Complaint Review: National Elite College Prospects - Syracuse New York

 I was solicited by National Elite College Prospects recruiter Justin McDowell on March 25, 2015. He claimed my daughter was selected for a scholarship and he would provide recruiting help for my daughter who is a high level soccer player and was a sophmore in high school. After consideration, I agreed to the $385 fee for him to help contact colleges and get her profile and information in front of colleges that matched her academic and athletic abilities. After some issues with the company taking money out of my account early,

I finally got started with Mr. McDowell, in May 2015. I contacted him when I never received any email from the company after a month of being signed up. I finally got an email and filled out a detailed informational sheet about my daughter. I emailed it to the company on May 6, 2015. At the end of May, I still had only talked to Mr. McDowell one time (to get an email sent), so I called and asked about the profile. June 11, 2015 a profile was sent that was full of misspellings, typos and grammatical errors. It also had information that was wrong! After several emails back and forth I was told a final copy edited copy would be sent to me as soon as possible. They did request a video at this time. I also asked about why my daughter was not being matched with colleges, like promised, and I was emailed that they would get back to me! I never was able to access a website or see if my daughter was even being promoted. As you will see, she wasn't.

On July 29, 2015 I sent them, returned receipt, a DVD and flashdrives both with video footage of my daughter. I heard nothing! They received the information August 3, 2015, according to the US Post Office.

On November 17, 2015, I called Mr. McDowell and left a message about not having any communication with him, and nothing being done for my daughter. He called back November 19, 2015 and left a message that Drew Sikorski would be in touch with me within a week.

On January 4, 2016, I called Mr. Sikorski and Mr. McDowell to state my displeasure at never receiving services for my daughter. I had not even had more than a minute discussion with Mr. McDowell since March 25, 2015, the day he sold me the services. He never matched my daughter with any colleges, talked to her, finished her profile or anything else that way promised!

I demanded a refund and stated how unprofessional the services were and I paid for nothing! I was met with excuses and a refusal to refund me any money. I have all the correspondance-phone calls and emails saved for the entire duration of our non-relationship. Mr. McDowell did nothing, but sell a service he did not do.

I finally got a call back on January 5, 2015 from Mike Adams. He claimed the could not find the video information. I sent him an email stating that I did not want my daughters info sent out, because she was already verbally committed to a D1 college. Too late for National Elite College Prospects. I also told Mr. Adams, I got all the coaches recruiting her to confirm they did not ever communicate with National Elite College Prospects about my daughter. My daughter is in the top 10 of her class academically. She needed the exposure between March and November. National Elite College Prospects did nothing!

On January 5, 2016 Mr. Adams quickly sent out my daughters profile, interestingly it was dated August 28, 2015 to his list of colleges coaches. This was done after I had sent him numerous emails telling him and Mr. McDowell we were done and I wanted a refund. Now my daughter has to respond to a plethera of emails to inform these coaches she did not contact them and she is verbally committed. Some emails went to coaches she had politely already turned down. The colleges that received her profile did not match her academic or athletic level or have her college major.

This company is a scam. They take your money and do nothing! I had to initiate all contact and until I requested a refund, I could not get any response. They sent the profile to say they did something! Too late. Do not sign with this company, you will be sorry! Go somewhere else!