READ THIS BEFORE YOU APPLY TO THE LPN PROGRAM I am making this post because I don't want anyone else having to go into this Without knowing exactly what this program and school are like. 1. If you are expecting to pay for someone to actually teach you, this is not the place for you. The teachers here literally do not want to teach, probably because they have no idea how to. Only one of the actually cared, and when she lectured, we actually learned and had class discussions about the topics at hand. The rest would either A) split up part of a chapter and have the class make posters all day and then present to the class, B)split up a chapter (med surg chapters, so think disorders, nursing interventions, and meds, pretty important stuff that I don't believe students who have no prior knowledge or experience should be teaching other students in the same class, isn't that why the instructors are there for?) C) get the senior class to teach it to the class behind them. There were unfortunately very few times that we got a lecture. 2. The head teacher is a bully, and she likes to play favorites. Lord help you if you get on her bad side. Singles out students, makes fun of them, talks about them to OTHER STUDENTS behind their backs. Certain rules apply to certain students but not others because she likes them. If you end up enrolling, do not trust her. She likes to power trip. A lot. If she doesn't get her way, she will play dirty till she does, and all the other teachers, including people above her seem scared of her for some reason. 3. Grades are messed with. Again, if you do or say anything that upsets a certain someone, grades mysteriously suffer. Doesn't help that you cannot see your test grades unless you fail it. So you never really ever know what you got wrong. And this isn't just coming from student experience. People in the office warned us about her and the grades. 4. They are just as bad at teaching skills as they are lecturing. Complete disorganization. No demonstrations. We were told to read the book and figure it out. If we asked them a question, they would yell at us to look in the book. It was all in the book. The book was our teacher. Are you doing it wrong? Who knows? We can't ask the book questions, can we? Some students asked if they could please demonstrate for the class first and then have us practice, they would say no. "That's not the way it works in the real world" or "no one is going to show you how to do this in the hospital, if you don't know, you have to go and figure it out". Yeeeaaa... pretty sure patients and their families don't want you to "figure it out" at the hospital, but ok. 5. Speaking of skills, let's talk about clinicals. So, you learned all these skills in class, and clinical is the time to get your hands dirty and reinforce the skills you learned, right? Nope! Can't give shots, can't pass med, can't take vitals, can't do anything, except practice CNA skills. We saw other nursing students from other schools get assigned to a nurse and do everything with the RN, but not us. We were not allowed to. 6. The school administration is a joke. They knew about the bullying, they knew about the retaliation, they knew absolutely everything that was going on upstairs, but they didn't care. Kept telling us that they were working on fixing the situation, nothing ever happened. They don't care. I have never in my life seen more incompetent people working in a school than this one. 7. Although the school promotes itself as a "college", expect to be treated like a middle schooler. While I do understand that there are dual enrollment students at the school (high schoolers), that is no reason to treat grown adult student like children. You will be talked down to. A LOT. Literally no respect whatsoever. Sometimes you even forget that you are an adult in this place. Valencia and Seminole also have dual enrollment, and everyone is treated in a professional manner, regardless of your age, so that is no excuse. 8. Disorganization rules this school. In the class, downstairs, everywhere. Tests are announced last minute, or you are given literally days to read and learn a whole med surg chapter (50-90+ pages each). 9. Let's talk pharmacology. Very important in nursing. We never ever ever EVER had a single pharmacology lecture. AT ALL! Never! All we got were packets. That's it. So that pharm class on your class schedule, forget about it. Doesn't exist. The meds we did learn, we learned in the med surg chapters. That was the extent of our exposure to pharm. I wanted to write this so other people know exactly what they are getting into, because I wish I had known, so I could have made an informed decision ( run for the hills!). There was so very little information available, and had I known about the toxic environment that I would be getting myself into, I would have never ever gone to this "college". read more

I am a student at the Avalon campus & really enjoy the Web Design program. I started in November of 2010 & have been a full time student since then with a break over the summer. I have learned so much!!! A great program that is self taught so if you are used to instructors teaching you than this program isn't for you. It's a very fast & cheap program for Web Design with great results. read more

Extremely disorganized, staff smoke on campus, some instructors ACTIVELY try and get you to leave the school for others (ex. Valencia) Very disappointed in the IT program as well, all curriculum has been down since the start of the newest semester, it's been two weeks and the servers are still not up. Surprised they can keep the lights on let alone run a school. Will be finishing my program here and will not be extending my education any further at this school, they treat adults like children. read more

My original review got "restricted and hidden," so I am re-writing it. Hopefully, this won't "offend" anyone. I am currently enrolled in the Web Development Course. Like Katy M. said in a prior Yelp review of Winter Park Tech, this course (and many others) are "self paced." In other words, the student is teaching himself! Can a place that throws a book at a student and expects him to teach himself really be called a school? Students at W.P.T. are in class with people who started the course up to a year before. The entire class is not at the same point in the course so the teacher can't lecture, even if the desire to lecture was there. The students who are doing well in the program are the people who come to the course with prior experience in the programs. They say they came to get some sort of certification to make it easier for them to find a job, but they knew the material before coming into the class! Like Katy M. said, if you are fine with the idea of teaching yourself, you won't mind W.P.T. If you want to be taught something by a professional and engaged teacher, you will not get that at W.P.T. I regret ever having enrolled at Winter Park Tech. read more

I attended the winter Park Tech Avalon Campus. I was enrolled I the Massage therapy program. I muddled through the first two months at he school, even though I had a Masters in Nursing I still had a difficult time in processing the information that was being asked of me. I also have to give mush credit to the instructor, MS. Penny Marshall. There would be no program without her. The program is fast paced and a student coming out of high school would have advanced knowledge in anatomy and physiology, chemistry, biology, and holistic health to really be able to profit from this program. The information that is provided is far from what is needed to really understand the true concepts behind massage as a therapeutic treatment modality. If someone wants to learn massage to give a full and buff massage than this will do. however if you want to take this as a serious skill in providing care it is inadequate. unless you have previous knowledge in the topics previously discussed. But kudos to Ms. Penny you are truly wonderful. You do the work of three instructors!!! To rate the school I would have to say 2. The instructor is a five. That would give an average of 2.5. Rounded up to 3 ,or down to 2. I will select 3. read more