University Of Phoenix Unfair Employment Practices/ Terminated by Email Phoenix Arizona

This is my expirence with UoP finance department- (i wont go into detail about how poorly constructed the classes are but let me just say that they suck really bad.)

I attended UoP for about 6 classes. everything was fine and dandy starting out. I was told my Financial aid was covering all but about 50 dollars for every 2 classes. 5 dollars that i would have to come up with out of pocket. so i was like no biggie and i started taking classes. then in late november i think it was i started recieving emails from my financial councelor telling me i needed to reapply for the Pell Grant. And at the tiem i really didnt need the money. i was getting the Gi Bill and Financial aid was covering almost everything else, so the pell grant was just some extra money that i wasnt too worried about at the time. I was a little lazy i guess in filing for it. but my financial councelor wouldnt have it. she emailed me 12 times over the pell grant. telling me, "you dont have to file it if you dont want to." "its free money that will go directly to you" "your passing up free money" "your financial aid is covering everyhting the pellgrant is all yours all you have to do is file" ect...

So finally she sends me a pretty crappy email telling me that she isnt going to worry about it if i am not going to worry about it. she isnt going to force me to file for free money if i dont want to. So im like fine... i'll file the damn thing.

Then a little while later i get a check for about $2,200 in the mail. and after about 4 weeks or so its gone. then i get a phone call from UoP telling me that they made a mistake and they forgot to pull 1400 dollars out of my Pell Grant before they sent it to me.

Here is where the circuits in my brain started backfireing and rereading all those emails in my head. and i was like wait a minute, what exactly do you need 1400 dollars from my pell grant for? i recieved no answer other then an error and they forgot to take it out of my check before they sent it to me. So then i asked them why they were taking money out if the pell grant was optional and i was told i was paid up and it was all free money that was supposed to go to me.

I was told my financial aid was paying for everything. That i DIDNT have to file for the pell grant and that i was just missing out on free money.

So then i got to thinking, why were they so damn hard up for me to file for the pell grant if i didnt need it to pay for anything. and if my invoice online said i was paid up in full what in the hell were they going to do with that 1,400 dollars? pocket it? So basically they will not tell me what the money was going to go for. They just simply said it was supposed to bee takin out of my grant.

Then they told me that i would not be able to continue to enroll in classes untill i paid them the 1,400 dollars. (wich i no longer had) and i told them that i didnt have it. after about 2 weeks when it came time to re-up for new classes they called me and said thaty would make me a deal. they would let me enroll in my next 2 classes as long as i agreed to pay then the 1,400 dollars over the next 9 weeks. and at this point i had done a little research. like the FBI investigation they had in 2004 among other things. So i told them No. DO NOT enroll me in any more classes. I am not paying you the money because my account is still paid up. not untill you can show you why you are taking money from me without telling me why. I told them i was no longer going to be attending their school and i would seek further education at a different establishment without such lucrative financial ways.

So what did they do? they enrolled me in 2 more classes anyway.  and now i have been out of school for 6 months and my student loan shows that they charged me 900 dollars for each of those 2 classes. They sent my account to collections saying that i owe them 1,400 dollars (still no reason listed) and i owe the bank almost 8000 dollars.. for 8 classes. 2 of wich i didnt even take. and if the classes are only about 600 dollars each you do the math. 560 i think it was per class (some kind of discount is listed on all my classes) 8 classes at 560 is 4480.00 + the 1400 they say i owe them = 5880... yet the student loan is listed at 8000?

Bottom line... This has got to be the shadiest school on the planet.

Do NOT get sucked into their quick start enrollment proceedures. If you call them they will get you started really quick and it will seam really cool for first time college students like i was. The thought of going to college for the first time made so easy by one simple phone call and some smooth talking enrollment guy who is gonna tell you exactly what you want to hear.

THIS SCHOOL IS A RIP OFF

plain and simple