Kaplan College Kaplan dropped the ball, lied to students, left us hanging out to dry Vista, CA Nationwide

 I graduated from Kaplan in 2009 and was left to fend for myself. After several issues throughout my schooling process, I guess I shouldn't have hoped for anything more upon graduating. I actually tried to get a group of classmates together to pursue legal action, but some of them ended up moving away and didn't want to deal with it. I would be happy to contact some of them again and see if they'd be interested now. My main complaint was as we moved towards graduation, we had to choose options for our externship and for the program I was taking, we needed hands on experience in order to take our state board exams. We were doing therapy, phlebotomy, and EKG in our classes, and phlebotomy and EKG both require so many occurrences to take the test, but there weren't enough extern options and they told us to just choose one and they'd help us later. Well, day came for us to sign out of school and make sure everything was complete, we went back to the job center after that to see about getting another extern site so we could get our 50 sticks for phlebotomy and were told that we couldn't get any other sites because we are no longer students since we just signed out of all our classes! I was furious! I needed this so I could take my state exam and so they proceeded to tell me I could go volunteer at the AIDS clinic to get my sticks, but don't tell them that's why you're there, you'll have to commit to a few months of volunteer work. I was appalled because I had no medical insurance, we were now signed out of Kaplan so there's no insurance from them, and you're telling us to lie to this clinic and go put ourselves in danger because you lied and mislead us?!?! They do not care about your well-being at all, you are just a dollar sign! Graduation comes, I can't find a job, I'm unemployed because I had to quit my job in order to complete the mandatory 3 week clinical rotation. I called the job center several times a week trying to get job listings and they were of no help. Finally, after having a meltdown on the phone, the woman lined me up for an interview working at a group home for physically and mentally challenged adults. I took it because I was desperate and was hired, but I was making less money than before, and the job was not worth it. You don't need education to work there, you get abused by clients and are not a valued employee. After a pretty extensive injury to my wrist while on the job, I quit and found something else. I still have issues with my wrist to this day, haven't needed my "education" for anything, and have tons of student loans for a useless certificate. I had looked into going to a real college after, but those credits they say you can transfer to another school, totally bogus! No one looks at Kaplan as being a legitimate educational institution. The hospitals didn't care about my education either, I was only able to get some very part time per diem hours because the only legitimate thing I got from Kaplan was my CNA license, which wasn't what I wanted to do and isn't why I even signed up for the program I did. Needless to say, I wasted my time and racked up a lot of debt that I can't even begin to payoff, ended up filing for bankruptcy but these loans will continue to follow me. I tell everyone I know to avoid Kaplan because it's a ripoff and a scam!