’t have any clue which direction I wanted to go and thought that I may never know. So I continued working finding a decent paying full time job with benefits. After almost three years there I decided between the two things that interested me. Cooking and computers! Strange combo I know, but they are both very exciting to me. I checked into the culinary school and found out how expensive it was for a short term. In case you thought it was easy, it’s not. The course a 9 month program at a prestige school would run $27,000. That’s just for the Patisserie (baking) program. Sure I would be able to make some unimaginable wedding cakes and desserts, but I wanted the full deal. To continue another 6 months for the chef portion would cost an additional $27,000. Yes, you read right $54,000 for a 13 month program. Seeing as though I was a single mom I did not see anyway that even with financial aid I could afford this. Next stop, technical school…. I checked into a few local colleges and was finding out that I could accomplish the SAME thing through ITT Technical Institute or Devry as any of the jr. colleges or university’s, but in 1/3 of the time. I spoke to a counselor at ITT Tech and found that the prices were still high, but with student loans and financial aid I would probably be able to swing it. So I enrolled. My first quarter seemed pretty normal. I got my text books on time, classes began and ended as I was told before signing my life away, and it seemed like a typical school. I began to enjoy going back to school because I knew where I was going with my schooling and I knew I’d get the degree so many employers want to see now days. Classmates were nice, teachers were nice, and things seemed to flow as I had expected based off of what I was told by the recruiter. Little did I know that would all slowly begin to change…
