Remington College
Reviews and Complaints
This school is very unprofessional, way to expensive, not accredited, they lie to the students and they do NOT back their instructors.
Horrible school, way too expensive!!
- Price of college was way to high
Remington College - Teaching Material Review from Gaston, South Carolina
Remington College - College Accreditation Review from Houston, Texas
I am also having the same situation myself. I applied at the University of Houston and they told me that Remington College was not an Accredited College.
Now I am stuck with a $28,000 debt, but I felt like I got ripped big time.
This is ridiculous and frustrating. They even have it on their website saying that they are a Accreditation.
Remington College - Teacher Review from Saint Andrews, South Carolina
Remington College is by far the worse experience I've ever had. They fire teachers every two to three months.
They do not teach us what is needed to be taught. I'm in my 7th MOD and the one teacher that we had, that actually knew what she was talking about, they fired her the Monday after coming off of break. I've reached my breaking point with Remington College Columbia Campus. They are unprofessional and don't give a dam about the students.
I am highly pissed and feel like I wasted $16,000. By the way, is RC-Columbia Campus accredited or not?
Remington College-CLEVELAND campus DO NOT ATTEND!!!!
Alrighty folks, my apologies as I have been off the grid for a while. I do have an update for you, and please pass this along, as this is a VERY PUBLIC COMPLAINT and any and all sharing is appreciated so as to get the word OUT THERE!!
During this time of sending my complaint letter to everywhere I could think of(with little to no response from anyone), I maintaned contact with a Mr. Mike Lanouette(Dr. perhaps) in regards to asking him as to whether or not the CEO of Remington College had received my complaint. I did actually talk with and voice my concerns with him, and recorded it via my computer webcam.
Also, I did in fact receive my LONG OVERDUE diploma, but as it states on the diploma there is supposed to be an official school seal "here affixed to" and there was none, whereas the official transcripts they sent me HAD THE SEAL. I took photos of these and emailed them to Mr. Lanouette, and there was no result. I also received a letter from Mr. Forrest, the CEO, which I will also place on this update at the end..
The following are emails that were exchanged back and forth..
9/21/12
to Mike
Mr. Lanouette,
I wanted to thank you for finding out that information for me. In all actuality its not a question of whether they are qualified in their field of experience but rather in their teaching methods and prior experiences of such. Since you were able to look up Mrs. Watson's qualifications, please also look up Mrs. Duhaney-Ward. Also please check into there prior "instructor/teaching" roles so as to truly determine whether they should be or should have been instructors at Remington college.
The wait for my official diploma is LONG overdue, I appreciate you finding out when I 'might' get it but only time will tell if it indeed arrives.
Although you had mentioned that the majority of the students and graduates from Remington's Colleges have been happy with their experiences, it is still inexcuseable to have been through what I have, and I cannot express that enough. I know for a fact that the majority of the 9 students that were in my particular class were very dissatisfied with their experience with the Cleveland campus. Some even dropped out and never finished the course of study.
As I had mentioned to you during our phone conversation today, I did received an unofficial diploma and set of transcripts as well as a set of offical transcripts. There was no letter from any representative from Remington's Cleveland campus concerning my formal complaint to them. This is unnerving because it was their incompetence that started all of this.
I would also like to mention that this is not the first letter I have given this campus.
As much as I appreciate your time and information given to me on this matter, I know that nothing will be done to eliminate my 'senseless' accumulation of debt from this institution unless I persue it through legal means. I suppose we will cross that bridge when/if we get there.
Thank you again for your time today.
Regards,
Jessica D. Barczyk
2011 MBC Graduate
9/21/2012
Mike Lanouette wrote:
Thank you for talking with me today. I was able to obtain the two pieces of the information we discussed earlier.First, I reviewed your question regarding Ms. Stacy Watson and did find she did meet the qualification to be an MBC instructor. Second, I talked with the Campus President and he will be expediting your official diploma and it should be send to you within the next two weeks. I will keep you up to date on its progress. If you have any other questions, please feel free to call or email.
Thank you for talking with me today. I was able to obtain the two pieces of the information we discussed earlier.
