The Everest University Mystery...

Funniest parody yet:









Like every other person watching mid day TV - I see the Everest Commercials all. day. long. I often wonder to myself, what the hell do they do there? So, I went and looked for myself. Everything seemed pretty self-explanatory from their website... 


via info.everestuniversity.edu

Everest University offers AS & BS Diplomas/ Degrees  in these Popular Fields*:

• Accounting
• Business
• Criminal Justice
• Dental Assistant
• Massage Therapy
• Medical Assistant
• Medical Administrative Assistant

• Medical Insurance Billing and Coding
• Nursing
• Paralegal
• Pharmacy Technician
• Trades

14 Campus Locations in Florida.  Online & Master degree programs also available**

They have schools in 23 of our 51 States, including New York and Florida, with programs from Accounting to Surgical Technologist (wtf is that??) Okay, I had to look it up:

During surgery, technologists pass instruments and other sterile supplies to surgeons and surgical assistants. They may hold retractors, cut sutures, and help count sponges, needles, supplies, and instruments. Surgical technologists help prepare, care for, and dispose of specimens taken for laboratory analysis and help apply dressings. Some operate sterilizers, lights, or suction machines and help operate diagnostic equipment.

After an operation, surgical technologists may help transfer patients to the recovery room and clean and restock the operating room.

According to BLS.gov - this career can pay a decent salary, but it is based on your degree level in the field:

Specialty (except psychiatric and substance abuse) hospitals$40,880
Outpatient care centers 39,660
General medical and surgical hospitals 38,640
Offices of physicians 38,520
Offices of dentists 36,380


This all sounds great, right? Then I researched reviews from current students and alumni... 


via Viewpoints.com
“NOT a REGIONALLY Accredited College! ”

Everest College — 

Everest College is NOT a REGIONALLY Accredited college. Do not be fooled! This means that your course units will not transfer or be accepted by any Community College or University. This also means that business will not see your degree as valid. Sorry for folks who wasted their time here. I am a Professor at a CA Community College and I asked our admissions and records if they would accept transfer units from Everest ( a non-regionally accredited college) and they said NO. I also called the number on the Everest College website- The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) is located at 750 First Street, NE, Washington, D.C. 20002; (202) 336-6780. And they said they were NOT Regionally accredited.

That review was from an actual professor - which makes it even scarier. I went to the ACICS site, and Everest was nowhere to be found. I then went to the US Department of Education site and found that Everest IS in fact accredited, but had no specialized accreditation.   

“great school for working moms”

jessybeanzRochester, NY

Everest Institute allows busy working individuals like myself to pursue an education while living their life. I am a busy mother of two and I enjoy the flexibility that going to school at Everest gives me. They helped me with the application and financial aid, I did not a penny out of pocket to go to school. I am taking mostly online classes, however Everest also offers convenient class schedules at their two locations in my city. I am about 2/3 of the way done with my degree and have no complaints about the school whatsoever.

Everest actually got 40% positive reviews on the Guide to Online Schools site, and positive fedback on Viewpoints.com. These were all from current students, though - so I looked up Alumni next...

“POWER IN NUMBERS! THIS SCAM HAS TO END! ”

Emerald7575Vancouver, WA

Case one:
My externship was a real positive experience, a few ladies employed at my extern site told me that "I should go to a real college because you have been scamed honey" Everest is a JOKE.

Case two:
I was told during my first interview that they/HR noticed I had Everest on my resume & that didn't sit well with the hiring manager they looked down on graduates from there. The Doctor also was a really nice guy who came in to talk to me about how a friend of a friends child went there and.... "it was a very suspect/bad college".
Thank you.

Short & Sweet. I'm tired. :(

faith06Cedar Lake, IN

“Everest SUCKS”

a serious student

Pros

FU*K THIS SCHOOL!, there is no positive to this school

Cons

EVERYTHING, everest sucks, career services is unprofessional

Everest College — 

You could not pay me to say any good about this place, I had straight A's through the whole program.  And to say Everest helps those who help themselves is a load of bull.  I have been on my on finding a job because god forbid career services has to do their job.  A certificate or diploma through everest is worthless and will not help you in any way.  As soon as I took everest off of my resume, I started getting interviews and have gotten job offers. For 9 months I had it on my resume and got nothing. Since i took it off I was offered 3 jobs.  What does that tell ya.  I had a number of Dentists ask me why i went there.  So dont be suckered by everest like i was.  The only good thing was my instructor.  Thats the ONLY good thing.  Hell i was a student ambassador and that meant nothing too.

“Everest College made it possible for me to get a degree”

everybodydownSanta Fe, NM

People bash this school pretty hard but my experience has been good and I am finishing my first degree. I may even get another with Everest. I made up for lost time doing four semesters a year. Everest makes it possible to get a degree quickly but it isn't easy. I see the bad comments on here and I can see that the people that make them didn't finish. Although it is expensive, the online courses save me from having to commute and traveling expenses. I am happy and i see other successful people I go to school with and they are happy too.

And the realest ish they ever wrote:

poopiefaceFort Worth, TX

“this school is a scam!”

Pros

FU*K THIS SCHOOL!

Cons

EVERYTHING

Everest College — 

I'm an employee for Everest college and this school is a scam!!! I just got hired on after graduating from college to do the Finance side of the job. I dont even have a degree in business and they told me I could do the finance stuff. Whatever, I dont care. It's a job in the mean time while I look for something else better. 

The school's courses cannot be transfer to anywhere! It's not even consider a real school by the state! This school is for profit! They don't use the term students during staff meetings. They use terms like customers! Because they see each student who comes in there is a customer! who's bringing them money! they dont care about you! They all try to be nice and tell you oh it's all about the student. and we are here for you, whatever...Everyone who works here is only here because it pays and they have no where else to go. I hope the government is going to bring down post secondary schools down because they are making a profit from people in the next couple of years.

This is their system...get you to qualify for grants, which is capped because Federal government put a limit on it. So you are force to take out Federal student loans and on top of that a Genesis loan...which is by the way is how they make a profit. They make about 20 million from each school off of the students who pays for their private loan student loans. They are not state regulated so they dont have state grants! They only have federal grants, which is the Pell grant. They dont have to report numbers to the state if they are not regulated by them. 

The people who are in the medical programs gets a certificate...NOT A DIPLOMA OR A DEGREE...a certificate!!! and those who are in the two years program gets an associate...a degree that cost them 40 grand!!! you can get a certificate at a community college for 10 grand or less. and those credits can transfer to a university! 

Their goal is to get the student excited about school! bring them in for a prelim and then bring them back two days after because they think if they wait after that then the student will change their mind about going to school. They are very pushy! Most schools have cancelled their pharm tech program because of low hiring rates! the students are not finding any jobs after they graduate. 

I would be hesitant to even look at this school. Out of the few alumni I found with positive reviews - most of them had horrible grammar. I wouldn't want them doing anything surgical to me. The best part of the research was the parody commercials. If you know anyone who's attended this school - PLEASE encourage them to leave their feedback here. All this searching still left me confused about Everest. 

Mike Epps on Everest College Guy: