Wharton County Junior College — Local services in Richmond

The last review posted about the WCJC Dental Hygiene program was 5 years ago so, if you’re looking at reviews as a prospective student in 2023, here’s another bad review to confirm all the horrible things the last person said. Where do I begin?

The intention of this review is for prospective students considering this program, if it reaches the faculty I truly hope it inspires some much needed positive changes. To begin, I have resulted in posting a review online because student feedback in the program does not hold weight, especially to the previous DH program director who is now the current Allied Health Programs department head; AKA the same person running the DH program for decades and the people above her are as well. All faculty, with a couple of exceptions, were all once students of the program. All of this being said, now you have some context as to why things are not and will not change in this program without more students speaking up, unfortunately requiring in this manner so that it cannot be denied/removed. Which they have done in the past, including on the school Facebook Page. If word gets out about how awful this program is, they will lose the only real money WCJC makes, so don’t doubt they cherry pick released information.

Here are some statistics I wish I had known before I accepted entrance into this program. The average starting freshman class is 28 students. This is more students than there are clinic seats, as there are only 23 clinic operatories. In the first semester, about five students will fail out. If they didn’t, there wouldn’t be room for them in the second semester when they have to see patients in clinic. My class started with 28 and conveniently, only 23 made it to second semester. This will happen and has happened to every freshman class. The likelihood of making it to graduation is very slim, the largest graduating class was 10 students. The smallest has been close to 5 students. Most recently, it has been 7 students. Why is the graduation rate so low?

I have a few theories, all with enough evidence to support any one of them. First and foremost is that the program itself is very unforgiving. You can pass lecture and clinic all semester long but if you fail your final exam in any one lecture or clinic, you fail the entire first year and have to repeat the entire first year, which can only happen once. So don’t fail your final, simple enough right? But “failing” is anything below a 75. If you make a 74 on a final? And have an average A in everything else? You still fail. They say exceptions are made (they have to), but they are not. Let’s say you pass all your lectures and clinic and your finals, you’ll definitely pass then right? Not necessarily. As a consequence of any rule broken on school grounds, such as being out of dress code (having your hair touching your face or shoulders, wearing the wrong color scrubs or shoes or socks or hairband or earrings or jewelry, having any tattoo uncovered no matter where it is or how rare the instance it has a chance to become visible is, your makeup is too heavy or bold for their liking, the list goes on) or acting “unprofessionally” (having any feelings/ thoughts/ ideas etc that go against the program, lacking knowledge of anything regarding the program, “not respecting the boundaries of an instructor” i.e. asking anything of the program director for anything during her lunch hour, and any other social situation they deem so), you will receive a “5”. A “5” is a demerit on your semester record that takes 5 points off of your average grade. Get a few of those (which isn’t hard to do because some instructors love giving them out like candy) and even if you have a 100% average,...

This is a warning to anyone considering WCJC for Medical Billing and Coding, they could not provide adequate educators on this subject and still proceeded with the course, instead of cancelling or postponing until they could find an actual billing and coding specialist educator. Being so new to this field I didn’t know what to look for until the red flags started to show, and soon the instructors were confirming my concern, by that point we were finishing the course. I left WCJC 1800.00 dollars less and didn’t gain any real knowledge that would have prepared me for work or even the exam. Lesson learned, but if I would have seen a review like this when I was looking for schools I would have considered other options before committing to this place. They treat education like a cattle line, once you pay, they do not care about your success afterwards. Weigh your...

Both women at the Registration have lost my paperwork on different occasions and have been extremely rude since the very first time I signed up over a year ago, they are condescending and have little or no concern in helping you as they will not acknowledge you and what you are saying for some reason and begin loudly talking over you to drown out what your saying. They clearly have some sort of underlying personal problems with some students, very unprofessional in almost every aspect not to mention giving me false information about my orientation being completed which is was and costing me an entire day of work by making me go through the online...