This report was formed using the “Telcommunications Career” path during my enrollment at atcla.edu and I am in no way affliated with this business/school. As an ex-student, I’ve worked in the Job Placement dept. after graduation which took most my paycheck @ 10.00 USD Hourly to pay back the school ‘s tuition fee [@75 percent per check] and I’ve worked as an assistant teacher aide for 2 months which I was laid off from since that position was a temporary opportunity @ 15.
00 USD Hourly.
Again, they only give you this job due to lack of staff that teaches or even does the job they are hired to do, have knowledge of the courses with professional instruction, and they take from those students 75 percent of their paychecks when you are involved in that type of scam!! You are receiving a few hundred dollars you are taxed on, and basically make what your teachers would minus the full payout!
You are left with almost zilch from your paycheck practically, and still make too much to qualify for state welfare [EBT/GR in California] if you apply! The state welfare told me this school was not accredited before I worked for atcla.edu when I applied for an excused mercy on having to attend their work incentive program [Which they offer to accredited schools], saying I would have to attend that state-sponsored course no matter what or lose my benefits since I did receive such even though I went to school at atcla.edu full time. That alone let me know something was wrong with this institution. I took my paperwork showing I attended full-time and the state of California welfare dept didn’t honor them as accredited!
This school for the record since I’ve worked in the job placement department isn't required to help you gain employment into the telecommunications field if you take that course, it's all objective based off your background check and what you know about the telecom field via experience [You will have to re-train with any company directly since you learn outdated stuff if even that with atcla] *which is not what you are tricked into paying for when you enroll in their program*. I did the cold-calls for post-graduate students to see their work experiences afterwards, over 90 percent didn’t work in the telecommunications field, and almost nobody got anything other than a cabling job which the school’s education didn’t cover!
It's very expensive to enroll, you have 1 month to quit without being forced to pay the tuition fees, and they only offer you incentives like working for the school to pay back the student loans, plus give money back to help pay your tuition for each month you have good attendance + good grades. I would of had perfect attendance but they marked me absent on a day I wasn't even a student after the fact! I got A's on my transcripts but most of the material is very basic!!
The teachers were NOT certified in the courses they're teaching, and only show you the basics of any curriculum you study. I had to actually get study material for the CompTIA A+ certification and figure things out like test taking,etc myself! The administrator even asked me what I did to take the exam,etc [That's a bad sign if you are a student teaching the school staff how to get certifications.] I was the only student to gain my A+ certification out of all the students on campus in my school year and I didn't even get to attend the graduation ceremony since I couldn't afford it due to paying back my student loans, they wouldn't even fund me to go to the graduation ceremony [Which staff said I was the top honor student].
The job placement dept. had 1 person who used a binder of places some software generated to call to see if they do school internships to possible hire. Natalie Marin was that person in charge at that time of that department, and she would show up late alot, or sometimes not at all. She was very unprofessional, and wouldn’t even call me to let me know I wouldn’t be able to work some days! Plus, I ended up doing her job most the time and the leads she did get, she would take off and just go visit while I had to setup the meetings for those type of places! I got the school a great contact via contractor I found while in the streets of LA through Time-Warner Cable, and that lady got the credit for my work establishing that relationship. This school's dept. may have improved from this older-based system of cold-calling businesses, but to be honest, you could learn all this on your own using YouTube, and reading books. Do the calls to places yourself for free. You could go in the real workforce, asking for internships and network as I did for just a small fraction of your time getting yourself a job instead of paying $1000's for an unlicensed amatuer to do all this for you!
As far as telecom goes, they show you how to punch wires into a patch panel and 66-block which is OLD!! They didn't show me anything regarding TDM or SIP or VoIP! I never knew most people were doing these types of telecommunications till AFTER I got an industry job myself. You don't learn about T1 Circuits, how to find a DMARC, or even wire a T1 and setup such on a Cisco Router!!! You don’t learn about how to ID anything in the real telecommunications field, how to wire a DS3, install fiber optics, or even really build out a PBX! You will NOT be learning Wifi or Wireless Technology here either. You definitely won’t learn how to network like someone that’s a CCNA certified tech would, or even Network+ from CompTIA. They had the nerve to call this a telecommunications course. The main course is the last one, and our teacher spent most his time showing Youtube videos and reading us an uncertified cheaply bound paper book they printed at the school which was generic. You could tell they were web-surfing, taking information from wikipedia, and other sites, and using that as their course information!.
Please do not waste your time here! This school if you notice, doesn't have a high ratio of "CompTIA certified students". Think for yourselves, this is a business for gaining gov't loans not education to workforce training! In the end, I got banned off campus for using the computers in a classroom I was allowed to be in applying at jobs posting my resume. They fired all the teachers during my school year, and have laid off dozens more since! The staff members rotate constantly. They boast students have high grades but the literature is very generic with bland material. You won’t be getting a job with Verizon Wireless using this information you learned here. Most students dropped out of my class personally due to the lack of support and poor instructor education.
Save your money and avoid this place at all costs!! They have promoters who target people at the welfare office near Wilshire Blvd. Standing outside the office doors soliciting people to check their school out promising them jobs which is a blantant lie! Some of them haven’t even been students who also provide for this Los Angeles Scam. They know what they are doing and that’s getting people on welfare to attend with hopes of gaining employment who never escape poverty.