First, I reviewed your question regarding Ms. Stacy Watson and did find she did meet the qualification to be an MBC instructor. Second, I talked with the Campus President and he will be expediting your official diploma and it should be send to you within the next two weeks. I will keep you up to date on its progress.
If you have any other questions, please feel free to call or email.
From: Jessica Barczyk
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 2:58 PM
To: Mike Lanouette
Subject: Waiting.
Mr. Lanouette,
I have not heard from you nor anyone else in regards to our conversation and formal complaint. I have received no letter from Mr. Forrest, nor a response from you or Cleveland's campus since September 25th, which was a short 2-lined email.
I am not being shown any courtesy from Remington College in regards to this urgent matter. It seems you 'all' are disregarding my poor experience with your facility, as well as my formal complaint. This is once again proving the lack of concern or care for the students and graduates from this 'For Profit' facility.
My patience is running quite thin.
Regards,
Jessica D. Barczyk
10/4/12 2:58PM
Mike Lanouette wrote:
>Mr. Forrest had a death in his family and has been out of the office this week. He told me to let you know he will be sending you a formal response to your letter in the next few days.
From: J. D. Barczyk
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 1:16 PM
To: Mike Lanouette
Subject: Update
Mr. Lanouette,
In reading your email concerning a death in Mr. Forrest"s family, I understand that any correspondence will be delayed.
I do however want to mention that I have yet to receive my official diploma, when you said it would take a couple weeks-it has been a few weeks now, I would like an update.
I also requested information about Mrs. Duhany-Ward's as well as Mrs. Watson's prior teaching experience and have yet to receive any information on either in that regard. I do not understand the constant delay of information that should be readily available to you for me.
I am very unimpressed with the little correspondence I have receieved from you and the lack thereof from Remington's Cleveland campus. I know and understand that life happens, but there are certain responsibilities that people as in your position etc should be taking to rectify this situation.
Regards,
Jessica D. Barczyk
From: Mike Lanouette
10/12/12
It is my understanding that Mr. Forrest sent you a response today by mail.
**then I played the waiting game for what would soon arrive, a SNARKY reply from the CEO of remington***
VERY LAST CORRESPONDANCE(which contained photos of the diploma w/no seal vs the transcripts w/seal):
On Oct 23, 2012, at 6:09 PM, "J. D. Barczyk" wrote:
Dear Sir,
Please forward this to your CEO, Mr. Forrest.
Explain to him, that as the photo of my Remington Diploma clearly states that there should be a "seal of the college... hereto affixed."
There is none.
Please also note that my offical transcripts had such a seal "affixed" to it. (Attached also as a picture)
Please remedy this.
Regards,
J. Barczyk
Mike Lanouette
10/23/12
to me
I will forward your email as you requested
That was the absolute last response/correspondance I had with the corporate offices of Remington College. So I am left with a heavy stock piece of paper with print on it, as well as official and unofficial set of transcripts that will get me absolutely no where. As for the official response from Mr. Forrest, I will have to link it to here because it is quite lengthy.. Thanks for looking
Alrighty folks, my apologies as I have been off the grid for a while. I do have an update for you, and please pass this along, as this is a VERY PUBLIC COMPLAINT and any and all sharing is appreciated so as to get the word OUT THERE!!
During this time of sending my complaint letter to everywhere I could think of(with little to no response from anyone), I maintaned contact with a Mr. Mike Lanouette(Dr. perhaps) in regards to asking him as to whether or not the CEO of Remington College had received my complaint. I did actually talk with and voice my concerns with him, and recorded it via my computer webcam.
Also, I did in fact receive my LONG OVERDUE diploma, but as it states on the diploma there is supposed to be an official school seal "here affixed to" and there was none, whereas the official transcripts they sent me HAD THE SEAL. I took photos of these and emailed them to Mr. Lanouette, and there was no result. I also received a letter from Mr. Forrest, the CEO, which I will also place on this update at the end..
The following are emails that were exchanged back and forth..
