After completeing my schooling at ITA it is fair to say i am EXTREMELY disappointed.
1. Dr. Doran will try to get as close to you as possible during the "interview" where she shows you around the school. She will talk up the school and make you feel like YOU are the perfect fit fer her school....she told me i was destine to go to school there...later to find out she said the same to all of my classmates.
2. Dr. Doran literally said she only lets pretty girls attend her school. She has said no indian over 40 is attractive.... she has made fun of how asian people have smaller eyes, called the bigger girls in our class out for being big... the list goes on and on
3. The teacher for book work is very very slow... beware for long days, long awkward pauses, and sitting around half the day doing nothing because the teachers get paid by the hour.
4. She promised a professional to teach the class about resumes, the job world..etc. The "professional" was her daughter..... who was also extremely rude and distasteful....acted like she was suprior to everyone.
5. ONE OF THE BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENTS: you will be promised a makeup class... everyone in my class left that day extemely discouraged.. we asked questions eagar to learn and the makeup artist was terrible. you will get a certification after learning NOTHING about makeup. my classmates and i even told dr doran we dont feel we deserve to be certified and would like to learn more. Dr. Doran's answer was she will not hire the same next year...lets see if she keps her word i highly doubt it since she doesnt care about her students makeup ability.
6.before graduating i had only practiced on 1 client. thats right. ONE SINGLE CLIENT!!!! there is no student spa! you practice on the same faces everyday getting no customer service experience.
7. Dr. Doran promises job placement... NO SUCH THING.... youre on your own after graduation GOOD LUCK! (she told one of the students after completing the esthetics program that she should have done medical assisting instead...she went through and told about 6/16 people they shouldnt have done esthetics but MA instead....ummm YOU TOLD US WE HAD TO DO ESTHETICS BEFORE MA)
8. SHE ASKED ALL OF US TO WRITE POSITIVE REVIEWS BEFORE GRADUATING! she said if we leave a negative review with our name on it we will not get a job so pretty much everyone didnt write one because there are very few positive things to say...hints why im writing this review here ahd not google
9. She makes you clean everything in the school...didnt seem bad at first until we are on our hands and knees scrubbing the floor with a clorox wipe. having to redue the beds/sheets to make sure it is placed in the exact centimeter she wants.... she literally MADE US PUT TOGETHER HUGE FACIAL MACHINES!!!! no one signed up for that!
10. she would out my classmates and say very personal things about their lives...learning disabilities, deaths, sickness, things people dont want to share...
11. Dr. Doran speaks poorly about other classmates to eachother... things like "shes stupid" "shes slow" "shes ignorant"
12. SAYS SHES A DERMATOLOGIST BUT NEVER WAS IN THE USA..... do not let her trick you into thinking that
13. the best part of my whole experience was graduation.... we all sat in the lunch conference room for 2 hours... no family/friends allowed to come... and listened to DR. DORAN insult every single one of us. She told one that she was late all the time and was very distracting to the class, one that she talks too much, one that she had a mean face....etc. All of us girls went to lunch after and discussed how we couldnt believe the things she said and how we all felt played by that school.
the list could go on and on and on... my point is i am so utterly displeased with my choice to attend school here. i dreaded it everyday. i felt like i was played into thinking this is an amazing place with the best students and best teachers.... reality is DR. DORAN JUST WANTS YOUR MONEY SHE JUST WANTS TO KEEP HER SCHOOL UP AND RUNNING SO SHE CAN HAVE MORE MONEY IN HER POCKET......
one last thing dr doran offered everyone in my class a HUGE discount to attend the medical assisting program after we graduated and only one person did it. a class of 16 people and in the beginning of the esthetics program everyone was planning to do MA FULL PRICE. she begged all of us with a discount!!!! multiple times she sat down the class and said we reaaallllyyy need to do this. SO GLAD I DIDNT I HAVE A WAY BETTER MA SCHOOL FOR LESS MONEY AND THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME!
IF I CAN SAVE SOMEONE FROM WASTING THEIR MONEY ON A CHEAP SCHOOL MAKING FALSE PROMISES AND MANIPULATING ITS STUDENTS THEN I WILL!!! PLEASE DO NOT ATTEND INTERNATIONAL TRAINING ACADEMY!!!
Doran woos students in with praise and stories by past students of their success, once she gets your money she targets certain students and tells personal things about them in public some of which are or maybe illegal disclosures. She will build you up then cut you down.
Everyone is afraid of her. She was using the title Dr illegally and fined because she is NOT a Dr in the US She alleges she was a doctor in Russia.
Read the contract you sign very carefully, she charges cash fines for missing tests or days of school! Several students quit during the program. Education wise she is very smart but she has no ethics. There is NO privacy for students. Be prepared to get a Brazilian wax in front of everyone in class, seeing your v****a spread wide open!
She lied and only let her favorite students work on the public
I would advise anyone to check out any other school where there are private areas for students and the public to get services. She also let a bunch of new students start in the middle of our session so we were advanced and had new students bothering us. The classes became too big, it was hard to learn then but she did not care it's all about making the almighty $$$$$
The students have to clean the school every day. she says this is too teach sanitation but it's really because she is too cheap to hire a clean up crew!
She said very inappropriate things about students personal lives and cut down others. Vile things I can't repeat for privacy of those concerned.
Her favorite students would do well on tests because she would give sample test questions before hand. She may have said we were investigated because of higher scores. She's a cruel and evil woman
International Skin Beauty Academy Reviews
After completeing my schooling at ITA it is fair to say i am EXTREMELY disappointed.
