Submitted by: David
Im a: Teacher
Date: 16/07/2008
As an Instructor at CPI I believe we offer a program that enables a large number of people to obtain a working education and the assistance to find a true career path. The program is designed to let a student come in at nearly any time and allows them to work at a pace that respects them as a student, possibley a parent, and someone maybe holding down a day job so they can go to school at night. We don't have a football team, no fraternities on campus, nothing like that. What we DO offer is a solid program delivered professionally and for a reasonable price. Instructors go overboard to assist the students with their class work and often go beyond just what the question in the book is talking about. Will you have a perfect expereience there? Probably not. Will you be guaranteed to know everything a bout everything when you graduate? Probably won't Will you have a chance to be the person YOU want to be? Absolutely. It is a case of you get out of it what you put in. Come in with the attitude of wanting to learn, and you'll find an entire staff that is there to support you. You'll end up being another of the many that say "Thanks Career Point!"
Submitted by: Jennifer
Im a: Status
Date: 12/07/2008
I would just like to add a few comments here regarding previous postings. I completely understand Lisa's post with her frustration on not having qualified applicants from Career Point. If you read the two posts from current/former students Judith and Brooke, one can come to an assumption on the caliber of student from their grammatically botched posts alone. “Students don't want to pay back ‘there’ student loans, or ‘they are’ employers out there” instead of ‘there are’...I mean really, we're adults not third graders. As an employer, seeing these kinds of errors and the overall comments Brooke made that did not really make any sense, would make me question the filing and typing ability, let alone the responsibility of handling insurance and patient accounts, by these students. In my opinion, CPI should be working with students on basic English and business skills (as one student indicated, the institute takes a lot of high school drop outs) before sending them through with hands-on skills alone. It seems unfair that CPI is receiving financial aid assistance and giving students 4.0 grades to make themselves look good, but not doing the student justice. This is only my opinion, of course.
Subject: Professors
Submitted by: Brooke
Im a: Student
Date: 30/06/2008
I was worried I was gonna fail cuz I wasn't sure on the self pace do it your own way , but I am tellin you if you ask for help you will get it, the professors go above and beyond their call of duty to help you in anyway they can. THANKS DOC!!! THANKS MAMA BASS AND BABY BASS!!!!
Submitted by: April
Im a: Student
Date: 22/05/2008
So I am reading this reviews and at first i was horrified, but i sat and thought about it. There are many schools out there and they all have faults but in my honest opinion, who has the right to judge. I have been going here for 3 months or so and i could see why some employers would shy away from hiring a student but in our defense not all of us are ignorant.It is a self based program and you do your work at your own pace. But if your confused or unsure of the work your doing i know most of these teachers here are more than willing to help you understand it you just have to ask.
I am here getting the skills that i need to be able to run a business successfully. I feel that for the most part i am getting those skills.
It is possible for someone to slide through with a 4.0 gpa and not know a head from a hole in the ground but those same people if they went to another school are most likely to be the same way. if they wanted to learn it they would have but they didnt they wanted the certificate to be able to get a higher paying job. Its not the perfect school but its a good school and it gives people like me a chance. Not many schools take high school drop outs.
Also I dont know what deans the other reviewers are speaking of but i have met the ones here and they are very helpful even when it doesnt have anything to do with school. And for the former students who talk all this noise about it ---- I bet the most of you are still working drive thru at your local fast food joints.
Subject: Reputation
Submitted by: Judith
Im a: Former Student
Date: 26/03/2008
All of this negative reviews are bogus ! They are Employers who want free help and refuse to hire employees that they must pay !
Or students who do not want to pay back there loans! Career Point Institute can and will change your life ! And in a positive way . They help anyone who wants to change there life of hard knocks and do what ever it takes! Trust and belive all that I am saying. Everyone from Owner to the Housekeeper belives in every student and more compassion and understanding than any other School in Tulsa . If you want a change in your life and you are serious Career Point Institute is the WAY TO GO ! Don't beleive everything you read miserable people love COMPANY .
Submitted by: Lisa
Im a: Status
Date: 15/01/2008
I am not a current/former student, teacher or anyone else affiliated with Career Point Institute. I manage a local medical clinic in Tulsa, OK. When I was first hired to manage the clinic and the insurance billing department I had an employee that was a Career Point Institute graduate. She was always more than happy to tell me that she graduated with a 4.0 GPA and knew exactly how to code medical claims, work an A/R, audit a patient's account, re-work denials, etc. WRONG!!!! She didn't even know that if a patient had a secondary insurance carrier and Medicare didn't crossover the claim that she had to file the claim to the patient's secondary. So, that meant our A/R looked horrible because there were balances sitting out there that she never worked. She didn't understand how to code a claim using modifiers, etc. And DO NOT EVER ASK HER TO POST PAYMENTS FROM A MEDICARE EOB BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO READ THEM!!! But yet she graduated with a 4.0 GPA. (It must have been in DUMBASS!!! Or teachers at Career Point are just total idiots themselves and don't care if students learn anything.) So, for those of you that are current Career Point Students or former students for that matter, if I should ever have a position open that I need filled and you have Career Point listed on your resume, you may as well not bother sending it to me because I will throw it away!!!! Because I do not have the time to correct a full year's worth of mistakes made by Career Point students!!!
