CDI College

Worst decision of my life: My storyOn June 28, 2021, I began studies at CDI College Online through Surrey, British Columbia for their Veterinary Health Care Assistant Program. If all went according to plan, I would have received a diploma in approximately 40 weeks. I would have graduated on April 8, 2022. I dream of working in a veterinary clinic alongside other technicians, assistants and veterinary doctors, however, because of CDI College's inability to provide proper education and support, I am now unable to.I withdrew from my program at CDI College on August 26, 2021 due to no instruction, lack of support from instructors and technical teams, and broken course links and textbooks. CDI College was to provide the education and support and failed to do so. While I was studying, I made it very apparent to CDI that there were technical issues that needed to be fixed and they never were. I called CDI many times and there was no answer. Multiple times I demanded the contact information of a CEO or dean and CDI College refused to give me that information. CDI did not take into consideration how these technical issues were affecting my learning. I could not proceed in the course and therefore the program. I waited nearly two weeks for a new instructor to be hired after the current one suddenly quit. By the time two new instructors and a teacher's assistant were hired, course textbooks and links were still broken, so I made my final decision to withdraw from the program.After that, CDI required that I pay $6,289.19 for the amount that I had completed. I completed 6 out of 28 courses in the program, 89 out of 813 hours, which makes up to be 9.13% of the entire program. This means that, according to the Student Enrollment Agreement, CDI is only entitled to “up to 30%” of the tuition money I had paid. However, according to CDI, I attended 19% of the program which isn't the case. I couldn’t complete that amount due to the issues. I brought my concerns to CDI right away after I signed the withdrawal papers. CDI did not answer my questions.It has now been 1 year and 5 months since I have been trying to acquire the tuition funds that I am owed. CDI also broke their own Dispute Policy. CDI has been extremely unhelpful and ignores me and the questions I present to them. After withdrawing from CDI College and not receiving any sort of help from CDI College itself, I have contacted many other outside parties for help on how to deal with the matter. These parties include Better Business Bureau (CDI College ignored my response), Calgary SLA The British Columbia Ombudsman, British Columbia AEST, CBC Marketplace, and multiple lawyers in the Calgary area.On September 1, 2022, I gained the contact information for CDI College Surrey, British Columbia’s Campus Directors, Rishi Karia and Davendier Dhaliwal. I explained my situation many times and it took them over 2 months to come to a resolution that CDI College could refund me $2195.80. I accepted, and now (as of Feb 2023) CDI is withholding this money.I am extremely hurt, frustrated, angry and sad by CDI College’s wrongdoings. All I wanted was to get an education online through CDI College, receive my diploma and become a veterinary assistant. But now I have a student loan sitting on my shoulders that I have absolutely nothing to show for. Every day I think about how CDI College has done me wrong and how I can receive the tuition money back as I’m entitled to it. As I said, it has been over a year since I have been dealing with this issue and still no resolution. CDI College promised me great education to set me up in life but they are doing the opposite of that. I had paid for the education and CDI College failed to provide it to me.If you are thinking of enrolling in CDI College I recommend you take your time and money elsewhere. I have never been so dissatisfied with a company in my life and that says a lot. CDI College should be shut down. They don’t care about your well-being, or your education—as long as they are getting paid it’s okay right? Wrong. This ends now.

I really enjoyed my time in this campus when I took my Dental Assisting course. My homeroom teacher was Leonarda and she was AMAZING. Leo was our “mother” in our class, because whenever we had problems, she was always the first person we’d run to and she was always open ears. She is sweet and a loving teacher, and we will never forget the good times we had with her in the clinic.Aside from her, Liza and Anne were also great at their job. Liza is serious when it comes to class times, but when she’s not teaching, she’s fun and hilarious. There’s one memory that I will never forget with her and that’s when I had a talk with her and she found out I was not doing well in class. She called me over and asked me if there was anything that’s stopping me from doing good in class and I told her my side. After that talk, I got back on my feet and the rest was history.Anne, is a passionate teacher. Coming from a morning class, whenever we had her as a teacher, her energy would just rub off because of her enthusiasm. I sometimes don’t understand how she has all those energy, because I remember I was always tired in the class and whenever I hear those heels walk in the hallway, you know the class is going to be fun!Kanav is nothing but extraordinary. He was the first teacher we had for theory and there was no time that he never made a joke. He set the mood for the class and made us laugh our butts off with his jokes. I also like how teaches, because he would never continue the class until everyone gets what he’s trying to say.All in all, the teachers were amazing. They all did their part as a teacher and pushed us to become a disciplined CDA. There were times where they were pushy, and that’s because we were slacking or we were running behind our classes. And because of them, my class made another milestone, by achieving a 100% passing rate on the NDAEB for the ninth time.You know these instructors are the REAL DEAL.I would give this a 5 star, but I had problems with the finance staff. I’ve been going back and forth with them regarding with the referral money and still today, even though I gave graduated, the referral money was still not given.P.S. to the big boss who’s reading this, I just want you to know that the instructors I mentioned above are hands down the best instructors I had in my class and I had never had a problem with them. If there was anyone who’s complaining about them, just know that those students who are complaining are weak minded, spoiled brats, who are just trying to get a free pass and they might be the reason why you guys will have a bad reputation in the future.

