2016-09-09, 03:42 PM
Flonne Wrote:I got rooked into it out of High School before I knew any better. They started a new program the year I was a senior where you could attend ITT in the second half of the school day and do a bunch of credits (nontransferable). I did about 2 semesters worth and figured I was invested enough in it to just go ahead and do the rest of it.
Wow! I had no idea that any high schools were doing partnership programs like this. They effectively managed to leverage your school's reputation to vouch for their validity. Did you receive high school credit for any of those classes and did they receive any federal funds (in lieu of you paying them tuition or otherwise)? I'm certainly no lawyer, but you should probably do a consult with one to see if your circumstances merit any recompense if you haven't already.
I didn't mean to blame you in anyway. These for profit schools took immense advantage of uncapped federal aid and veteran benefits. I really hope the federal government continues to push to make schools (public and private) publish data on things like number of grads employed (in their field), salary, grad school acceptance, and number of years to graduate. These are all really important factors when evaluating school choices and it's either hard to find or often doesn't exist at all.