New Horizons New Horizons Computer Learning Center Their approach was all wrong because they were dishonest from the beginning. Durham North Carolina

Back in 2008, I was looking for a change of Career.  As I looked and looked, I came across an advertisement that included the description "IT Paid Training".  This caught my eye since I was looking to have a Career in Computers.

I submitted my Resume and got a call from someone by the name of Jim Pratt.  Jim was very persuasive, very agressive and a bit rude.  I overlooked his personal traits since I was looking to get into a new Career!  I was ready and excited that I was contacted and I set up an "interview" with Jim. 

Thinking I was going in for a job, I visited New Horizons (at the time in Morrisville) only to find out it was a school.  Even though I was disappointed that it turned out to be something completely different from what was advertised and discussd with me, I figured I would overlook that and give it a try anyway. 

I took several classes.  I stopped classes in 2009 simply because I was taking so many classes, but I have not gotten a Certification yet.  And I knew being the type of person that I am, I would easily forget what I learned and the classes were going so fast!

So I decided to stop taking classes and work on getting my first Certification which was the A+ Certification.  I studied and studied.  Finally April of 2010 I got my A+ Certification (which has done my absolutely no good).  I have applied for several jobs that say the A+ Cert is a requirement or a plus and - nothing.

After that I began studying for my Network+ Cert.  I studied and studied very hard for this.  I did not pass it the first time, or the second time.  I studied more.  I thought it was strange that I was doing good on the practice exams - getting 100%, but when it came to the real exam, I did not see anything familiar! 

I figured I would try one more time for the Network+ Certification and if I did not pass, I would just forget it and get an IT job without it anyway!  Once again I read and studied and passed the practice exams several times.  When I went to take the Network+ Exam for the third time, I did not pass again.  I was extremely disppointed.

At this point I was angry and felt like I had been tricked.  I was discouraged.  I knew that there was something wrong going on with the exam, but I asked myself what would be done about it if I said anything?  Probably nothing.  It just did not make since that I was passing the practice exams with 100% and was not even getting 70% on the real exam.

Before I knew it, it was 2011 and the only Certification I had was A+ (which still had not done me any good).  I had not worked full-time since 2008, so I could not afford the Sallie Mae payments.

It wasn't long before I knew that I made a pact with the devil.  And now a loan that (was supposed to be paid training)  was 20K is currently listed as 45K!  We (me or my co-signer) cannot pay this (fraudulent) debt!

(To anyone who is considering being a student at any New Horizons, it is probably best to just walk away while you can.)

It would be awesome to get justice for this situation.  Thank you.