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Complaint Review: AIU - American Intercontinental University - Hoffman Estates Illinois
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5550 Prairie Stone Parkway. Suite 400 Hoffman Estates, 60192 Illinois, U.S.A.
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AIU - American Intercontinental University I was told by Financial Aid the cost of my program would be 16.000 now they are saying that was for the 1st 8 months Hoffman Estates Illinois
I contacted AIU the summer of 2004. I asked a lot of questions so I could make my decision as to transfer schools or not. The admissions advisor could not answer how much my program would cost me, she said I would need to talk to Financial Aid. Well, you don't talk to them until after you are accepted and they receive your funds from Stafford.
When I did get to talk to a Financial Aid advisor named Ricci I asked him how much was my program. He said my program would cost me 16,000. I then said for the whole program? He said yes. I thought that was great because the school I was with the program was 22,000. Then I was advised by him that I would need to come up with out of pocket 6,300 because Stafford would only pay 10,500. He said he would have to put me on a cash agreement since I could not come up with it upfront.
Who could? I paid one month and then found that there was no way possible I could make the payment they set for me. I decided that after January I would apply for another Stafford Laon and then after ti was granted AIU could get their 6,300 and I would get some cash in my pocket to cover some financial obligations.
Well lo and behold I was contacted by FA in April 2005 saying I now owe for this next term 1,700. I was totally confused then. Then they told me the 16,000 was for the 1st 8 months and it would be 11,000 for the next 5 months. I told them I was not told this from the beginning and if I were I would have just stayed at the school I was attending.
Now they are adminstratively withdrawing me cause I cannot come up with 2,800 in 1 week. I only have 4 classes to go. FA, Advisor, no one will help me with this. They all just say oh well. I would not recommend this school to anyone, this is very much a ripoff. They need to be discredited.
Jenny
Florissant, Missouri
U.S.A.
When I did get to talk to a Financial Aid advisor named Ricci I asked him how much was my program. He said my program would cost me 16,000. I then said for the whole program? He said yes. I thought that was great because the school I was with the program was 22,000. Then I was advised by him that I would need to come up with out of pocket 6,300 because Stafford would only pay 10,500. He said he would have to put me on a cash agreement since I could not come up with it upfront.
Who could? I paid one month and then found that there was no way possible I could make the payment they set for me. I decided that after January I would apply for another Stafford Laon and then after ti was granted AIU could get their 6,300 and I would get some cash in my pocket to cover some financial obligations.
Well lo and behold I was contacted by FA in April 2005 saying I now owe for this next term 1,700. I was totally confused then. Then they told me the 16,000 was for the 1st 8 months and it would be 11,000 for the next 5 months. I told them I was not told this from the beginning and if I were I would have just stayed at the school I was attending.
Now they are adminstratively withdrawing me cause I cannot come up with 2,800 in 1 week. I only have 4 classes to go. FA, Advisor, no one will help me with this. They all just say oh well. I would not recommend this school to anyone, this is very much a ripoff. They need to be discredited.
Jenny
Florissant, Missouri
U.S.A.
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Carol Ann
Las Vegas,Nevada,
U.S.A.
College Rip offs
#2Consumer Suggestion
Sun, July 10, 2005
I hope that you report these people at AIU to Post Secondary Schools in your state that handle complaints like yours and get an attorney to sue them. You might also go to the U.S. Department of Education and file a complaint. They sound just like the scam artists at Bethany College in Scotts Valley, California in their financial aid office that are changing student classes,dropping them below the classes necessary to keep financial aid, come up with unresonable excuses, withdrawing them under false pretenses and refusing to give them their transcripts. Report them to every available agency!
