This was an easy decision for my son. We toured all the state schools from NC State to WCU. My son…read moregot into all the ones he wanted to go to however the choice to go to WCU over "bigger names" schools was easy for him. It was all about people. He is looking forward to his time there.

Like Roger H--I'm a bit biased, but I am really happy to be affiliated with this place. The…read morefaculty are committed, the students are terrific, and the surroundings can't be beat. If you need to be in a place where there's a Target and a Best Buy around the corner, WCU's not for you, but if you want an excellent education at a great price in the prettiest place in the Southeast, you should check out WCU. If you're a tourist, be sure to check out the Fine and Performing Arts Center, the Mountain Heritage Center, or watch some Catamount athletics.

Daoist Traditions is the best choice for physical and emotional healing. The experts who over see…read morethe students are all top notch in their field. I chose this clinic instead of finding health care insurance. Best decision Ever. I went every week for 3 years... I have no way of expressing fully all the ways I got healing from these treatments. More affordable and much more effective than our health care system.

Caring and effective students who are supervised by experienced and equally kind practitioners. The…read moreappointments are either 1.5 or 2 hours. Thorough treatments! Great option for much lower cost care. Everyone is welcoming including the front desk staff. I go often to deal with different issues- from minor to serious. My mom LOVES the student clinic as well, and has 2 appointments during each of her week long visits to Asheville!

Attempting to attend South College was not a positive experience. I met with multiple employees…read moreduring the admissions process. Each employee assured me that I would have options on attending classes even though I have to work full time. I was very clear that I have no flexibility in my schedule, I have to work full time. I took two classes the first semester and then realized what they told me is not true. There is not a single program available where I could have continued working full time and attended classes successfully. I now have a $5,000 bill to pay for 2 classes that will not transfer anywhere else. I had so much hope about improving my circumstances and now they are $5,000 worse than they were previously. I would have never started something that I did not feel I could finish. I was not just misguided, I was downright lied to.

I made the mistake (many moons ago) of sitting down to chat with these people about potentially…read moretaking classes here. I chose not to. But they called me DAILY. RELENTLESSLY. FOR A YEAR. I had to change my number. Gross.

Avoid this institution at all costs. This "college" relies heavily on unpaid student labor to keep…read moreits operations running. My experience with staff such as Tacci Smith made learning here especially difficult. She frequently used incorrect pronouns for students and contributed to an environment that felt exclusionary and insensitive, which negatively affected the campus climate. She encouraged a student to harass me through text many times. Tuition is inflated so they can offer a supposedly "generous" financial aid package--most of which is simply compensation for the work students are required to perform. Academically, the campus falls short. Many professors lack true depth of knowledge in their subject areas, which is evident in programs like computer science, where instruction is consistently inadequate. I didn't learn how to write in MLA or APA7 until I transferred out of this "college". It is also concerning that this school offers degrees such as outdoor leadership but lacks any programs leading to licensure, including education or nursing. Students end up paying more than $25,000 a year for a liberal arts degree with credits that often do not transfer, pressuring them to remain at WWC to finish. In addition, the campus lacks ideological and ethnic diversity. The environment fosters a performative student body more focused on appearing loud and "socially aware" than on making meaningful change. Overall, WWC is definitely a degree mill where students learn nothing for a big price.

While I have good memories here and the students are very LGBTQ centered, the school does very…read morelittle to put effort into accommodating their students and also are not very good at organization. Hurricane Helene definitely has a bit to do with it but they also had issues before. If you want to go to this college, I'm not sure I'd recommend it. Limited class options, the dorms are not nice and honestly I've never seen a college with worse dorms than Warren Wilson. There's no parking and you walk a lot. They put a large emphasis on in person learning so if you're sick or have an emergency basically you're screwed.

Many of the Teachers do the bare minimum to teach a class. So many frustrations attending this…read moreschool. Many teachers don't appreciate good students and are rude. Find a better school.

