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Complaint Review: american commercial college - abilene Texas
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american commercial college
402 butternut st. abilene, 79602 Texas, United States of America
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american commercial college my total tuition was 12,700 to go to school for a medical assistant. recieved 2 pell grants = 6,069, & 1 loan = 9,500 & another = 1,625. waiting for another pell grant =4, 012. I got 3,000 expence $. abilene, Texas
I went to American Commercial College in Abilene, TX for a medical assistant. My tuition was $12,700 in all. I recieved a federal pell grant for the 2008-2009 school year totaling $4,731, and loans from sallie mae totaling $9,500. I recieved roughly about $3,200 in exspense money (which I thought was left over from my loans $9,500). I starated my third semester in summer of 09 which was only 6 weeks, and was promised that I would be sent on an externship the whole semester, which did not happed. So I have been enrolled for the third semester and not even going because they have no where to send me on my externship. I was told at the time of enrolling that all I would have in loans was the 9,500. Now I recently just recieved another letter from financial aide saying that I am scheduled to recieve a $5,350 pell grant, which only $1,338 has been paid to date. Then I recieved the same day a letter from a totally different bank called direct loans saying that two checks in the amount of $561 and $560 ( subsidized) were disbursed on the 37th of August 2009, and another two checks (unsubsidized) in the amount of $747 each were disbursed the same day as the two listed above. So I dont understand how they are recieveing this much money without my knowledge of them even taking out another loan. There are many students complaining about the cost and where the money is going. Adding up all the money that they have recieved on a $12,700 tuition, I am coming up with over $18,000.
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ReactorCore
Victoria,British Columbia,
Canada
Perhaps you could...
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Sat, August 29, 2009
Take some of that delicious grant money and invest it in remedial English courses and learn some grammar too while you're at it?
Seriously, your skills are so poor, I wouldn't let you near me with a cotton swab, much less a syringe for a blood draw.
What planet do you live on that there are 37 days in August? You didn't even really proofread your submission, did you? Now, that aside...
This gyp joint you're attending is probably like all the others of it's kind; ITT, DeVrey, Uni of Phoenix and so on.. unaccredited, poorly staffed and supplied, substandard learning materials, accelerated cramming and overcrowded and overbooked classrooms.
These types of places are always under scrutiny not just because of the stuff I previously stated, but also because they tend to be very, very aggressive about getting money, often employing tactics designed to extract the maximum amount from a student at the limit of their credit, often by questionable means (making calls to credit companies on the student's behalf or calling a credit card company to raise a potential student's limit is not unheard of) only to reward them with crushing debt and, more importantly, the possibility that they may never get a job in their chosen field because they're unaccredited!
Even if there's some manner of accreditation from the institution, it will likely be totally worthless in another state, since that accreditation is non-transferable and likely not recognized by another state.
Do some more research and then make a decision.
