Paul Mitchell The School Atlanta

This is a wonderful school filled with a friendly staff and wonderful students. If you want to get a cosmetologist or Instructor license, enroll today! Loved it.

I only get my hair washed and flat iron. I’m too afraid to get anything else because of past experiences. 70% of the time it doesn’t look great but it’s acceptable when I don’t feel like washing my hair and would rather them do it. The biggest issue I have is I always have a 12:30 appointment and they never see me until close to 1:00. I’ve asked countless times can I just have a 1:00 appointment and they always deny me saying they don’t do 1:00 appointments. If I’m not going to be seen until 1, why not give me a 1:00 appointment?!

Essentially the school stole $100 from me for an application fee and never got back in touch. I tried a few times to contact them about starting school, and they always seemed like they didn't understand my questions or care enough to answer me. After talking to financial aid, I was told that I could apply to the school and be accepted, but put off my start date until I got a scholarship to help pay for classes. Everyone I spoke to after making that decision, made it seem like I was being difficult. They made me choose a start date, I chose August 4th.... today is August 2nd. Nobody has contacted me since I chose that day. I paid $100 application fee on that day as well. I contacted them since then, asking if there was anything else I needed to do, and they didn't have an answer. They haven't said anything since then. They're rude. In the beginning I met with Za at the school for a tour and to talk to financial aid. Financial aid was in a meeting at the time, so I had to reschedule. I was annoyed that I drove 45 minutes only to find out that they scheduled my appointment at a bad time. A few days later Za called me asking questions I would have only been able to answer after talking to financial aid... she was upset that I didn't have answers and hung up in my face. Since that day everybody I dealt with from this school was unprofessional and rude. They seem very unorganized and eager to blame their problems on future students like myself. I wanted to attend this school because Paul Mitchell is a respected name in the industry. The staff here don't live up to that name.

Paul Mitchell cancel their distance learning so all the students have to come back inside the building for school. Since they open the school back two students have tested positive for covid putting everybody in harms way since July, now it’s August another student have tested positive. I don’t understand how they check our temperature before we enter the school everyday but allowed students who have covid into the school.I don’t know if the students had covid before they returned back to school or did the students get it from being in the school. That I don’t know because the school isn’t giving us any information. You would think since we’re risking our health they would be honest on what’s going on. I done seen instructors and students coughing and sneezing. We suppose to be 6 feet away from each other’s but students be in each other personal space as well as the instructors be in each other’s space. Paul Mitchell School of Atlanta is putting all their students in danger and not taking covid as serious as they should. Just being real everybody inside of the building might just have covid at this point !!!!

Pro:nnI'm a student currently attending Paul Mitchell the School in Atlanta. First and foremost I want to say that the school has improved dramatically since when I first initially started. We have more learning leaders on the floor with us now. I feel like they truly do care whether we are learning something daily. This school is more hands on versus other schools that are more class oriented. I feel like that is actually better for students coming into the industry. I am graduating in a few months, so I'm actually really excited to see how far I can go with my new skillset. I love the kit that we received once we started core. Core & theory class are the best two classes to be in, just my opinion. The energy is much happier and Dallas personality is just awesome.nnCons:nHowever, I only rated this school a 3 star as they still have some things to improve on. One thing that is just terrible at this school and has actually gotten worse recently is the updating of the students hours in the system. So they have this rule that if your hours are messed up or if you forget to clock in you must fill out a time sheet and put it in Mr. Bryce bin next to his door. That's fine and all however for the last two or three months he has been extremely behind on updating hours. And when I say actually behind I don't mean a day, two or three, we are talking about weeks or more. I literally had to wait three weeks one time for him to update all the hours in the system meanwhile the hours for other students just kept getting backed up more and more. Before we took our Christmas break all the hours were supposed to be updated the last day before school closed. Yeah, I honestly think he was so far behind that he just took all of the hours and threw them in the trash because he would of had to stay there the entire day and night on a Saturday to get them done. When you say something to him about updating the hours he will either just blow us off and say he is too busy or he will take the hours out of the bin by his door and just put them on his desk for another week to make it look like he is actually updating them. Its really pointless at this point when it comes to approaching him about the situation. I find this very stressful as we all are waiting on return checks weekly, people are trying out for phase two, and we have people graduating soon. All of this requires hours to be updated in a timely manner and Mr. Bryce is definitely not good at the micro managing and administrative side of the position. Don't get me wrong his personality is great, funny guy and great stylist. He actually would be a better fit for working on the floor with students rather than administrative responsibilities. The school either needs to help him out or find someone that can actually handle the scope of the job. The second thing I noticed, Monday, Wednesdays and Friday is over flowing with students to the point were we don't even have enough stations to work at. We are literally sharing stations on the floor as the school is at its mass capacity for those days. They may want to think about adding more stations to the very back of the school as they still have some space back there that is basically open. Other than that, I think the school overall is a success and is going in the right direction.