P.A.T Institute

Overall Dissatisfaction

29th of Feb, 2012 by scammed2

This "school" is a money grab. I have read many reviews on several sites and 98% off them reveal the truth about P.A.T and how they steal your money and barely teach you anything more than common knowledge. I'd like to think the 2% that say P.A.T went above and beyond for them are paid employees of the school. This is not very unlikely to think if you have been a student and experienced how evil and deceiving they are. They will give you a list of places to apply for scholarships, all of which will say they are not going to help you (I believe this is also a scam created by the school). My fiancé went to P.A.T for the Plumbing and Gas 3 combined course. Like others have said, they make the school sound like they are helping you out. That they will find you a job (only if you graduate with a certain average) and that you will be making big money right after "graduation" (which was a BBQ in the industrial parking lot with no name hot dogs and no name pops which had to be purchased if you were thirsty) The graduation is not important it is just yet another example of how P.A.T wants your money and could care less about you. Anyway, my fiancé was a "student" there throughout the building move they made across the street. For weeks they had the students working on an old door, laid insecurely across 2 garbage bins which they used as desks!!!!! With students paying 7 grand out of pocket this is UNACCEPTABLE!!!! The classes always started late and ended early. Eventually, one entire day got scrapped out of the schedule and his class was asked to attend 4 days instead of 5 at only 3-4 hours a day. After successfully completing the course he was awarded a leadership award, which we had to fight with the school for 2 months after graduating to receive. They had the wrong mailing address so we didn't ever receive even a graduate certificate. We had to take the initiative to call the school and set up a date to come pick it up (we live 45 minutes away so we wanted to make sure someone would be there.) If you know the school, you can predict that when we arrived no one had any idea we were coming and his papers were nowhere to be found. THESE THIEVES ONLY WANT YOUR MONEY!!! After many complaints to the CEO of the school he got his papers (all employees; secretaries, teachers, even the CEO's are very unprofessional). He was not set up with a job after finishing the course although he achieved a leadership award and the highest average. He took this very seriously and unfortunately wasn't treated the same. He has a well paying job now but only due to his own wit and initiative.
After my long rant, I hope anyone looking to enroll saves their money and stays away. Please, do not get scammed by these a**holes!! And to anyone working or associated with this "institute” I hope karma comes around and kicks you in the a**!!!!!!

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