I can't really state the current status of any other Concorde Career Colleges except for the North Hollywood Vocational Nursing program - but my opinion is if you can goto any other school, I would highly suggest it. I'm currently in my 3rd term and I have seen instructors come and go - for the ones that do stay they are the most selfish and watch only their backs. They have no passion for teaching and they do not care about the students success. If a student has something to say about test results or anything extra the instructor needs to do (since most of them work other jobs) they frawn about it, and they label you a problem student. They have endless testing and if you make a few mistakes you are kicked out of the program. If you have any sort of learning disability I suggest you look for another school - the school does not care about you. If I knew this school was going to be like this, I would've never invested my hard earned money of $30,000 (yes, thirty thousand dollars for 14 months) of this nonsense. I feel like such a drop in the bucket and I am doing my best to not get kicked out by reading the book non stop - dont expect the instructors to teach you the testing material. Whatever they are lecturing its 90% irreleavant to the testing materials so during class most of the student read and study on their own. This journey to become a nurse has become a misery to become a nurse. I can only hope and have strength to keep up with the work, because as a person with a learning disability from a childhood head injury I feel short handed because of the lack of visual learning. All they care about is test after test with pointless lectures about how "When I was in school, we had to do such and such and nonsense."
**My advice, if you can handle the journey of a few years to an RN license I'd say go for it! If you can't wait and need to get a LVN/LPN license I'd suggest going to many different schools and talking to the nursing students and get actually imput. Don't rely on the recruiters, they also only care about the money. Don't ever get it twisted (confused) from there attentiveness to kindness. It's not personal its business. When did it get like this, I thought the nurses were suppose to have a holistic approach and to help everyone. GFG.

