.....juice says: April 13, 2012 at 4:02 pm so dissapointed….Porter and Chester is all about money. massholes. thieves and liers. everyone is a gangster or a wannabe. school has absolutley no structure or respect for students.
i should have reconsidered.

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David says: April 15, 2012 at 4:45 am The comment from “Believer” sounds like one of the instructors. And it’s the old “if you can’t find a job then you just haven’t tried hard enough” line of B.S…Complete with the “you’re a loser” attitude.

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​Thing is, the job placement assistance they ADVERTISE is really just a nifty Power Point presentation. WHEW! It was a beauty too! The experience left me breathless. I shouldn’t say negative things about my last boss at an interview? Really??? Who knew…I gots da skills now and it only cost me “twenty large”.

 

Believer says: April 18, 2012 at 7:00 pm I went to school at PCI and worked my tail off. I was determined and motivated and did not expect or “rely” on anyone to “get me a job ” If you got ” da skills” then you should be able to turn your ” 20 large investment” into a return. End of the day people with quality skills, good presentation skills, good work ethic, etc are getting hired like me.. The company I work for can not even seem to find people with descent professional manners let along skill. Considering you speak terms like ” da skills” sort of implies a certain kind of mind set.. not sure it is the one employers look for. Good luck

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Dazed and Confused says: April 23, 2012 at 6:17 am I was a CADD student in Chicopee. When I went for a tour of the school, I wasn’t all that impressed with the classroom(folding tables with a computer on it), but I was looking for a change in career and the CPS told me that they had an 85 – 100% placement rate, so I signed on. I was also told that they would be starting to teach 3d drafting as part of the curriculum, I was almost done with the course when they started teaching it to the new starts. I had to start learning it on my own (my instructor did help some to get me started, but couldn’t spend much time with me on it). While the instructors were good, I soon found that Porter & Chester placement numbers were far from true. The numbers quoted were from 2 years prior. While students were going out the backdoor without jobs, they continued to bring more in the front door, fully aware that they were struggling to find jobs for previous graduates.

 

The other issue I had was the equipment, some of the local trade schools (high schools) had better computers than we did. And there were constant issues with them, while the IT students did their best, it seemed they were in the class every day, mostly patching them up. Computers are cheap today and for 25,000 dollars for the course, there were probably 25 to 30 of us using them between the day and the evening course that they could upgrade and replace them every 18 months so that the students were working on the latest equipment.

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Also the director would come in and have us do surveys, which by your 3rd term most of us felt were a joke. I understand that they are a business and they can’t do everything that is suggested by the students, but come on how many months do you have to complain about adding more RAM to the computers, so that it would minimize crashes (it’s not that expensive).

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Any way I could go on and on as to how I feel I was sold short, in all areas from start to finish, so I’ll just stop here.

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mike says: April 25, 2012 at 5:03 am This is a for profit school that will glady take your money and then not invest any $ into learning materials or teaching the students at all. Choose another trade school because Porter and Chester is a complete mess. I dont know if at one point this school might have been legit but it has definitely Become a hole in the wall.

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whiteboy says: April 27, 2012 at 5:23 am this school fucking sucks. and to the instructor - beliver. you bulshitting retarded ass lier. school is for sure a scam, and pool of illegal money racketeering

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dontworry says: April 29, 2012 at 3:13 pm Porter & Chester is no good, instructors dont even help you. it is a waste of 30k you can buy a book and a shity car and learn that way (for under $600) or find a better school……………………..