9/21/12
to Mike
Mr. Lanouette,
I wanted to thank you for finding out that information for me. In all actuality its not a question of whether they are qualified in their field of experience but rather in their teaching methods and prior experiences of such. Since you were able to look up Mrs. Watson's qualifications, please also look up Mrs. Duhaney-Ward. Also please check into there prior "instructor/teaching" roles so as to truly determine whether they should be or should have been instructors at Remington college.
The wait for my official diploma is LONG overdue, I appreciate you finding out when I 'might' get it but only time will tell if it indeed arrives.
Although you had mentioned that the majority of the students and graduates from Remington's Colleges have been happy with their experiences, it is still inexcuseable to have been through what I have, and I cannot express that enough. I know for a fact that the majority of the 9 students that were in my particular class were very dissatisfied with their experience with the Cleveland campus. Some even dropped out and never finished the course of study.
As I had mentioned to you during our phone conversation today, I did received an unofficial diploma and set of transcripts as well as a set of offical transcripts. There was no letter from any representative from Remington's Cleveland campus concerning my formal complaint to them. This is unnerving because it was their incompetence that started all of this.
I would also like to mention that this is not the first letter I have given this campus.
As much as I appreciate your time and information given to me on this matter, I know that nothing will be done to eliminate my 'senseless' accumulation of debt from this institution unless I persue it through legal means. I suppose we will cross that bridge when/if we get there.
Thank you again for your time today.
Regards,
Jessica D. Barczyk
2011 MBC Graduate
9/21/2012
Mike Lanouette wrote:
Thank you for talking with me today. I was able to obtain the two pieces of the information we discussed earlier.First, I reviewed your question regarding Ms. Stacy Watson and did find she did meet the qualification to be an MBC instructor. Second, I talked with the Campus President and he will be expediting your official diploma and it should be send to you within the next two weeks. I will keep you up to date on its progress. If you have any other questions, please feel free to call or email.
Thank you for talking with me today. I was able to obtain the two pieces of the information we discussed earlier.
First, I reviewed your question regarding Ms. Stacy Watson and did find she did meet the qualification to be an MBC instructor. Second, I talked with the Campus President and he will be expediting your official diploma and it should be send to you within the next two weeks. I will keep you up to date on its progress.
If you have any other questions, please feel free to call or email.
From: Jessica Barczyk
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 2:58 PM
To: Mike Lanouette
Subject: Waiting.
Mr. Lanouette,
I have not heard from you nor anyone else in regards to our conversation and formal complaint. I have received no letter from Mr. Forrest, nor a response from you or Cleveland's campus since September 25th, which was a short 2-lined email.
I am not being shown any courtesy from Remington College in regards to this urgent matter. It seems you 'all' are disregarding my poor experience with your facility, as well as my formal complaint. This is once again proving the lack of concern or care for the students and graduates from this 'For Profit' facility.
My patience is running quite thin.
Regards,
Jessica D. Barczyk
10/4/12 2:58PM
Mike Lanouette wrote:
>Mr. Forrest had a death in his family and has been out of the office this week. He told me to let you know he will be sending you a formal response to your letter in the next few days.
From: J. D. Barczyk
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 1:16 PM
To: Mike Lanouette
Subject: Update
Mr. Lanouette,
In reading your email concerning a death in Mr. Forrest"s family, I understand that any correspondence will be delayed.
I do however want to mention that I have yet to receive my official diploma, when you said it would take a couple weeks-it has been a few weeks now, I would like an update.
I also requested information about Mrs. Duhany-Ward's as well as Mrs. Watson's prior teaching experience and have yet to receive any information on either in that regard. I do not understand the constant delay of information that should be readily available to you for me.
I am very unimpressed with the little correspondence I have receieved from you and the lack thereof from Remington's Cleveland campus. I know and understand that life happens, but there are certain responsibilities that people as in your position etc should be taking to rectify this situation.
Regards,
Jessica D. Barczyk
From: Mike Lanouette
10/12/12
It is my understanding that Mr. Forrest sent you a response today by mail.