First, I would like to say Ab-tech is a great place to complete your prerequisites. The teachers…read moreare great, it's affordable, convenient, what more can you ask for when it comes to prerequisites! The nursing program, however, I give it two-thumbs down, with the exception of two to three notably awesome and genuinely kind, I-want-you-to-succeed type instructors. For the past three years, between 30-50% of the class fail in the first semester of the two-year program. The semesters following lose up to ten students each semester. There is a high turnover rate of nursing instructors, as well as clinical instructors. In my experience, there is a good portion of instructors who have control issues. Meaning, if you don't address them by Mrs., Mr., or Ms., they will issue a SSIP (Student Self Improvement Plan), which requires you to write an essay on why you need to respect your superiors. SIPPs are issued for everything you do wrong. Don't get too many of those; otherwise you're out of the program. One semester I became severely ill with fever and the 'runs'. I used up all my allowed absences due to this illness. During this time I had a clinical rotation located on the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit). I contacted an instructor to get permission to avoid going to this clinical because I would be around some very sick babies. I was instructed to take an Imodium and go to avoid being removed from the program. I bet you if this instructor's baby was on the NICU, the answer would have been different. During one winter break, I broke my ankle. The nursing administrators told me I am not allowed to continue in the program due to my injury. As I was preparing an appeal, I spoke to an ab-tech instructor not affiliated with the nursing program, and I was informed the reason why I'm not being accommodated is because I'm a man. The Dean granted me two days of healing time, in which I was not able to walk by that time, so I had no choice but to quit the program. Ironically, two years later, after I entered the ADN nursing program, a girl in the final semester fractured her hip. She told me she was totally accommodated for: her clinical were switched around to avoid absences, plus, the nursing administrators told her if she doesn't heal in time, she could make up her clinical time the following summer semester. Maybe that non-nursing instructor was correct. Because I was one of the ten people who did not pass the final semester, I was forced to come back into the program the following year and repeat now two semesters per their policy and procedures. I was accepted back into the program and registered for the mother-baby class, however, my advisor placed me in two different classes, even though I only registered and paid for one. It could be an honest mistake, but it's probably a control issue... read on. When the school informed me to go on ahead and register for my final semester, my advisor prevented me in doing so. I could not register until she gave me the go ahead. I sent countless emails asking why I cannot register and everyone else can; I pleaded to her to allow me to take this class that had only three spots left. She did not respond to my emails until three weeks later, just three days before payment was due. Here are some quotes from instructors and clinical instructors directed towards students: - "I encourage you to drop the clock issue" sent in an email to me when I asked an instructor to provide a clock or a full timer for the test. - "I've heard you are a little miss know-it-all" statement to a very nice LPN student. - "You do realize I'm not going to pass you this semester" via clinical instructor. - "I became a teacher because I couldn't handle families of patients anymore." - "We are just waiting for those that have been barely passing to fail." Via nursing administrator. - "You are not on our radar list." Via class instructor. - "Those that did not pass the NCLEX last year were not surprised." Via class instructor. - "Go check on your patients, they could be dead for all we know." Yelled by a clinical instructor down a hall lined with patient rooms. Heard by patients, families, & staff. - "I can look into your student email account at any time." Said a nursing administrator. - "Students are not allowed to ask instructors to do things A.S.A.P." Via clinical instructor. - "I'll give you a second chance to earn a higher grade on your presentation, but you have to promise me you won't tell anyone this." Via a class instructor. - 'They' say school/instructor surveys are anonymous, however, I had an instructor sarcastically thank me for her review in an email. - If you ever have been fired from a hospital... after you pay tuition, the nursing administrators will then inform you that you cannot continue. - Emails are frequently misinterpreted by instructors, so please be super professional and positive, or else....