Submitted by: Tracye
Im a: Former Student
Date: 29/12/2007
I went to CPI and luckily got out of it, and there was a fight in getting out of it, before the three weeks was over. I literally had to drive there everyday for three days and hound them to get my paperwork sent in before I was charged by them for attending for two weeks. This school is a total joke. You walk in, you do not know what is going on, every other person in the class is on a different chapter and they hand you a book and say here, start at chapter one. So you are trying to concentrate on chapter one while everyone else is orally reviewing for a test on chapter 9. The Deans will blow smoke right up your rear if you let them. Do NOT waste your money on this school. Also, they say they will give you gas money if you cannot afford it. I heard a girl saying they gave her a $5 gas card per week to get from Tulsa to 40 miles north of Tulsa 4 times a week. Please, do not waste your money, go get a real education like I did, it is worth it!!
Subject: Atmosphere
Submitted by: Veronica
Im a: Student
Date: 29/11/2007
the atmosphere is as different as night and day here ant CPI during day and night classes. The day is so crowded and noisy and the people are very rude for no reason at all and it is just like high school with all the clicks and groups talking smack and plotting aginst the other students....
At the night classes the school is awsome you get all the teacher-student help you need and the people are alot easier to get along with more of an adult atmosphere.
The reps are very snooty if you are not their student and if you are your just another student unlike when they are trying to enroll you. My rep is now gone and i cannot count on any of the rest of them to give a crap about me.
The deans are both very nice and rude at the same time. They say it is because that is how the job world is and i just cannot belive that. We pay alot of money to come here and i would very much like to be treated with respect...
Subject: Dean
Submitted by: Tiffany
Im a: Student
Date: 09/08/2007
I signed up for Career Point Institute about two months ago. I feel like I am wasting my money and my time to learn things that I could have taught myself. One of our teachers is thirty minutes late every day and she doesn't know half of what were learning. I feel like our teachers were placed here to make it look like they were real teachers so they could con more people into coming to this school. I feel like I have made the biggest mistake of my life by choosing this school and not going somewhere halfway decent. MY dean is not very helpful either. All I want is to get out of this school now and get on with my life. All the books here are still raggedy and nasty and I wish someone in this posistion would have told me these things before I got started here. The teachers and reps are all fake when you first get here and then after you are past your three week orientation. Which is when you can no longer quit without having to pay your just forgotten about. Any person thinking about going to career point institue should be forwarned.
Submitted by: September
Im a: Former Student
Date: 27/06/2007
Career Point Institute does not provide students with real world preparation and necessary job skills. I went to Career Point for administrative assisting and it was horrible. First they made us take many, many months of keyboarding (on a typewriter!). We had to type on these old typewriters and use white-out on our mistakes. It wouldn't have been so bad if we could use computers. And when we did use computers, they had us follow Word, Excel, Access out of a training book (most of the time, the books were old and ragged and there weren't enough to go around). The "teachers" never taught us anything. I spent over $9,000 to teach myself Word programs from a book I could have bought on my own or checked out of a library. Then we had useless classes such as business math, where we learned to use the ten-key (again old equipment). The campus was small, the teachers were not helpful and lacked professionalism, and the administrative staff were rude and controlling. There was this one lady, Barbara, I guess she was the assistant dean but she called and called your house every time you were absent or running late. This was suppose to be college, but I felt like I was still back in high school. Many of the students had families and kids and it was necessary to miss days to take care of family things. Career Point didn't understand that; they hasseled their students like they were children and told them they were going to fail just because they missed one or two classes.
Overall, Career Point was a bad experience for me. They didn't help me find a job; they were not supportive of me when I told them I wanted to go to a real university to further my education; and they didn't teach me anything I didn't already learn from high school or anything I could use in my career. Career Point's idea of getting the "scoop" on job openings in the Tulsa area is sending former students a newsletter listing week-old job opportunities (which I already found in the Sunday newspaper). In the end, I graduated but I didn't gain anything but a lousy diploma. Career Point Institute--not a good vocational school.
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