A Review of Brown Mackie College in North Canton, Ohio
My Experience at Clown College
North Canton, OH 44720
United States of America
Classes started and I was excited. (I'll admit it, I'm a geek, I love school.) My first class was Professional Development; it's the first class everyone takes when they enroll. Right away, I had a wake up call. Every class is one month long, as I stated before. But, as a night student, classes are only held 3 nights a week, 4 hours each night. So there is only a total of 12, 4 hour classes. People weren't showing up! I thought, since I'm paying for this education, I'm going to class. And as my time went on, the more disappointed I was...
After talking to some of my classmates, I gathered that more than half of the students enrolled were welfare mothers. My first reaction was positive. I, myself, am a struggling single mother on public assistance. I thought, this is great, all of these people trying to better their lives for their families. Until check time rolled around, then I realized how naieve I had been. After being in class one hour on Thursday, students were allowed to go to the library to pick up their student loan checks. And most of them picked up their checks and left; they didn't bother returning to class for the remaining 3 hours. The college turned into a ghost town on check days.
After attending Brown Mackie for about 1 year, my feeling about the college turned negative. I felt out of place. Students ran around like they were back in high school. Women were fighting over men. Men were fighting over women. People were skipping class and leaving early. There was always someone cursing on a cell phone in the hallways during class time. Some of the college's teachers were unprofessional also. There was a male teacher living with a younger female student. There was a female teacher that passed a failing student in her class because the student gave her Vicodin. It was like a circus; all it lacked was an enormous tent.
As my time passed on, I not only felt out of place, but I started to feel uncomfortable in class. My last few months at Brown Mackie, I started asking myself why I enrolled in the first place. My GPA was a solid 3.8. But I wasn't working that hard. I wasn't feeling challenged. And my classmates noticed. Some of them started making fun of me. I was the teacher's pet, and the know-it-all. But I was just having fun learning and helping those who weren't getting the information. Some of the women in class were nasty to me. And I asked myself, just what are the qualifications to enroll in this school?
My chemistry teacher approached me and saved my self esteem. He asked me what my goals were. He told me I was too intelligent to be wasting my time at Brown Mackie College. He said my grades were outstanding and he was glad to have someone in class that understands what he's teaching. He told me to continue with my education after Brown Mackie. Oddly enough, he quit his job.
A friend of mine enrolled and I was happy to have a friendly face around. But the stress of Brown Mackie captured him, too. When we would meet after class, neither of us had anything positive to say. He became ill and failed one of his classes. A student in the same class missed as many class sessions as he did, and they passed him. The college decided to save some money and replaced paper with an internet site for students to access class schedules, account information, and so on. My friend had trouble logging on to the site, so he asked the registrar's office for a paper copy of his class schedule. They wouldn't give him one. And without a class schedule, he wasn't able to get his book. He asked for help to log on to the site, and nobody, not even the man responsible for the site, could get him logged on. He dropped out.
Finally, the time came for me to look for an externship site. I was in my last class, and I felt relieved to be finishing up the last two years of Brown Mackie with a degree. I had to complete 120 hours at a pharmacy to graduate. They gave me a list of places I could go with whom they were contracted: a total of 3 hospital and 2 retail pharmacies. Two of the hospitals were too far for me to travel. The other hospital denied me; their schedule was full. One of the retail pharmacies never called me back, no matter how many messages I left with them. And the other retail pharmacy denied having a contract with Brown Mackie for an externship.
The feeling of relief I had suddenly turned into panic. I told my department chair I was having trouble, and all he kept telling me was "keep trying". Keep trying?! I had tried all of the places on the list! By this time, I had already signed a two week extension. I was running out of time. So I turned elsewhere for help: the career services department. She told me the less I worked to find an externship site, the harder she had to work. She had the contacts. She had my resume. But she simply didn't do the work.
So here I sit, two years later, with no degree and in debt. After my extension was up, I was withdrawn. My financial aid would no longer pay for my externship, and I don't have a month's worth of tuition in my bank account to pay for it myself. Had I known I was enrolling into Clown College, I would've worn a bright red foam nose. I probably would've fit in better.
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61 Comments
Post a CommentI enrolled in BMC North Canton almost 2 years ago. I have maintained a 3.9 GPA. The classes are fun, challenging and most of all satifying in gaining the knowlege needed for the field. I am a criminal justice major. I have not witnessed any of the 'fighting' or 'teacher/student' scenarios others have talked about. Sometimes when a person gets a better grade then someone else, jealousy is created and who knows what can come of that. To the girl who wrote the article in 2005, my sister went to BMC at that time and was in phlabotomy. She received an excellent externship site from a long list .. She is now a Pharmacy tech. Maybe you should have called more places than was on the list. I am doing my externship now, at the Stark County Prosecutor's office. I have nothing bad to say about the teachers or my education at BMC. The only bad thing that I can say, is that those who only go for the 'check' are not going to get anywhere in life being dependant on a s
I looked into the ota progtam in Indiana. Just finished my associate degree in Applied Science. Reading these reviews I would really think hard about attending this school. Does anyone have anymore comments. I really appreciate your honesty. I take my education very serious too!