**then I played the waiting game for what would soon arrive, a SNARKY reply from the CEO of remington***
VERY LAST CORRESPONDANCE(which contained photos of the diploma w/no seal vs the transcripts w/seal):
On Oct 23, 2012, at 6:09 PM, "J. D. Barczyk" wrote:
Dear Sir,
Please forward this to your CEO, Mr. Forrest.
Explain to him, that as the photo of my Remington Diploma clearly states that there should be a "seal of the college... hereto affixed."
There is none.
Please also note that my offical transcripts had such a seal "affixed" to it. (Attached also as a picture)
Please remedy this.
Regards,
J. Barczyk
Mike Lanouette
10/23/12
to me
I will forward your email as you requested
That was the absolute last response/correspondance I had with the corporate offices of Remington College. So I am left with a heavy stock piece of paper with print on it, as well as official and unofficial set of transcripts that will get me absolutely no where. As for the official response from Mr. Forrest, I will have to link it to here because it is quite lengthy.. Thanks for looking
GHETTO
Total Diploma Mill...DO NOT ATTEND!!
Remington College is a total diploma mill - meaning they only care about enrolling as many people as possible and keeping them there long enough to get their money. Teachers don't care about educating students, they let students take tests as many times as we want so we can get 100's just to show that they are teaching us well.
They tell us that all we have to do is turn in homework and we get an automatic 100...so...how do I know if I am learning anything? A 100 is better than a 70 or whatever, but you aren't getting an education if they do that... it's bulls***. I haven't learned ANYTHING I will need to know to get a job.
It is a total waste of money. I have two friends who attended for two different programs. One of them can't find a job because no one recognizes Remington as a real school and the other is working but can't find anywhere that will pay her more than $9 an hour and she has to pay back $30,000 in loans. So ridiculous.
PLEASE PLEASE go to a community college instead of this awful school. I'm serious...look online and see all the negative reviews. It's not just one or two here and there...there are hundreds of angry people who were lied to about this place. They go out and search for poor kids and tell them they will help them get a better life but they don't care if you succeed or not...as long as they get that money.
It actually makes me really angry that they basically use low income people like myself to meet their numbers they need like they know we are *** and failures and that we will be happy with minimum wage jobs. They take advantage of us and that's total ***. DON'T GIVE THESE LIARS YOUR MONEY!!!!
Please, trust me. I will be dropping out.
Remington College- Accredited School
I'm a 2005 graduate from Dallas Campus, at the time of enrolling I was told this was an accredited school. I recently went to a community college to continue my education and was told none of my courses were accredited.
I not only have an invalid degree (Associates in Computer Networking) but I am also still stuck with a 31,000 tuition. If I could go back and change things I would have gone with a community college from the get go.
If anyone knows of a lawsuit in place for this Facility please contact me. I would like to see things change.
Redneck Remington
Remington College
Remington teacher way over her head!!!!!
Physical therapy class - big joke
REMINGTON COLLEGE - POOR PHYSICAL THERAPY PROGRAM
Physical Therapy Assistant program offered for the first year does not prepare you for State Board Test. Scored high in class, never failed tests and CANNOT pass the Board.
Havent learned half of the stuff they ask on the test. Took it and failed the first time, paid 500.00 to take a second time and many more questions asked which were not part of the schooling. Now owe 20,000.00 and still have not been able to pass the Boards. I know of 2 more friends who are in the same boat and still trying to pass.
VERY DISSAPPOINTED AND DISCOURAGED.
I was warned of the reputation of this school but did not believe. I am NOW A BELIEVER.
Remington College Baton Rouge Campus
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I agree as a former instructor to the unprofessionalism of the administration of the school. Prospective students should certainly consider some other path to learning the skills in the field of their interest. Remington is definitely not that path.
Yes... this is very true i had proof that my grade was falsified.
When i brought it the right persons attention i was told in so many words that its not my business. Wish i never got stuck in this, i should have done my research.
How could Remingin Corporate put someone like Ms LaShundia Brooks in charge of any of their campus. She manages people by intimidation.
She makes sure that all faculty members understand that their jobs are on the line everyday. If she decides she doesn't like a faculty member for any reason. They will be terminated for some bogus reasons.
Time on the job or past and present performance will not matter to Ms. Brooks.