Ross Medical Education Center : Ann Arbor
Ross Medical Education Center : Ann Arbor is a established in (unknown). The campus is located in and hosts students with an endowment of .
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What differentiates Ross in Ann Arbor from other schools can be summarized in three words: Fast, Focused, Friendly. All programs offered at Ross are designed to eliminate unnecessary classes, which means getting into the workforce FAST. Most programs can be completed in 9 months or less. During that time the instructional staff if FOCUSED on just one thing: Education. Ross personnel are committed to providing a caring, nurturing environment. Classes are small. Students come first. The school community seems like a family. It’s a FRIENDLY place to be taught new skills and prepare for success in the healthcare field. – Jeffrey R. Pemberton, Creative & Digital Media Strategist
My grandmother had set a 5-29 for me when I was little for more than enough to pay for this school. So I paid everything in full before even starting classes. Fast forward to my last module, where they are switching everyone to online courses. I was told there wouldn’t be any issues, since I had paid everything already, I just would be going on campus once a week instead of four. No big deal, I was about to graduate anyway. After I graduate and start working at my externship, Ross sent me a check for $3,500, to which I brought to the school to ask what this was. I DID NOT want to cash it, seeing as I didn’t know what it was. I was informed by the associate director that I had overpaid, and the remaining was from my pell grant that had just came in. I thought it was weird, but I just left with what she told me. Anyway, 2 months into my full time pharmacy tech job and I still haven’t received my diploma, constantly informing my teacher of this. By the third month, I received a call from the financial aid department asking me to pull out student loans. Confused, I told her I graduated already, and had paid in full. She informed me that I had a balance of $3,500, and 90 DAYS OF LATE PAYMENTS THAT I HAD NO IDEA ABOUT!!! I was so angry, knowing I had more than enough left in my 5-29 to pay for it. I honestly would never recommend this school to anyone, as I am only 21 and my credit is now completely ruined because of this school. I will never be able to get a house, my own car, or credit cards, without having someone co-sign for me. I would recommend anyone going into this field to skip the school altogether, and just take a program through something like Walgreens. They pay for it too!
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Stay away from this trash of a school. Don’t let Robin or Ann bamboozle you into taking tests and filling out forms. Because next thing you know, you’re enrolled. They’re hustlers looking for suckers to make a commission on. RUN DON’T WALK FROM THIS PLACE!!! Soon this place will be another ITT Tech!!
Betsy
Trust me i understand that they seem a little aggressive in “Admissions”. I went through the exact same …to the tee (other than bringing my husband, and I didn’t have this part happen to me ” My name was on a welcome board, and I had tick an “admissions” box on the sign-in sheet.”)
Anyway its a chain business they are all trained by corp. on what to say & what to ask.
what to ask.
Now the attitude part I NEVER received at the Ross here in Johnson City, Tn.
I found it all a little strange at first. But let me explain why they do each.
About getting you there that week … Admissions gets paid and has to keep a certain number for people enrolling with them. (never should that woman have they went to the extremes of making rude comments to you.) That NEVER happened to me.
The test is to access if you would be able to understand certain scenarios and to get an idea about what kind of person you are. If you have strong morals, good work ethic.
Bc If they enroll you and you don’t go to extern on the days you were suppose to work. Then the extern site can fire you and that not only looks bad on you for future hiring, but Ross as well. They help you find extern sites and once you graduate from the program they help you find a job. I graduated in Oct 2015 from the dental assistant program in Johnson City , Tn and they are still sending me job offers (the only reason I cant accept on right now is bc of a situation with me having to care for a family member around the clock.
ROSS IS NOT A SCAM! Take it from a Licensed Dental Assistant graduate. And someone who has witness the hard work they do to get u a job after you graduate.
Tennessee has an amazing success rate at finding people the job in the field that you graduated from.
It all started earlier in the week. As someone who wants to go to college to work in the veterinary field, I thought this Veterinary Assistant program would be a useful stepping stone into the industry. I was browsing their website for information on their Veterinary Assistant program and found none, so I filled in some details on an online form. The first red flag was when they contacted me over the phone within literally 10 minutes of sending the form, and asked me strange survey-like questions. When I said I had inquiries about the course, they invited me to a personal one-on-one consultation, later in the week. I made it perfectly clear that I didn’t want to make a commitment, and they seemed OK with it and made out that it was all pretty standard, and solely for MY benefit only. When I told them I couldn’t make it that week and tried to get an appointment for the following week, they insisted it had to be within the next few days, as “We don’t make appointments that far in advance.” So that was another red flag. I thought the focus of their questions was strange, and they gave me no information about the course.
