I was just about to register for Haverhill and decided to google more info on them then came up with this. I will not be registering with them anymore thanks to this info you provided on this site. I am wondering however, which staging school should I go to? Any recommendations on reputable staging courses??

What about this one?

http://www.csptraining.com/

NO training course of any legitimacy (online or otherwise) would offer such vague questions on an exam. If legitimate (to be charitable here), it is at the very least, very poorly designed.

Not letting students return to earlier questions in an online testing situation can be legitimate, provided that this instruction is clear from the start so that students can plot their time accordingly. Moreover, test designers have an obligation to carefully craft the wording and organization of their answers in such online testing scenarios.

Changing the grading criteria and/or rubric after the fact is a clear red flag- if these allegations are true… Caveat emptor! And good luck.

Then it came down to the test. I failed it so I actually called the President and said “you promised me that because I was sick you would grade my stuff and give me a break” She said I had to get in everything including the test by January 31 of this year, funny it said March, so they lied again. I had to have an 80% in order to get employment..I freaking got a 75%!! So I couldn’t be hired for 75%!! I am a over qualified Interior Designer and this test was the dumbest never made sense test I have ever taken! I got my certificate today, a f****** certificate for over $1500!! ALL TOTAL BS and the problem is, that it is wearing my marriage down because we both don’t work, ya know the crap economy…I put my entire life into this program and they got my money.

We need to join and get together and make sure no one does this. I hope your friend does well but they don’t hire and they don’t say what they promise, they lie and lie and lie and lie, plus considering I’m 49 years old I’m not a sore looser but this is the worst thing I ever did in my life!

I’d like to say by way of background information that I was a member of the National Honor Society and was on the National Dean’s list for every year that I was in college. I have never failed a test and can only offer suggestions to you so future students don’t fall victim to the same testing methods you are using now.
But let me start with your course curriculum. Wouldn’t it make more sense to teach the courses step by step? By that I mean:
1. Perform your Home Evaluation, take pictures, write your evaluation and recommendations and submit. I was completely confused by the “After” requirements. What was I supposed to do? Stage an entire home for my very first assignment having ONLY learned how to evaluate thus far???? This was very disheartening and defeating RIGHT at the beginning of my training.
2. De-cluttering would have made more sense if I hadn’t just completed a home in it’s entirety in Lesson one.
3. I would think the final assignment should be the totally stage home AFTER performing Lessons 1-4.

Any final exam I have ever taken has been categorized by chapter, that way ambiguous questions have SOME frame of reference. I was very annoyed by the lack of direction on the final exam. Since I foolishly did not memorize the entire book verbatim it was impossible for me to discern just what the questions were referring to. For instance the question:
“The difference between a _______and a ________ is the lack of __________.”
What the _________ was that question referring to? Had it been grouped together with other questions from the same chapter I might have been able to figure it out for myself rather than spending most of my 2 hour time limit frantically flipping through the book trying to find context. I could have put “man”, “woman” and “penis” in there and the sentence would technically have been correct. FYI – I later found the Haverhill answer because it was important enough to me to do so. I chose not to re-write the test because I couldn’t see a different outcome as I still had not memorized the book.
I am sorry that I was deemed ineligible to work for Haverhill because I was very excited about the prospect and liked what I learned about the company. I wish you and all your future graduates much success.

thanks again!!!

Thank you for being on top of this – I, and any true professional Stager, are grateful that the truth of who Haverhill is and what their real agenda is about are being revealed.

I just hope any person that wants to get educated as a Stager does NOT get fooled by the false promises of Haverhill. They are a sham and should be shut down in my opinion.

I’ll post with my findings in the next day or so, but I suspect it will be more of the same.

Verdict: That is sooooooo lame to go out and fake post positive reviews and try to marginalize people that said they had a poor experience.