Marinello Schools of Beauty

As a student I am giving this campus one star. I would give negative 5 if possible!
The receptionist, who is responsible for giving clients to students; is biased and only gives «good students» clients. We can’t all become great cosmos, nail techs and hair designers without practice. Several students would get one client a week! While others received several a day. This is NOT the students or teachers fault. This falls on the receptionist who is stuck in her ways, disrespectful, unprofessional and biased.
Mrs. Iris is the BEST teacher and is the glue holding this terrible campus together. As being a student who was professional and took the start of my career very seriously, it’s stressful to deal with the ghetto students, staff and clientele that comes in. It’s a dirty salon and doesn’t stop their! Ask the stylist when the last time they disinfected their tools was… it’s suppose to be after every service but I can assure you, not every student is cleaning every implement after every service.
I wrote a very detailed letter of my complaints to Marinello’s corporate office and they are just as unorganized as this location! I never heard anything back about my complaint and it took over 3 months for me to receive my certificate of completion after I graduated. I paid well over $ 5,000 of my own tuition and am in debt by another $ 10,000 because of this school and I wish I would have gone somewhere else! I wish I could get a refund because my education surely wasn’t worth $ 15,000! I wasn’t invited to the first graduation ceremony that I rightfully deserved because the receptionist who invited everyone else on Facebook, wasn’t friends with me so I had no idea. But Marinello does have my physical home address, phone number and email… why weren’t these methods used to contact me? I’m not sure. But there is another ceremony in July and I will be invited to that one! Well it’s July 16^th and I still haven’t heard anything about my ceremony that I worked and paid for.
It took over 6 weeks to refund my licensing fees and every week when I called about it, there was a different excuse. «The lady at corporate is on vacation so it’s been sitting on her desk for a week» «No one has gotten back to me about it yet» «Oh honey, the computers at corporate are down this whole week!» «Now our computers are down at the campus this week» they finally wrote a cash receipt and paid me thru the register.
This school has hired incompetent teachers and enrolled ghetto students in my year long experience at Marinello. Favoritism runs throughout that campus and it’s sickening. I am luckily now licensed and an employed hair stylist. Which the career counselor did not help me find. I contacted him within one month of graduating, he took a week to return my call and simply reworded my resume. I sent out my own resume, got my own job interviews and landed a job on my own without the help of Marinello. Or even a follow up call from the career counselor.
Marinello taught me the foundation I needed to become a licensed and professional hair designer but when I was enrolled my teacher was fabulous! As my time ended at Marinello, the good teachers were leaving one by one and this campus has dwindled to shit.
My education is something I’ve always taken seriously and this school makes a mockery of any educational institution. I am enraged that I owe thousands of dollars to a school who isn’t even worth $ 20.