They even phoned me up the morning of the consultation, in order to confirm that I could still make it! I found their attitude a little full-on. I was very suspicious, but decided to give it a chance anyway, and asked my husband to go with me.
When I went in for the appointment, I walked in the door and we immediately got a slightly sinister impression. They asked me to sign in and offered us water. “Ross Medical Center” was plastered absolutely everywhere all over the lobby (even on the water bottles they gave us), almost like some weird subliminal advertising. It was all about first impressions. My name was on a welcome board, and I had tick an “admissions” box on the sign-in sheet, which I thought was weird, considering that I was only there to inquire, and in no way make any final decisions. I wasn’t even asked to confirm my identity at the front desk.
I then had to fill in another two-sided form, which asked more long-winded, ambiguous and survey-like questions – mostly about my current employment, future goals, and my ideal kind of education. It was not like any application form I have ever filled out.
Once I had completed the form, were ushered into an office room with a woman who seemed very fake and “plastic.” She wanted to go through my form, and “evaluate” my answers. She asked me irrelevant and overly-personal questions, and made rude assumptions about me.
At one point, she felt as though I was being distracted by the presence of my husband and made him sit in the corner, away from me. I felt as though I was high schooler at a parent-teacher conference rather than a married adult woman looking to begin a career.
She asked me more personal questions, about employment, past education and transportation. When I told her I moved from England, and currently relied on my husband for transport, she looked concerned, and asked: “Is it right to assume that you’re at his whim? So what will you do if he can’t get you here? And what will you do if he doesn’t support your decision to be here?” I could only sit, speechless, at the cheek of it.
She continued to ask more survey questions, amending my answers when she saw fit, and nodding approvingly whenever I had written something she liked.
I was then bombarded with slideshows, graphs and statistics of graduation and employment, as she spoke at a million miles an hour.
She kept commenting on how uncomfortable I looked, and how she could tell that I was “a shy person” and telling to me to “relax.” At one point, she even stopped to ask “If you’re so nervous now, how are you going to be when you’re a student?” An unnerving amount of questions were about how willing I was to commit to them, despite any personal obligations or traits that might get in the way of my “education.” All very strange, considering I kept insisting right from the beginning that I was not looking to sign up for anything.
No college has ever asked me about employment, transportation (or the feelings of my family members/spouse surrounding my education), and this “college” asked me multiple times, both on the forms and in person.
The final straw came when she put a mock test paper in front of me and insisted it was a practice exam question for the 50-part questionnaire they wanted me to take on the computer. I balked, and she assured me it was standard procedure. But enough was enough.
I had only wanted to inquire about the course, not to apply or enroll, and after an hour of filling out forms, answering questions and looking at slideshows, I realized I still knew no more about the course than I did before. I hadn’t seen the campus, and as much as she kept insisting I could ask questions, she had given away very little information. And now they wanted me to sit and take a test? I don’t think so.
It was basically going in the direction that they were going to try and push me into making a personal and financial commitment to them, and I had to put an end to it. I wondered how long it would be before I was badgered into signing my bank details over to them. It was all very fast-moving, and obviously one big sales drive. Everything about them, from the forms to the invasive questions, implied that their number-one priority was to fill a quota.
As soon as she left the room, me and my husband agreed it was all very shady and a scam. He had been looking at reviews on his phone, and that pretty much confirmed what we thought – $15,000 for a bad quality course and non-transferable credits, leaving a lot of people unemployed and in debt. No wonder they tried so desperately to keep us there. My husband wanted to fake an emergency to get us out of there, and predicted that she would try anything to keep our attention, but I insisted on being honest.
As soon as she came back in the room, I told her I had thought about it and I was no longer interested. I told them the situation was not making me feel comfortable, and her reaction was just as strange as my husband predicted.
At first, she tried to talk me out of leaving by offering me a campus tour (anything to keep my attention), but I politely refused, insisting that it was better for us to leave. Then she turned back to assumptions and accusations, first asking me what I was going to do with my life if I wasn’t going to attend, and then going onto accusing my husband of “distracting me” and talking me out of it commitments. We promptly thanked her for her time and walked out of the office.
I left feeling quite creeped out and a little paranoid they have some of my details, but I’m so glad I made the decision to walk away. We suspected it was a scam, and it was. Please avoid this place, no matter how tempting. Be careful about what details you give out and which questions you answer. Don’t be afraid to say “no” to people, and refuse to answer questions that make you uncomfortable. AVOID.