I attended this school a year ago and have only great things to say about my experience. Teachers are passionate about seeing their students succeed. If you are looking into enrolling I recommend you to stop in for a tour. Angela is amazing teacher as she truly cares about every student and is very thorough with her teaching style. Mary the ECG teacher is a gem, also enjoyed her teaching style.

I am disappointed in the school's management system. My friend referred me to the course and she will receive $300 from the school. From the very beginning, I mentioned the problem to the people who supported me to join the course but stopped until the end of the course my friend still did not receive the bonus from the school. It's ridiculous, they pushed each other the responsibility and asked me to show text message proof that my friend preferred me.

Yesterday was my wife graduation with 93% grade . She was supposed to be called honored student but they didn’t do that .it was supposed to find the job for her in six months, but they didn’t, she found the job by herself,not recommended.

I took the Business and Digital Marketing course here, some cons I would give is that some of the exams had typos (some of which were typos that could've completely changed the answer to some questions or left them incomprehensible), some questions were outdated/weren't included in the textbook anymore. The e-campus website can also be more user-friendly". Found it difficult to navigate and thought it was ironic that it was a platform used to teach us effective website building yet was lacking in it's own website.In regards to the staff

I made the decision to enroll in CDI for MLA, because of the attention I received on the phone (Lina Basit) was very attentive and clearly answered each of my questions.After enrolling, I started to see some unfavorable comments on social media but I still went in to study, and it was a good decision to study here.The instructors I have had in Burnaby so far (Mohammad, Yassaman and Azadeh) have been excellent, with many qualities and always making the student reach the goals of each subject, it is a lot of information, not is easy , they are strict but is as it should be.The administrative department is always ready to help us.My personal experience has been very favorable.

!!!!!PLEASE DO NOT ATTEND OR GET A STUDENT LOAN FOR THIS COLLEGE!!!!!CDI really needs to update their strategies as they proclaim one thing, preform another and are really only accredited to take your money with nothing to show for it.I took the Paralegal Diploma and I thought I did my due diligence and researched the school, but like the old saying, to go to be true

I feel so disappointed with this school. I took the Social Service worker course with Odessa and Rodrigo. The teachers did an amazing job, but the school itself failed me. Besides the books being a decade old, and no sign of truth and reconciliation. My problem was with the school itself.I originally met with Aditya Soni on July 8,2021 because I was interested in going back to school. During this first meeting I had mentioned to him I’m a single mom with not alot of help but I’m willing to put in the work. But it’s all new to me. I had said no son isn’t in day care or anything and he assured me we’d figure it all out. He signed me up within minutes and I was signed up within the hour.I had also mentioned that I didn’t have a lap top and didn’t know much about online classes. Again he assured me everything will be fine. He had told me my start date and with non stop assurance I was out the door signed up for class the following Monday.I had went into this meeting thinking I’d get info only. It felt super rushed.No computer and classes starting within days I was so stressed. Then when I started class I was mid module. I felt like I was set up for failure. (I wasn’t the only one who start in chaos, after talking with classmates they helped me fit in and get caught up.)Fast forward, I finish my book work, I felt I did amazing. Was proud of my grades.Found my own practicum placement and was ready for the next step.Being a new mom, single mom I didn’t have child care (something I brought up in first meeting. But was assured it will all be taken care of and not to worry)So I applied for 3 different day cares but they all had waiting lists that were a year long. So I go to the school and ask if they knew what I could do, and they said they didn’t know. And since I can’t find child care they would close my school account until I can get child care. No helped offered.I truly felt the rushed me into paying for this course, but didn’t care if I Graduated. Because I haven’t heard from the since and I’m looking into finishing my schooling (practicum) at a different school. This campus doesn’t care for their students. It was clear throughout this course, I won’t speak for others but I know some of the students in my class went through their own issues with the campus.I humbly acknowledge that I am unlearning and relearning on the unceded, unsurrendered, traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh nations. With the acknowledgement comes the commitment to engage in conscious acts of reconciliation.

I took the Legal Administration program online and loved it, I had some difficulties with certain teachers not being available to discuss questions regarding assignments, however my student advisor helped me so much getting me connected with people that could help. I also had some difficulties with 1 teacher who was completely absent until after the exam I ended up failing the course as a result of me not understanding the accounting class as formulas given were incorrect or assignments had little to no instructions, when I finally reached out to the teacher she was rude, I got in touch with my academic advisor who was able to meet with the teacher and provide me the guidance I needed to retake the exam and pass the class with flying colours. The day I graduated I was hired at Simcoe Court Reporting being a court reporter, after 2 months I was promoted to office manager. I am currently looking at going back to CDI for Paralegal come the fall!I would recommend this school to anyone looking to higher their education!The only thing that sucked was not having a graduation ceremony but that’s a result of COVID not the school!Obyda Abdul made the entire process seamless! He answered every question gave me so much information and guided me through every single step!! I was initially going back and forth between 2 programs and he was able to help make the decision based on the amount of time he spent listening to what I wanted to do with my degree! 10/10 recommend him to anyone looking for information on programs!!