Fasttrain

I realize the description says CLOSED, but the owners actually have another very open location in Kendall next to Miami Dade College, and even another couple upstate.
Let me tell you that first and foremost, this school is nothing but a complete scam. When you walk in they immediately put you in a room with a business version of an academic advisor. This person evaluates your desperation for a better job with better pay and tells you that the best thing you can do is take classes with them and you’ll be doing great in a year.
What they don’t tell you is that most of their students have been them for six years. I’ll tell you why:
Their class schedules are not flexible nor accomodating to say the least. They make schedule changes at the very last minute and they do not take into consideration the fact that you may have 2 children to take care of, or a job that might need to be worked at, at the times they schedule their bogus classes.
Here’s how their classes are bogus:
The «professors» are all handed books to teach their curriculum from, and that’s it. No real lesson plan to speak of. They spend the entire class looking at powerpoints.
This school, or company as I like to call it preys on individuals who are too naïve to see that they are being scammed.
I haven’t yet told you the worst part.
It’s pretty expensive to attend this «prestigious» technical school, and so they offer financing options as well as federal aid if you qualify.
Financial aid usually makes it to the students’ hands at some point, at least in a legitimate college institution.
At this location, you almost never see a cent of it, and they don’t easily hand back what’s left over after the expenses for books and tuition have been covered.
People usually apply for financial aid to alleviate their need to work while in school so they can pay rent. These people sincerely never see that money. FastTrain keeps it all and makes desperate excuses not to pay it out.
You might be wondering how I know all this. Let’s just say I had an opportunity to be enlightened as to their working practices.
I would never recommend this place to a family member or a friend who’s in a tight spot. I’d definitely go to Pheonix first.
Please don’t make this mistake. It will the most costly thing you ever do to make things right and things will just be worse in the end. Walk up to any of those students while they’re in a break between classes and they’ll tell you just how much time and money they’re really wasting.