Complaint / Review
Katharine Gibbs School - Piscataway, NJ
Katharine Gibbs School, ripoff

I would like to inform ANY person who may be interested in taking classes at the Katharine Gibbs School to obtain information and then proceed with caution.

I signed up for their new Medical Assistant program, attended for 15 days and I am now responsible to pay a Stafford Loan in the amount of around $800.00 and $1,725.10 to the school.

First of all I gained absolutely NOTHING in those 15 days, as a matter of fact it was the biggest waste of my time.

When you are interested in going to the school, you get all of the attention in the world. There are people constantly calling you or answering your calls. As soon as I decided to drop, I could not get a person to call me back for almost 3 weeks.

They push you and hurry you to sign you up. They do not make you fully aware of their policies. Sure I got this big pamphlet but NOT ONE person made me aware of the print on the back of the enrollment agreement, which just so happen to be signed and shoved into my folder quicker than I could wink.

This is an email response I got when I asked for the amount that I am supposed to pay these people to be reviewed:
Patricia,

I am sorry that circumstances led you to have to withdraw from school and create this problem for you. Unfortunately, when you enrolled you signed an enrollment agreement and the tuition refund policy was described on the back of that document. This situation is much different than going to the store to buy a gallon of milk. You are purchasing an education and financing your future. It is a big investment and again, I regret that it did not work out for you.

I would be more than happy to look at the lab fee that was charged but unfortunately there is not much we can do regarding the tuition charge.

Greg Salter

Oh yeah they charged me a lab fee and all of the classes that I had were lecture. They are also extremely over priced. I am going to be attending a school offering the same degree for a fourth of the cost. And they tried to tell me that the education I would be getting there is not good and I would have trouble finding employment after graduating.

I checked the credentials of the other school, which has been teaching Allied Health programs for over 40 years, and they are just as good as Gibbs and they provide employment assistance upon graduation.

I could go on and on, but bottom line, I feel totally RIPPED OFF!