Everest University Online scam, financial rip off, scandalous , Internet

I don't have any helpful advice to remedy your situation, but if your admissions rep falsified any documents to the VA, the school can be sued for fraud.  In order for the VA to pay you your benefits, you must be taking courses that are part of your degree plan.  This has to be done BEFORE the VA certifies your attendance and sends info upstream for you to get paid. That means that the school would have to complete an evaluation of your transfer credits, and prepare a very specific degree plan that outlines exactly what courses are needed for you to graduate.  This is true for all benefit Chapters.

Please contact the VA and tell them what happened. At the very least, they can look into it and maybe help you or another vet retain benefit dollars.

Good luck!

I attended this school in 2005-2007ish.. I'm over 30K in debt because of loans they took out on my behalf without my knowledge. I qualified for Veterans Assistance benefits, filled out the application and was originally denied by the VA because they did not recognize the courses I was taking. However, the admissions rep who of course no longer works with Everest College "Sweet coated" the program and somehow got it approved through the VA. I don't know what they do or how they do it but they sure know how to suck money out of people. :(

Thank you for your service! As a veteran myself, and a former VA Certifying official, I might be able to help you find additional outlets for your complaint. The more people who know about these schools scamming our vets, the better.

Have you told your certifying official about the problem?  What was his/her response?

One place to post your complaint would be on facebook.com/HouseVetsAffairs. You might also want to go to military.com and post your complaint there so other vets are likely to see it.  The government committee responsible for this program is the Committee on Veterans Affairs. A contact person there is Amy Mitchell (202-225-3527). I think the Chairman is Representative Jeff Miller from Florida. His contact info can be found here: http://jeffmiller.house.gov/contact/.

Your complaint wasn't specific enough so you might consider adding details that better describe what happened.

Good luck, and let us know what happens!