1. Dr. Doran will try to get as close to you as possible during the "interview" where she shows you around the school. She will talk up the school and make you feel like YOU are the perfect fit fer her school....she told me i was destine to go to school there...later to find out she said the same to all of my classmates.
2. Dr. Doran literally said she only lets pretty girls attend her school. She has said no indian over 40 is attractive.... she has made fun of how asian people have smaller eyes, called the bigger girls in our class out for being big... the list goes on and on
3. The teacher for book work is very very slow... beware for long days, long awkward pauses, and sitting around half the day doing nothing because the teachers get paid by the hour.
4. She promised a professional to teach the class about resumes, the job world..etc. The "professional" was her daughter..... who was also extremely rude and distasteful....acted like she was suprior to everyone.
5. ONE OF THE BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENTS: you will be promised a makeup class... everyone in my class left that day extemely discouraged.. we asked questions eagar to learn and the makeup artist was terrible. you will get a certification after learning NOTHING about makeup. my classmates and i even told dr doran we dont feel we deserve to be certified and would like to learn more. Dr. Doran's answer was she will not hire the same next year...lets see if she keps her word i highly doubt it since she doesnt care about her students makeup ability.
6.before graduating i had only practiced on 1 client. thats right. ONE SINGLE CLIENT!!!! there is no student spa! you practice on the same faces everyday getting no customer service experience.
7. Dr. Doran promises job placement... NO SUCH THING.... youre on your own after graduation GOOD LUCK! (she told one of the students after completing the esthetics program that she should have done medical assisting instead...she went through and told about 6/16 people they shouldnt have done esthetics but MA instead....ummm YOU TOLD US WE HAD TO DO ESTHETICS BEFORE MA)
8. SHE ASKED ALL OF US TO WRITE POSITIVE REVIEWS BEFORE GRADUATING! she said if we leave a negative review with our name on it we will not get a job so pretty much everyone didnt write one because there are very few positive things to say...hints why im writing this review here ahd not google
9. She makes you clean everything in the school...didnt seem bad at first until we are on our hands and knees scrubbing the floor with a clorox wipe. having to redue the beds/sheets to make sure it is placed in the exact centimeter she wants.... she literally MADE US PUT TOGETHER HUGE FACIAL MACHINES!!!! no one signed up for that!
10. she would out my classmates and say very personal things about their lives...learning disabilities, deaths, sickness, things people dont want to share...
11. Dr. Doran speaks poorly about other classmates to eachother... things like "shes stupid" "shes slow" "shes ignorant"
12. SAYS SHES A DERMATOLOGIST BUT NEVER WAS IN THE USA..... do not let her trick you into thinking that
13. the best part of my whole experience was graduation.... we all sat in the lunch conference room for 2 hours... no family/friends allowed to come... and listened to DR. DORAN insult every single one of us. She told one that she was late all the time and was very distracting to the class, one that she talks too much, one that she had a mean face....etc. All of us girls went to lunch after and discussed how we couldnt believe the things she said and how we all felt played by that school.
the list could go on and on and on... my point is i am so utterly displeased with my choice to attend school here. i dreaded it everyday. i felt like i was played into thinking this is an amazing place with the best students and best teachers.... reality is DR. DORAN JUST WANTS YOUR MONEY SHE JUST WANTS TO KEEP HER SCHOOL UP AND RUNNING SO SHE CAN HAVE MORE MONEY IN HER POCKET......
one last thing dr doran offered everyone in my class a HUGE discount to attend the medical assisting program after we graduated and only one person did it. a class of 16 people and in the beginning of the esthetics program everyone was planning to do MA FULL PRICE. she begged all of us with a discount!!!! multiple times she sat down the class and said we reaaallllyyy need to do this. SO GLAD I DIDNT I HAVE A WAY BETTER MA SCHOOL FOR LESS MONEY AND THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME!
IF I CAN SAVE SOMEONE FROM WASTING THEIR MONEY ON A CHEAP SCHOOL MAKING FALSE PROMISES AND MANIPULATING ITS STUDENTS THEN I WILL!!! PLEASE DO NOT ATTEND INTERNATIONAL TRAINING ACADEMY!!!
Doran woos students in with praise and stories by past students of their success, once she gets your money she targets certain students and tells personal things about them in public some of which are or maybe illegal disclosures. She will build you up then cut you down.
Everyone is afraid of her. She was using the title Dr illegally and fined because she is NOT a Dr in the US She alleges she was a doctor in Russia.
Read the contract you sign very carefully, she charges cash fines for missing tests or days of school! Several students quit during the program. Education wise she is very smart but she has no ethics. There is NO privacy for students. Be prepared to get a Brazilian wax in front of everyone in class, seeing your v****a spread wide open!
She lied and only let her favorite students work on the public
I would advise anyone to check out any other school where there are private areas for students and the public to get services. She also let a bunch of new students start in the middle of our session so we were advanced and had new students bothering us. The classes became too big, it was hard to learn then but she did not care it's all about making the almighty $$$$$
The students have to clean the school every day. she says this is too teach sanitation but it's really because she is too cheap to hire a clean up crew!
She said very inappropriate things about students personal lives and cut down others. Vile things I can't repeat for privacy of those concerned.
Her favorite students would do well on tests because she would give sample test questions before hand. She may have said we were investigated because of higher scores. She's a cruel and evil woman
No Better Business Bureau rating. Wonder why....