Cornerstone International College

I WISH I WOULD HAVE UnilocalED THIS SCHOOL BEFORE WE ENROLLED MY HUSBAND. Worse school ever. My husband enrolled into this school about 2 years ago. The hope was he was going to be able to move right in to work post externship. Well, 2 years later and still not working as a sterile tech. They made empty promises, making us believe he would find work quickly. They sure were good at collecting our tuition of 600 or so a week. But once the schooling ended, they disappeared and no help with finding a job. He did most of his school work online and at home independently, no help from the school. What a waste of money and energy. He called to ask for volunteer and externship again to try and improve his skills and have better options to apply. Nope. They said they could not help. More importantly, the people running this place have changed numerous times. That tells you something if the staff do not stay. ZERO STARS. DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY. FIND A REAL SCHOOL

First and foremost Please research the position before spend money on a school. Second do not pick this school they do not help with placement at all and once you graduate they forget about you.
The teachers are great and help you learn, the knowledge they have is good and will benefit you when you do get placed but the time in between just keep your books so you don’t forget what you learned.

If you want to become a Sterile Processing Technician, DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME AND MONEY AT THIS SCHOOL. 1 of the main reasons I chose to attend this school was because they assured me they would help me get an internship. It’s been almost 3 years not and still nothing. Plus I’m not the only victim my classmates and prior classes to my class was fooled as well. And they are not even accredited by the Better Business Bureau. I’m very disappointed that I have fell for their scam but it is what it is. Nobody will help you but yourself. And that’s just for the SPT class I don’t know about the other classes. Although they ruined my college experience for me. I still and really want to work as a SPT although we NEED experience.

So as I posted before I was waiting for my last check. I received it today finally after 4 months! But not after being yelled at by cecilio yesterday! Yes that’s right he yelled and screamed at me! «We gave you your freaking money already! Nobody likes to talk to you nobody wants to answer your call!» Haha can you believe it?! He said I was frustrating him! Was it his $$ nope so he didn’t care at all! Cecilio is not only unprofessional, and rude he a scammer! I hope the worst for him and that school (if you can even call it that)!

This place is very disorganized and seem to not know what they are doing. I would not recommend this school to anyone and I didn’t even attend it! My boyfriend did and they lagged a lot with getting him into his internship. Horrible school.

I just want to start off by saying the teacher I had was excellent. Always so understanding. Never left a student behind if he or she did not understand the material. And made learning fun. The office staff are so unbelievably unprofessional. I agree with the previous posting that it just seems so unorganized at times. I had an appointment with one of their staff members, but when I arrived she kept stating she was about to leave and that I almost missed her. How could I miss her when I arrived 15 mins early to an scheduled appt?! Not only that I’ve been out of school for almost a year now and have yet to get a externship. When suposedly it takes only about 3 months to place you. Really disappointed right now. If I had to do this all over again I would have gone to a different school.

Learned a great deal on this school and proud to be part of Cornerstone!!! The staff CECILIO and teacher Gerald is AWESOME. very helpful on achieving your goal but its up to you if you want to succeed thou. More power Cornerstone, Its not just about the money, some people didnt relaize how helpful Cecilio is. He help some of my classmates who has a financial burden. for me thats something!

Waste of money and time. All they want is your money. When they need your money they will keep bugging you but when you need them it takes forever to get a hold
of them. You will never learn anything from this school so don’t waste your time and money! Ghetto school.

I attended the Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) course at Cornerstone.
THE GOOD:
+ The course I took was 19 days (Mon through Fri), so I was done in four weeks — pretty much the shortest CNA course there is out there! There’s also a nights and weekends option.
+ Our instructor, Gerald, is an RN and was really committed to helping us succeed and pass the state certification exam.
+ A bonus is that Cornerstone is an official testing site for the certification exam, so when it’s exam time, you’re already familiar with the setting and the materials because you’ve practiced with them as a Cornerstone student.
+ Gerald’s students have about a 95% passing rate for the state CNA exam!
+ The facility is pretty decent (formerly a middle school campus) and in relatively good shape
+ If you talk to Maricel in the Cornerstone office, she will help you try to find a job and pass your resume around.
THE BAD:
— The CNA book they gave us was ghetto… some of the information in there wasn’t the exact procedure we needed to know for the state exam. So we had to cross out some things & take lots of notes on what we *were* supposed to do for the exam.
— Cornerstone seemed quite disorganized at times. Maybe we were just unlucky because they had just relocated & things were chaotic, but still it seemed unprofessional at times. For example:
* The start date for our class got delayed by 1 week because of the relocation… but they didn’t tell us until the week before the class was supposed to start.
* One of our class days was postponed, so we had to make it up later — so instead of finishing the program on a Thursday, it was extended to a Friday. Again, they didn’t let us know until two days before the canceled class.
* There was a Resume Workshop & Job Fair Day, but only 3 out of ~10 employers actually showed up. Disappointing. So a lot of the students hung around the whole afternoon, waiting for the employers to show up, but when Cornerstone found out that the other employers weren’t coming, they didn’t announce it to everyone, so a lot of people wasted their time waiting around for nothing.
BOTTOM LINE:
If you want a fast CNA course, consider the 19-​day weekday course with Gerald. It’s 8am-4:30pm for the first 1.5 weeks (classroom portion), and then it’s 7am-3:30pm for the remainder of the course (clinical portion — held at a nearby nursing home).
Just be sure to talk to multiple people and confirm-​confirm-​confirm so that you get your facts straight about the dates and such. And be flexible, because they might change something last moment.