Associated Technical College Reviews
To Whom It May Concern,
This report was formed using the “Telcommunications Career” path during my enrollment at atcla.edu and I am in no way affliated with this business/school. As an ex-student, I’ve worked in the Job Placement dept. after graduation which took most my paycheck @ 10.00 USD Hourly to pay back the school ‘s tuition fee [@75 percent per check] and I’ve worked as an assistant teacher aide for 2 months which I was laid off from since that position was a temporary opportunity @ 15.
00 USD Hourly.
Again, they only give you this job due to lack of staff that teaches or even does the job they are hired to do, have knowledge of the courses with professional instruction, and they take from those students 75 percent of their paychecks when you are involved in that type of scam!! You are receiving a few hundred dollars you are taxed on, and basically make what your teachers would minus the full payout!
You are left with almost zilch from your paycheck practically, and still make too much to qualify for state welfare [EBT/GR in California] if you apply! The state welfare told me this school was not accredited before I worked for atcla.edu when I applied for an excused mercy on having to attend their work incentive program [Which they offer to accredited schools], saying I would have to attend that state-sponsored course no matter what or lose my benefits since I did receive such even though I went to school at atcla.edu full time. That alone let me know something was wrong with this institution. I took my paperwork showing I attended full-time and the state of California welfare dept didn’t honor them as accredited!
This school for the record since I’ve worked in the job placement department isn't required to help you gain employment into the telecommunications field if you take that course, it's all objective based off your background check and what you know about the telecom field via experience [You will have to re-train with any company directly since you learn outdated stuff if even that with atcla] *which is not what you are tricked into paying for when you enroll in their program*. I did the cold-calls for post-graduate students to see their work experiences afterwards, over 90 percent didn’t work in the telecommunications field, and almost nobody got anything other than a cabling job which the school’s education didn’t cover!
It's very expensive to enroll, you have 1 month to quit without being forced to pay the tuition fees, and they only offer you incentives like working for the school to pay back the student loans, plus give money back to help pay your tuition for each month you have good attendance + good grades. I would of had perfect attendance but they marked me absent on a day I wasn't even a student after the fact! I got A's on my transcripts but most of the material is very basic!!
The teachers were NOT certified in the courses they're teaching, and only show you the basics of any curriculum you study. I had to actually get study material for the CompTIA A+ certification and figure things out like test taking,etc myself! The administrator even asked me what I did to take the exam,etc [That's a bad sign if you are a student teaching the school staff how to get certifications.] I was the only student to gain my A+ certification out of all the students on campus in my school year and I didn't even get to attend the graduation ceremony since I couldn't afford it due to paying back my student loans, they wouldn't even fund me to go to the graduation ceremony [Which staff said I was the top honor student].
The job placement dept. had 1 person who used a binder of places some software generated to call to see if they do school internships to possible hire. Natalie Marin was that person in charge at that time of that department, and she would show up late alot, or sometimes not at all. She was very unprofessional, and wouldn’t even call me to let me know I wouldn’t be able to work some days! Plus, I ended up doing her job most the time and the leads she did get, she would take off and just go visit while I had to setup the meetings for those type of places! I got the school a great contact via contractor I found while in the streets of LA through Time-Warner Cable, and that lady got the credit for my work establishing that relationship. This school's dept. may have improved from this older-based system of cold-calling businesses, but to be honest, you could learn all this on your own using YouTube, and reading books. Do the calls to places yourself for free. You could go in the real workforce, asking for internships and network as I did for just a small fraction of your time getting yourself a job instead of paying $1000's for an unlicensed amatuer to do all this for you!
As far as telecom goes, they show you how to punch wires into a patch panel and 66-block which is OLD!! They didn't show me anything regarding TDM or SIP or VoIP! I never knew most people were doing these types of telecommunications till AFTER I got an industry job myself. You don't learn about T1 Circuits, how to find a DMARC, or even wire a T1 and setup such on a Cisco Router!!! You don’t learn about how to ID anything in the real telecommunications field, how to wire a DS3, install fiber optics, or even really build out a PBX! You will NOT be learning Wifi or Wireless Technology here either. You definitely won’t learn how to network like someone that’s a CCNA certified tech would, or even Network+ from CompTIA. They had the nerve to call this a telecommunications course. The main course is the last one, and our teacher spent most his time showing Youtube videos and reading us an uncertified cheaply bound paper book they printed at the school which was generic. You could tell they were web-surfing, taking information from wikipedia, and other sites, and using that as their course information!.
Please do not waste your time here! This school if you notice, doesn't have a high ratio of "CompTIA certified students". Think for yourselves, this is a business for gaining gov't loans not education to workforce training! In the end, I got banned off campus for using the computers in a classroom I was allowed to be in applying at jobs posting my resume. They fired all the teachers during my school year, and have laid off dozens more since! The staff members rotate constantly. They boast students have high grades but the literature is very generic with bland material. You won’t be getting a job with Verizon Wireless using this information you learned here. Most students dropped out of my class personally due to the lack of support and poor instructor education.
Save your money and avoid this place at all costs!! They have promoters who target people at the welfare office near Wilshire Blvd. Standing outside the office doors soliciting people to check their school out promising them jobs which is a blantant lie! Some of them haven’t even been students who also provide for this Los Angeles Scam. They know what they are doing and that’s getting people on welfare to attend with hopes of gaining employment who never escape poverty.