Ultimate Medical Academy It's all about the money to UMA Clearwater Florida

You are receiving a paycheck from the school. I have more college credits than you will see in your lifetime. Don't think you will bite the hand that feeds you, do you?

We are in a recession. Yet UMA keeps pumping and pumping out students. Eventually, if the students cannot find jobs, it will reflect very badly on the school, and it will be closed down.

People, go to a community college. It is way less expensive than this school. Don't go to private schools. They are ripoffs and shams.

You are receiving a paycheck from the school. I have more college credits than you will see in your lifetime. Don't think you will bite the hand that feeds you, do you?

We are in a recession. Yet UMA keeps pumping and pumping out students. Eventually, if the students cannot find jobs, it will reflect very badly on the school, and it will be closed down.

People, go to a community college. It is way less expensive than this school. Don't go to private schools. They are ripoffs and shams.

You are receiving a paycheck from the school. I have more college credits than you will see in your lifetime. Don't think you will bite the hand that feeds you, do you?

We are in a recession. Yet UMA keeps pumping and pumping out students. Eventually, if the students cannot find jobs, it will reflect very badly on the school, and it will be closed down.

People, go to a community college. It is way less expensive than this school. Don't go to private schools. They are ripoffs and shams.

The PCT course is more than the MCLA course in Clearwater? And tell me why a course with the exact same content + a CNA class on the end cost less than one without?

And tell me why all I wanted to do was be a CNA (not looking to become a nurse, not looking for riches) and I wasn't even given any information on the course? I was not expecting something for nothing, but I was completely ripped off in every possible way. So now I've got nothing for God only knows how much they're actually trying to charge me now.

I did my externship with an X-ray tech from the Tampa campus and she told me what a nightmare it was.

Should I scan some of the agreements and papers I was given quoting the prices on these courses? You try to tell me I'm incorrect when I have papers signed by the school on the prices of these courses?

Nice try. I'll post them if necessary.

First and foremost, let me clear the air w/ "Missa" on the PCT/MCLA programs. PCT is actually cheaper than the Medical Asst course - the Medical Asst course is $14,650 and the PCT course is $14,150. So the idea that you believe an admissions rep would try to "sell" you on the more expensive program is false. Secondly, if you were to come into any UMA school asking for nursing asst (b/c somehow you falsely believe that this is the golden paved road to the "nursing" field), I would tell you the course is only 5 weeks and there is no finanicial aid for this program (that's the gov't, not the school's doing) so start shelling out $1300 dollars and by the way, no one hires Nursing Assistants unless they're certified, so be prepared to take the $140 test afterwards and then once you are a CNA, you can look forward to working for NURSING HOMES for $9 an hour. Who wants that??? When yes, it takes more time and money to be a PCT than a Nursing Asst, but the students learn SO much more, earn more, and then can work for hospitals. And fyi - the gov't offers financial aid for PCT program.

Now, for those naysayers who think UMA (which I work for the one in TAMPA, by the way) is just the worst school ever, let's look at what the admissions reps and student services employees deal with. Perhaps, then, you can understand that we do SO much more for our students than any public community college or most private trade schools. I come in contact with students who want the world - meaning, they want short programs, completely free, and they want us to then put them into a career and guarantee them that they will be successful. Yet these same students (most of them but they're are a few exceptions) couldn't handle the rigors of a traditional school with 2 years of math and English and foreign languages and sitting in a class for hours listening to a professor speak at a podium. Heck, most of these students can barely pass a GED test. These same students also don't work, have children, have FELONIES, and have a myriad of lame excuses that stop them from being successful in life (my car broke down, it's too hot outside, my baby's mama keyed my car, etc etc). And yet they want it ALL. Even students who are college educated and working FT jobs seem to believe that becuase we offer an inch of services, they should be able to stretch it into a mile.

I wake up every day knowing that some of these students need a swift kick in the a*s to get going, tough love, if you will, and I am here to deliver it. In fact, I may be the only person in this student's life who cares enough to tell them that they are ridiculous if they want the Nursing Asst program to create a better life for them and their kids (b/c they wont - its pays too little) or that they better get it together and realize that college or higher education is NOT free and if you want a handout, you will never get far in life. And I don't care whose cousin/sister/auntie/neighbor told you that there is SO much help out there for single mothers who are not working - that doesnt mean schooling is going to be handed to you on a silver platter.

UMA offers job placement, we can offer leaves of absence if needed, and we only have a 4 day school week, with class times that can fit into almost every schedule. We have smaller classes than most and our teachers care about their students' success. So please save all the whining b/c you cannot take the skills we gave you and turn yourself into a positive aspect of the comuunity. Please talk to the 100s of our graduates that have.

I filed the other report on this place. I'm really happy someone else did. I wish I would have discovered this site while I still lived in FL so I could have gotten other classmates to file.

The only good thing about this school was my teacher (Mr. Wally!)

Everything else was pure lies. After so long of looking, I still haven't found a job in the field. The school claims to help you with job placement, but you're really on your own.

I need to go update my report because they actually ripped me off really bad with my financial issues (trying to say I owe them over $20,000 when the MCLA program I was in was only about $11,000).

Good luck in your job search. I had to seek employment elsewhere and am now working in a call center. So much of my time and money has been wasted :[

I filed the other report on this place. I'm really happy someone else did. I wish I would have discovered this site while I still lived in FL so I could have gotten other classmates to file.

The only good thing about this school was my teacher (Mr. Wally!)

Everything else was pure lies. After so long of looking, I still haven't found a job in the field. The school claims to help you with job placement, but you're really on your own.

I need to go update my report because they actually ripped me off really bad with my financial issues (trying to say I owe them over $20,000 when the MCLA program I was in was only about $11,000).

Good luck in your job search. I had to seek employment elsewhere and am now working in a call center. So much of my time and money has been wasted :[

I filed the other report on this place. I'm really happy someone else did. I wish I would have discovered this site while I still lived in FL so I could have gotten other classmates to file.

The only good thing about this school was my teacher (Mr. Wally!)

Everything else was pure lies. After so long of looking, I still haven't found a job in the field. The school claims to help you with job placement, but you're really on your own.

I need to go update my report because they actually ripped me off really bad with my financial issues (trying to say I owe them over $20,000 when the MCLA program I was in was only about $11,000).

Good luck in your job search. I had to seek employment elsewhere and am now working in a call center. So much of my time and money has been wasted :[

I filed the other report on this place. I'm really happy someone else did. I wish I would have discovered this site while I still lived in FL so I could have gotten other classmates to file.

The only good thing about this school was my teacher (Mr. Wally!)

Everything else was pure lies. After so long of looking, I still haven't found a job in the field. The school claims to help you with job placement, but you're really on your own.

I need to go update my report because they actually ripped me off really bad with my financial issues (trying to say I owe them over $20,000 when the MCLA program I was in was only about $11,000).

Good luck in your job search. I had to seek employment elsewhere and am now working in a call center. So much of my time and money has been wasted :[