I am a waitress now by my own choice because I had to get a better paying job. I just wish I had the time to sit outside Ross with a sign warning everybody to save people from making the mistake that I did. If all you want is a job where you get paid $11 dollars an hour with no chance of career advancement or further education, Ross might just be perfect for you. And that’s if you are lucky enough to find a job. I know a lot of my classmates never were able to. I was lucky enough because I am bilingual. This was the most expensive mistake I will ever make in my life. After interest on student loans, we are talking wayyyy over $17,000.00. Please take your money elsewhere where it is a better investment. Somewhere that, if you decide one day that you aren’t satisfied with an $11/hour s**t-on position, you can actually use your credits towards furthering your education.
I have done a lot of stupid things as a teen/young adult, but if I could change just one mistake, it would be Ross medical education center.
Stay away from this school! They have a daily conference call to bully all campuses into getting more enrollment at any cost.
They don’t care about you. Behind the scenes is shocking.
I wish all the best for the students who were left behind.. my prayers are with you for a brighter future.
I would love some of you all to join together and complain as a group as to the fact that you did not get what you feel you should have gotten considering what you all had to pay. It seems to me from what I have seen, that Ross is a program that tends to cater to people who are financially challenged. They then just collect the grants, loans, and moneys and don’t actually provide everything that they promise during the orientation that gets you excited to enroll in their program.
After months of applying for jobs I finally found a part time position as a Medical Assistant. It only lasted for 3 months.
I wish I had seen reviews prior to applying here.
A career counselor at the University of Michigan asked me why I chose ROSS
versus persuing an associates degree at a community college, then possibly
transferring to a 4 year college.
I told her that I registered at Ross, because I had no guidance. I was recently divorced, unable to find a job and had no college education. I was looking for something that would make me marketable, after 8 years as a stay at home Mom.
Ross was a waste of time and money. I have a $9,000 federal student loan that I cannot repay, and I have defered it TWICE. I have been unable to find even a part-time job.
The career counselor told me that if I had applied at a community college…because of me being unemployed and being low income I would have qualified for all kinds of grants, and had my first year of college PAID FOR.
Its true …..all ROSS cares about is money. If you have a pulse and qualify for a Pell grant…..they want you.
The week before the 4th of July I got a call stating they found me a job in one of my areas and OFFERED to fax my resume for me if I didn’t have a means to get up to the area where it was at. Long story short I didn’t have the money or gas to make it to and back home, so I called and asked them to fax my resume over. Not even 30 minutes later the campus director of my school calls me, all nice and cheerful at first thinking I’d already driven up their. We ended up in a argument where she thought people who have ZERO income can pull $20 bills out of ones rear end! I basically implied: Does this mean should I go stand out at the end of my road dressed as a hooker to obtain this magical $20 I don’t have? After wasting daytime minutes on my phone she never called back. So the next day I called this doctors office and how funny…They didn’t GET my resume! Talk about FISHY! So I had to dig out $3.00 in pennies and have someone drive me uptown nearby to fax my resume over myself. About a week later I get a call from one guy who works around all the schools offering to help me get a job, I go and all it was was role playing and ME redoing my Resume myself…I had utterly no help in getting it looking better. That was a waste of $4.00 in gas and 3 hours of my time! Since than I have heard not one single peep from this school! The job club is a joke, they give you these papers to fill out and after you get 10-15 you get a whole woopin’ $5.00 gas card! Wow…That’s going to do someone a whole lot of good when they most likely spent $15.00 in gas going to all these offices. So the lazy women in CDC can just go: Mmm let’s see what our job club students found for us to use as internship sites!
Another thing one of the males they got working at the campus I went to is a complete egotistical jerk! If you got a voice mail he doesn’t like he will basically treat you like a dog ladies and than hold out his hand demanding you give your phone over to him to change it. I’m sorry, but I can change my OWN voice mail on my own phone, ‘Mr. Dude Whom was former office manger’ and also nobody in that school has a RIGHT to touch your personal property if anything your personal cellphone! He also did this little insult of his with 2 other office women present in the room I wasn’t impressed in the slightest by his professionalism. Can I deduct his entire paycheck for that week?
So long story short, ADVOID THIS SCHOOL AT ALL COSTS! IT’S NOT WORTH IT! I now owe $9000+ dollars in loan debt I cannot even pay back and have no job. I can only hope this school gets hit with a lawsuit down the road for the many graduates they have scammed!
It appears from other comments made here and by other students at other college forums that Ross’s days are numbered. Take care