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Complaint Review: University Of Phoenix - Baton Rouge Louisiana
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2431 S. Acadian Thwy. Baton Rouge, 70808 Louisiana, U.S.A.
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University Of Phoenix I was dropped after my first class and billed almost $1200 dollars, after being approved for financial aid. Baton Rouge Louisiana
I should have known especially after my landlord told me he had a bad feeling about this school.
I was interested in furthering my education and decided to talk with a few universities. The university of Phoenix was very persistent and managed to enroll me and get me cleared for financial aid and a student loan from wells fargo in one week. They notified me one day before classes began and urged me to start the following day. After about two weeks in school,they notified me that the Selective Service could not recover records of my registration. They told me if the Selective Service could not provide record of registration, to have them submit a status letter and everything would be fine. They submitted the letter to me and it stated that the final decision would be up to the university which had claimed this would be all they needed. About two weeks after, the university asked me to ask the Selective Service to provide information to verify whether they tried to contact me regarding registration. I had explained profusely that I registered in high-school when I registered to vote.Over the phone the Selective Service Representative confirmed that it was very possible that it could have been misplaced because, there was no record of them trying to contact me, and I had lived at the same address for over ten years after high-school. I had explained to the university that the Selective Service had been receiving such a high volume of calls, until they were not accepting any calls that allowed me to speak to a representative.My Financial Counselor and I tried to no avail to get through for the following two weeks. During this period they disqualified my financial aid and the student loan despite my financial counselor requests for an answer to why they wouldn't accept the Status letter which contained the same information they had approved in other cases. Needless to say they are now harassing me for almost $1200 dollars for attending five classes,.. " That's five weeks,.. one day a week to write six essays about some unimportant nonsense"!!!!
I am looking for a lawyer and I am interested in making it known by whatever means necessary to exploit this crooked university.
Kevin d. magee
Prairieville, Louisiana
U.S.A.
I was interested in furthering my education and decided to talk with a few universities. The university of Phoenix was very persistent and managed to enroll me and get me cleared for financial aid and a student loan from wells fargo in one week. They notified me one day before classes began and urged me to start the following day. After about two weeks in school,they notified me that the Selective Service could not recover records of my registration. They told me if the Selective Service could not provide record of registration, to have them submit a status letter and everything would be fine. They submitted the letter to me and it stated that the final decision would be up to the university which had claimed this would be all they needed. About two weeks after, the university asked me to ask the Selective Service to provide information to verify whether they tried to contact me regarding registration. I had explained profusely that I registered in high-school when I registered to vote.Over the phone the Selective Service Representative confirmed that it was very possible that it could have been misplaced because, there was no record of them trying to contact me, and I had lived at the same address for over ten years after high-school. I had explained to the university that the Selective Service had been receiving such a high volume of calls, until they were not accepting any calls that allowed me to speak to a representative.My Financial Counselor and I tried to no avail to get through for the following two weeks. During this period they disqualified my financial aid and the student loan despite my financial counselor requests for an answer to why they wouldn't accept the Status letter which contained the same information they had approved in other cases. Needless to say they are now harassing me for almost $1200 dollars for attending five classes,.. " That's five weeks,.. one day a week to write six essays about some unimportant nonsense"!!!!
I am looking for a lawyer and I am interested in making it known by whatever means necessary to exploit this crooked university.
Kevin d. magee
Prairieville, Louisiana
U.S.A.
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chelio
Port Orange,Florida,
USA
A big Joke!
#2
Wed, August 19, 2009
I went to UOP in Aug. of 07, and took 1 semester and was dropped. I received over $3,000 in student loans from Sallie Mae. The last time I checked my student balance on the schools website it should i had a 0.00 balance.
Not long after I was dropped i started getting balance statements saying I owed $1200. I called them to set up a payment plan and they informed me the only options I had were to either pay it off in full or make a monthly payment of $200. I was not working at the time and they told the were then gonna send me to collections! I am sorry but i was not going to take food from my child to pay them!
About a month later I got a statement from Sallie Mae and notice that I still had $1750.00 still in loans out to UOP. I called the school and they told me they don't know why that is showing up on my statements because they sent all the money back to them.
After calling Sallie Mae and questioning them about it they informed me that UOP only sent they $2000.00 back. I then called UOP back and tried to explain this and I was transferred 5 times i was finally sent to a collections company. I tried explaining everything to them and they told me that i had my facts wrong. Thats when the calls started! A week later i received a call for a guy named Hanna stating he was an attorney attempting to collect the balance for UOP and if i was unable to pay it i would be getting court papers in the mail. This sent red flags in my head. After doing a google search I found he was actually with the collection company. The next day I got a call from a Rose from the same office. I told her I would not speak to her and i wanted to speak to a manager. She stated she was the manager and began making comments that went beyond the normal beating a collection company gives you. I let her finish and asked if she was done and then told her a a calm manner I would not speak to anyone from her company after one of her co-worker falsely represented himself an an attorney, and that was against the law! That made her hang up on me!
After looking into it more I have found (and glad to know) I am not the only one this has happened to! If anyone has any information about a lawsuit please let me know!
Chel
