Parker University — Attraction in Dallas

My experience at parker was wonderful while I was doing my basics; I meet so many students I can relate too. Working full time with kids and manage to go to school at night. I was so excited to start the sonography class, class hours were 3 days a week half a day. Let’s start with the interview process you get to meet the Angela Smith (director) and 2 teachers, right away the director had told me she could tell English was my second language that should have been a red flag. The first class was easy no complains besides Angela always interrupting class, walking in gossiping with teacher. Seriously can’t this wait till the end of the day, I know she has plenty of emails and calls for the people interested in applying. Now to the second class, this class was hard I was passing with a C but depending on what I make on the final I could continue or fail. First off this teacher would lecture us and say if I would you highlight this might be on test that was not always true, than her excuse would be well I can’t just handle it too you, you guys need to work for it or if you guys are doing this for the money well you guys are NOT going to graduate. At this point half the class was failing; keep in mind I would come here even on the days there was no class seeking for help from teachers. Students would come in, to seek help but the teacher would be busy in her office while we wore in the classroom. This is what really upset me the most they encourage us to buddy up and seek help from students, but then I hear the students that are passing I was told by Angela not to help you cause you might get me behind. The day before the final there were 4 of us not passing, but out of the 4 one was white. Angela came in the room noticed that we were all studying and decided to pull the person out to tell her is not a good idea for us to study she was better off at home. I have never felt more discriminated in my entire life. Whoever is interested in this program I would ask how many people start and how many graduates? Because I don’t understand how 10 students start in the program and 2 end up graduating. And if you pass let’s see 3 classes but you fail the 4th can you continue or would you start all over? This is what happened too one student she was dismissed and she would have to start all over again which is ridicules they should give a second chance. Meaning: YOU would have to re-apply for next semester 2) take the same classes 3) another 1600 to 1800 dollars a class in tuition fees 4) delaying graduation process. But let me informed you I was warned before I even started the program that the director is a racist, has favoritism etc. But I ignored everyone because I didn’t think this would happen to me. I know most of the students did take other students advice and changed programs like radiology program or OTA. I know I might be the first negative post you see because the other students are either scare, want to come back to the program or are taking a different program and don’t want any conflict with the director since we all share the...

I attended this schools OTA program and I can guarantee you will not get a better education anywhere else. The crew there prepare you so well for the field. As for the school, it's amazing. Hit by a tornado and it didnt affect the students learning experience. Covid hit and they already had a plan set to make sure no one got pushed back. The cons are small and understandable. Financial aid sometimes forgets to send you the email to renew so just keep up with it yourself. And some other enrollment/payment procedures are a bit lax to where you need to keep up with them. But they deal with the whole school so it's understandable that a few slip through. Definitely take a tour and see if this schools for you. They have a variety of professions you can go into. The schools been updated since the tornado and it looks immaculate, they really did a good job of fixing and upgrading the facility at...

I was kinda rushed into starting and didn't realize the online-only curriculum was going to involve soooooo much writing and citing and having to include references in 4 weeks. For each course there is so much emphasis put on research for writing essays and 1-6 page papers that there is less time to actually read all the text and retain/comprehend what you're studying. The essays aren't too bad, but then you have to come up with creative ways to respond to 2 or more of your peers explaining why you agree or disagree with what they each posted. What ever happened to reading the text and studying, listening to a lecture or two and then working on an assignment or a test? It my just be the 4 week time period, with new assignments and discussions due each week, that gets me frazzled. I may have to switch to hybrid or in person...