Richard J. Daley College, Chicago | Fees, Rankings, Address, Admission, Vacancies, Reviews & More

I’m going to be very blunt here, right off the bat I am not a fan of this school. I registered for fall classes because I qualified for a scholarship in a manufacturing degree. I have not been able to get a hold of anyone in the last 4 days in regards to my college transcripts to see if I do not have to take the placement tests. My student orientation was coming up this following Thursday and I have to reschedule it because I can’t get ahold of anyone and the only time they offer placement testing is during my work hours and they are not flexible or willing to accommodate to this. I cannot get ahold of anyone to see if I can skip this process to avoid this hassle. I have talked with people on the phone very rarely and when I do talk with people on the phone I always get some sort of attitude or I get redirected to somewhere else. Quite frankly I feel bad for anyone that goes to the school it has to pay for it. I would be extremely mad if I had to pay $25,000 over the course of two years getting an associates degree for the kind of service I have been receiving. If I wasn’t getting this scholarship for free I would have asked for a withdrawal at this point. This kind of service is unacceptable.

This isn’t factoring in that I had to tell the recruiter that was walking me through their manufacturing program that I wasn’t there for welding courses but for CNC courses multiple times. I had to repeat things to the recruiter several times because he wasn’t paying attention to what I was saying to him. A recruiter it’s supposed to sell the school on to me, like I said if I wasn’t getting these courses for free he would have turned me away instead of sold me on to it. His in inattention and the fact that I had to repeat to him several times what course I was going to take put a sour taste in my mouth. I’ve gone to multiple community colleges for classes and this is by far the most expensive and the most unorganized one I have seen so far

If there was a zero star option I would have chosen that. The application process was the worst I’ve ever encountered in all my years of helping students to enroll in college. The enrollment process at a school in another country was actually easier than dealing with the woefully misinformed, ignorant, rude and unprofessional staff at Daley. I wouldn’t recommend this school to anyone because of the unorganized application process. One staff member actually never heard of the satellite school – West Side Technical Institute. One staff member sent us to the wrong location. We sent emails of inquiry with no response, spent hours on hold, were disconnected several times and given incorrect information. It took months to obtain any useful information from the angry and tired staff. The registration day was a day of chaos and surly staff members. Such a shame because the classes are good.