University Of Pheonix Scam, Financial aide fraud Liars Deceptive Phoenix Arizona

How do you have any idea what his counselor/sales person promised him? You calmly state precisely what type of promotion, free books, was offered to him, but you have no way of knowing this.

It seems pretty common for UOP counselors to lie and obfuscate. Maybe not all of them, but plenty do. I was deceived, tuition was 50% more than I was told it would be, yeah I checked the rates in the student handbook, I thought building web pages was IT, but it was billed as business, hence the tuition bump. I was told that with the transfer of my current credits I could graduate in one year or less, once we got started, it was 2 1/2 years. The worst thing was, I thought I was enrolling in a university, one of those places with professors and all, where you learn things from someone who knows more than the guy sitting next to you at the bar, but it wasn't.

You know, come to think of it, my ten weeks of hell attending UOP were bad enough, the cost was absurd and a real rip off and all in all it was a degrading experience. People who get taken in by this fake university can't do anything to get their time, money or credit scores back, so they come to this website to vent and share their stories, to warn others and commiserate. It is a little disgusting that UOP would pay a creep like you, to come and insult the people that have already been ripped off by this joke of a school. It is actually really disgusting, because the studens fees pay for you to take the time to get on this website and oh so politely and authoritatively insult them. This is what UOP is about, a fake image, a fake education, and a fake concerned blogger.

Jonid

How do you have any idea what his counselor/sales person promised him? You calmly state precisely what type of promotion, free books, was offered to him, but you have no way of knowing this.

It seems pretty common for UOP counselors to lie and obfuscate. Maybe not all of them, but plenty do. I was deceived, tuition was 50% more than I was told it would be, yeah I checked the rates in the student handbook, I thought building web pages was IT, but it was billed as business, hence the tuition bump. I was told that with the transfer of my current credits I could graduate in one year or less, once we got started, it was 2 1/2 years. The worst thing was, I thought I was enrolling in a university, one of those places with professors and all, where you learn things from someone who knows more than the guy sitting next to you at the bar, but it wasn't.

You know, come to think of it, my ten weeks of hell attending UOP were bad enough, the cost was absurd and a real rip off and all in all it was a degrading experience. People who get taken in by this fake university can't do anything to get their time, money or credit scores back, so they come to this website to vent and share their stories, to warn others and commiserate. It is a little disgusting that UOP would pay a creep like you, to come and insult the people that have already been ripped off by this joke of a school. It is actually really disgusting, because the studens fees pay for you to take the time to get on this website and oh so politely and authoritatively insult them. This is what UOP is about, a fake image, a fake education, and a fake concerned blogger.

Jonid

Firstly, tuition is never free. There was a promotion for free books for your first 5 week class, but not the entire class (which is actually 3 credit hours, not 2). Depending on if you are federally clasified as dependent or independent, you get a certain amount in federal loans and possible grants. the excess funds check(s) is the money left over after receiving your first semester's worth of tuition and book expenses and applying the funds received.

Depending on if you chose to administer your own funds you have to pay each 5 week class as you go, or you can choose for us to receive and apply your federal money FOR you as a service. We send you a complete and detailed breakdown of every penny. If you have questions, it is UP TO YOU to figure out what is going on.

People think this is a hands-off experience where we do everything for you, while actually, the student is responsible for making sure everything is in order. If you ask for our help, we will give it.

As far as transferrable credits, each college and university has it's requirements for bringing in credits. it's never completely guaranteed. As a service to attending students we will request your official transcripts and evaluate them and bring in as many credits as possible. Just be aware that you can only have so many electives and other pre-requisite general education credits. If you have a ton of history courses or science courses, they may not all come over.

Also, courses in the 300 level probably won't transfer becasue of residency requirements that EVERY school has.

I am astonished that people don't take the time to be informed or read their rights and responsibilities, then threaten litigation when they are suprised with something that shouldn't have been a suprise. Be aware.

As a Junior (or grade level 3), you should have received about $12,300 in stafford loans for the year, divided by 2 (half for the 1st semester, half for the 2nd). If you qualified for Pell money, too, you would have gotten that extra money in a second check. Hence the two checks. Tuition is roughly $9,500/academic year plus books ($75/class). You should have received about $1,000 extra for the excess in stafford loans and whatever else for the Pell grant you were awarded.

If this makes sense, you will understand the system a little better, if not, get informed. You have to make sense of it all, and the additional $20,000 you have left to finish your bachelors is actually well worth it.