I'm sorry to see the poor reviews here! I graduated in 2018 and had an immensely positive…read moreexperience. Yes, the journey was challenging, and I wrestled with fatigue, frustration, feelings of inadequacy, and the need to blame- many times. However, I have the gift of hindsight now. The overall result of my education was a complete transformation of the way I look at the world. I have become a healer, in a world that is desperate for healing. I am so grateful for all of my teachers, and the faculty and administration at Daoist Traditions. I felt that each and every one of them cared about my education and wellbeing. I was a transfer student from a TCM school, and I also have many friends who attended other Chinese Medicine schools. I can honestly say that I feel my education was the best. The wealth of information and wisdom from Jeffrey Yuen is unparalleled, and the small cohort classroom setting was clutch (I am still very close most of my class). Daoist Traditions also did a great job of preparing for those pesky board exams. Upon graduating, I felt very prepared to start the next phase of my Path.

This is a review for Daoist Traditions the *School* (not the clinic, or visiting lecturers). Bottom…read moreline: if you are a prospective student, I strongly urge you to reconsider attending Daoist Traditions. I am a former student of the College; I began the Chinese Medicine program there in the fall of 2019. While I began the program with enthusiasm, and a great deal of confidence in the value of Chinese Medicine (which has been a tremendous help to me in my personal healing journey), I quickly became disillusioned, frustrated, depressed, and embittered by the school's approach to teaching what I still believe to be a beautiful and powerful medicine. Much of the school's approach to instruction seems taken straight out of a turn-of-the-century playbook (as in, coming out of the 1800s), except with powerpoint slides instead of a blackboard. Many long, dry hours were spent literally listening to instructors read text from slides, which had been copied word-for-word from our textbooks. Most students then copied this information into notebooks for later regurgitation on bi-weekly multiple choice exams. Rote memorization at its most blunt--I have never experienced "education" this one-dimensional, even in primary school. It is still stunning to me that this is considered graduate school. The administration "warned" us during orientation that there would be a great deal of memorization, and stuck to a hard party line that this type of teaching is unavoidable in learning Chinese Medicine. Maybe so. But still, how does that explain why our main teachers seemed unable to answer questions without parroting the textbook? Why most lectures offered little to no insight or illumination beyond the exact content of our assigned reading? Some students took to sitting in the back of the classroom and reading other (Chinese Medicine) books during class; maybe they had the right idea. By the 6th week of class the atmosphere in certain quarters of the first-year class was bordering on mutinous. The bitterness and frustration was so thick that, combined with relentless, repetitive cramming for nearly constant "exams" (all multiple-choice quizzes, basically) that the morale became very low. Unfortunately, talking to the 2nd, 3rd and 4th-year students didn't help; they almost universally agreed that the school had depleting effects on mental and physical health, and that burn-out was extremely common. Some students even expressed that they would have left but were too deeply invested financially to turn back. PLEASE consider the cost of this school: it would be justified if the quality of education were as high as the admissions office would like to suggest, but sadly, the evidence tells otherwise. By the end of the second semester of that first year, OVER HALF of our initial class of 33 had dropped out (including me). !!! Wow. Similar statistics were the case for the class that began the previous year (2018). Poor students, you might think? Weren't ready for grad school? Most of those students, I can say from personal academic interaction with them, were actually excellent students and highly qualified. Most of them are now continuing their Chinese Medicine studies elsewhere.... after paying Daoist Traditions College many thousands of dollars for "credits" that, for the most part, can't be transferred anywhere. Personally, after one semester at DT, I owe about $18,000 in student loans (the school is full-time, and I, like many, took out loans to pay for living expenses as well as tuition). As you do your homework, I advise checking into faculty turnover rates (high) and employee happiness, especially of administrative assistants, support staff, etc. (low). Some people say that this school has a "toxic culture". It would be difficult for me to disagree. I do believe that it is possible for graduates of Daoist Traditions to become good practitioners, and I wish all the best to my friends and colleagues who are current students or recent graduates. But to everyone else, I urge serious caution before beginning attendance at Daoist Traditions.