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Complaint Review: Harrison Career Institute - Baltimore Maryland
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1040 Park Ave Baltimore, 21201 Maryland, U.S.A.
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Harrison Career Institute The school closed down while I was attending and now i am stuck with a student loan that i don't believe that i'm responsable for. Baltimore Maryland
I enrolled to become a student at the Harrrison Career Institute in August of 2005. In February 27, 2006 I sat down with the director to discuss taking a leave of absents for a couple of month. I sign a paper and the director informed me that by signing the paper I can come back to the school with out a problem and start of where I left off. I said that that would be good and I would be back before September. I also told him that I just need a little break because i was a single parent raising two children that where both under the age of four. And at that time i just got finish doing jury duty for four days and all of that was a little overwhelming. We both siged the paper and I went on leave. I called back in June of 2006, so that i can return back to the school. A lady answered the phone and I asked her if I could speak with somone about coming back to school. She informed me that the school was in the process of closing. I asked her "well, what am I supposed to do", and she told me that they were giving out te transcripts to all of the students and I could come and pick it up. I said to her "what am I going to do with a transcript". then I said okay and thank you. I am now being billed for the time that I attended the school and I feel that i should not have to pay it because I did not recieve the full education that I was promised by the school. I did everything that was in the contract that I signed upon enrollment, but they did not do their part because they closed down. I am now getting threatning calls from a collection agency for an expensive bill that I can not pay. I spoke with someone from the Maryland Higher Education Commision, and she gave me as mush information that she could. She also informed me that Harrison Career Institute Dropped me of of there roll. She told me that in their leave policy they give you 180 days to come back or they will drop you off roll. If I signed the papers in February 2006 I would have had until August 2006 to came back. I called in June 2006 to come back and the school was already closing. So how did I wait to long to come back when the school close before my 180 days was up (I was impossible for me to come back because they where closed). I believe that they did that so that they woudn't have to pay that money back, but in the meantime i'm stuck with the high bill.
Mikesha
Baltimore, Maryland
U.S.A.
Mikesha
Baltimore, Maryland
U.S.A.
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Eulogy4innocence
Hyattsville,Maryland,
U.S.A.
NOT SIMPLE
#2Consumer Suggestion
Wed, May 28, 2008
The school got paid but she got no education... Thats not simple at all. What a flake. She said she dropped out early and Direct Loans nor her were sent the remainder of the tuition. So the school kept her money and now she's in debt with the Department of Education. The same thing I'm going through... a bogus company taking people for what they have and we as consumers being stuck with the bill. So now if she wants to go to school (hopefully a decent, accredited, honarable institution this time), she's going to have two loans to pay and thats NOT RIGHT!
Destructo
Stuarts Draft,Virginia,
U.S.A.
It's Simple
#3Consumer Comment
Thu, February 14, 2008
You need to pay for the classes you've already taken. They've already offered you a transcript to use in your education with another school. You're basically saying, "I went to school, but don't want to pay for the education I've received," which is absurd. This is far from a ripoff.