Brown Mackie College-Idaho and obviously every other location as well!
This “so called school†wow! Really..how does our Government allow this type of business to function.? Talk about organized criminals and schemes to give people trying to do good things in their lives false hope and a mouthful of lies while they collect their profit. I should have listened to all the complaints but instead I trusted Brown Mackie College and completed my program only to find out I cannot even sit for my required National Exam that is required in order to do the job. This should so be against the law..Last time I checked most people going to college are going so they can get a legitimate education, diploma, and sit for exams that are REQUIRED in order to do the job. This school leaves a sick feeling in my stomach. Their lack of academic integrity and many consumer violations and forms of fraud they commit and get away with are a devastating reality and true fact. My personal experience along wit
Brown Mackie College-Idaho and obviously every other location as well!
This “so called school†wow! Really..how does our Government allow this type of business to function.? Talk about organized criminals and schemes to give people trying to do good things in their lives false hope and a mouthful of lies while they collect their profit. I should have listened to all the complaints but instead I trusted Brown Mackie College and completed my program only to find out I cannot even sit for my required National Exam that is required in order to do the job. This should so be against the law..Last time I checked most people going to college are going so they can get a legitimate education, diploma, and sit for exams that are REQUIRED in order to do the job. This school leaves a sick feeling in my stomach. Their lack of academic integrity and many consumer violations and forms of fraud they commit and get away with are a devastating reality and true fact. My personal experience along wit
if your thinking about joining a lpn college I encourage you not to go to brown mackie in North canton, Yes classes are based on one subject a month which is and advantage, you would think, but you geting quizzed or tested almost every other day. And your tests is worth so much more than a quizzes. quizzes is only worth 1% test I think is 15% and the final is worth the most so if you flunk the final you flunk that course.they tell you 15 months but it's more like 18 months. plus all nurseing student must pay tuition and pay out of pocket if not they will not accept you in their programe, the cpr class that is taken at the school, I feel that it should have been packeaged in w finacial aid. This programe don't allow you to work because class times always change. Thank god for good parents to pay for my schooling.
If not I would not be going here, I'm thinking about going eles were because their tuition is high for this LPN diploma it;s causeing me 30 grand. other places ch
sorry yall... but having attended a school like ITT.. I can tell you the practice of withdrawing a student for missing two or three classes is NOT a proprietary practice for Brown Mackie... when dealing with long classes done over a short period of time, your chances of catching up after missing those few classes are almost impossible.. so they institute these practices to protect students from failing grads and themselves from the bad stats.. granted a few of you have valid reasons for missing the time... but reguardless if you fail instead of withdraw not only do have to retake the course but you have that failing grade on your record.. if your family situation could change unexpectedly then maybe you should try online college...
I think some people posting on this thread certainly need a reality check. When students enroll in a propiety school they are chooosing to enroll in a non-traditional school because generally, they do not have the skills and / or abilities to be admitted into a traditional college. Career schools make it possible for people who would not ordinarily be admitted into an institution of higher learning to recieve a post-secondary education.
To be honest, anyone with a decent high school education should have the skills necessary to study for and take the Pharmacy Board exam on their own--but the reality is, many people don't.
That's where career schools come in. They help bridge the gap that a very poor education system has created, for those that wish to enter the workforce in a capactity that requires specific knowledge of a certain feild, but not necessarily a college degree.
I can not tell you how many people I know with BA and Master degrees from esteemed colleges that have no j
I was exited returning to school since I could not get a job being I was responsible for my terminally ill mother,which was expressed during my admission interview.I was told credits could transfer(LIE)that if I had to miss class because of my mother that would be ok.The Chair DEAN GRASE(Gone) was told my mother has gotten worse and hospice had me calling family in.His response "You know we have an attendence policy,that was a Thursday she died SUNDAY night,I came to school bitter angry ,and wanted to transfer.I approached his cube and said Thought I let ya know she died last night BUT " I am here!" This was sept 2009, I missesd 2 days not consecutive and 2 more because I was ill, I had college algebra with an instructor who could barely speak English and I had asked for a tutor prior to the classes starting.They dropped me said 9months,they were calling me on Monday wanting to know if I would be returning in Nov? I was so bitter,I said "YOU all dropped me because my mom died,I will co
TheCatisfinallyoutofthebagaboutBrownMackieCollege,withthecurrentcivilandcriminalinvestigationsintothecorrupt,unethical,andimmoralbusinesspracticesoftheparentcompanyEDMC.http://www.tradershuddle.com/2010080663100/Press-Releases/Robbins-Umeda-LLP-Announces-Investigation-of-Education-Management-Corporation.html
I'm curious of all the people having issues with BMC, what program were you in? I'm looking to get into their LPN program in Canton. Any advice? If you have had a bad exp, name names of what teacher, what class. Just saying "that guy that taught the one class i was in" tells everyone nothing. Not to mention you seem like you are fake.