Great Lakes Institute of Technology — Local services in Millcreek Township

For $15,000.00 I was unable to get a degree OR certification thru the state as a veterinary assistant. After my mistake/Great Lakes I found a REAL program/school where you can get certified by the state and it is only around $3,000.00 for the ENTIRE PROGRAM not the almost $15,000 that I paid! Please look before you leap. I wish I would’ve done a little more research before I wasted my time at Great Lakes. Virtually NONE of their equipment worked (including the x-ray machine they show pictures of on the website.). A total scam is all they are. The director of the vet assistant program is an atheist who is beyond biased and acts accordingly. She always does what she wants regardless of what’s best for the student or the class as a whole. The administration is kind, but does not call you back on anything. They actually went as far as removing the ability to post reviews directly to their website, because they had so many negative, detrimental yet honest reviews (They didn't respond to them anyway). If it doesn’t interest them, it just gets overlooked and ignored just like I did. I was a nontraditional student from the start who hadn't been in school in 15 years. I also lost my best friend from a seizure 4 days before classes started. I started this program at a deficit, but I struggled to maintain and continue my education. It wasn't until right before graduation that suddenly I was asked to leave with no explanation. That's ridiculous to let somebody go all the way through an entire program and then drop them days before graduation especially after all I've been through. Now I owe 15 grand and have no diploma and definitely no certification. Great Lakes was a really dumb idea. I didn't realize they would be so simple and biased and risked someone's education/career choice / life path over a personal vendetta. It seems really immature and childish. Look before you leap! Please don’t waste your time at a pretend school like I did, don't spend five times as much money on a program that can't even certify you with the state! You should look into it and go to a REAL school where you can be certified by the REAL state as a REAL vet assistant. :) There they will actually care about your training and act accordingly. Please don’t do as I did and waste your time at Great Lakes Institute of Technology. That place was a joke with a special emphasis on the veterinary assistant program! All year we only took one field trip to the zoo for a 30 minute presentation, that was it!!! On some clinic days I was allowed to do nothing except watch. The classes weren't that big. There's no excuse for that other than ignorance and immaturity. Great Lakes is so poorly run you would be lucky to be trained semi- properly (especially with their lack of functioning equipment, knowledge, materials, etc.) or to complete the entire program and be taught anything relevant to today's world. It wasn't all that rigorous or difficult of a program, but remember it's NOT a REAL school, so you can't REALLY get certified by the REAL Commonwealth. My class had well over 40 students in it and I was by far the oldest one. When it was all said and done MAYBE 5-6 people out of the 40 completed it. Great Lakes Institute of Technology is a total scam. Please stear clear of G.L.I.T., go to a REAL school (and costs around $3,000.00, not $15,000.00 like Great Lakes charged me. Please don’t blow your money like I did. Look before you leap. This...

I agree completely with the person who stated that the instructors bring their personal lives into the classroom. My six month experience at this school was nothing but a drama filled, overly-priced, waste of time. When I toured the school, I was told I could use my medical office certificate to find a coding job. After I enrolled I was talking to one of the instructors about the career path I wanted to take and she told me I'd never get hired as a coder with this certificate. When I asked the tour guide about it, she completely turned on me and began yelling at me to get out of her office and accused me of lying and verbally attacking her. I was forced into a high-pressure externship that I didn't want. I was told I had to do it because I was a good representative of the school. I found my own job after graduation without their help but they used my name in materials that made it look like they found the job for me. The jobs I found barely paid over minimum wage. I am struggling to repay the hefty loan I had to take out to cover the ridiculous price of this course. The instructors were not well educated, not trained to teach, and not monitored at all. Look into a college or university if you want to get into the medical field, not a technology school. Your "certificate" will not stand up to any degree you can...

I came here for the DA program and left immediately after how unprofessional and rude the instructors were. One of them had nothing prepared for the first day so we sat there in silence for most of the class. She didn’t know how to pronounce half of the things we were learning (dental terminology). Then told us her answer key had errors so if she messed up on grading it was “our responsibility to correct her.” She also talked badly about the other instructor during class and called her names with 2 students. The other instructor was rude from day one, even on my tour she seemed annoyed and unfriendly. You can tell when people care about their jobs and genuinely want to teach. This wasn’t that kind of...