Houston Community College DistrictReviews of hccs.edu

What made my experience great, was that HCC managed to stay around for society. The company is doing well, by keeping a tradition to more generations to come of home and excellence.

This review is in reference to the business plan competition organized by Houston Community College Alief Campus. This “business plan competition” is a scam. The long and costly ordeal small businesses must go through is a huge waste of time. The program’s organizers already know the winners before the competition ends. Yet, they string along the other contestants and bombard them with unrelated classes that cost more money. Essentially trying to upsell every chance they get. The so called “mentors” they assign are judgmental and useless. Most of them never even show up. It’s like they signed up to be a mentor because it looks good on their resume. And one thing I can’t understand is why a “successful” business would need to win $12,000. If there successful why are they looking for additional funding? Of course, when Amegy is sponsoring and mentoring the winning team the reason becomes apparent. HCC should be ashamed of themselves for hosting such an unethical farce year after year. As a returning competitor who’s been passed up twice, I’ve learned the hard way not to trust all parties involved. The idea that “it is what you make of it” is a cop out. It’s difficult to make nothing worth something when the game is rigged. The result was the cost of missing work, cost of fuel, cost of class prerequisites, exposed intellectual property and time the most valuable commodity of them all. HCC is great at coming up with ways to cheat students out of their money.