Help me! I am in debt up to my eye ***** In 2009 I was looking at my Myspace page and checking my emails. As I was doing this, I noticed a little tiny box in the upper right hand corner. The little box said Obama signs bill which allows moms to attend college for free. I was a little curious about it so I clicked on the box. It was not long before I got a telephone call from a recruiter from the University of Phoenix. The recruiter told me his name and who he was. He asked me if I was interested in going back to or if I was interested in going to college. I told him I was but I could not afford the payments. He then proceeded to tell me if he could arrange it for me to be able to go to school for free would I be interested in attending classes online. I told him I would be interested but I also told him once again, I would not be able to ever pay back the loans if I got accepted. About two minutes later, he said to me that it was all set and that I could start classes in a few weeks. I then told him, how is this possible and he told me because of the bill that was passed by Obama I would be able to attend for free and as long as I kept above a C grade, I would not have to pay anything back. He reassured me over and over again that he was sure there were no problems. Two weeks later I started classes. I was so proud of myself because I never had the opportunity when I was younger and had four children to raise with one child having special needs which made it impossible for me to even go to work because I needed to be home if the school my son was attending wanted me to pick him up because he could not listen to the teachers. I was enjoying being in a school finally and I kept my gpa above a C. Towards the end of finishing my Associates degree, I received a letter that said I had to pay over $3, 000 for the remainder of my classes. I called the school and the school said I was all set and not to worry that it was not in the system yet, and I did not have worry about paying anything. I even struggled with the math online which was very difficult. I ended up graduating with a gpa of 3.65. A few weeks later, I received a telephone call, my diploma in the mail, and the congratulations from the president of the college for doing such an awesome job in keeping my gpa so high, and doing such a good job. I also received another telephone call a few weeks later asking me if I was thinking of doing any more classes and go for my Bachelors. I decided to go ahead and continue because I had not been told yet, nor had I found out yet I was lied to by the recruiter at that college. I started my classes in August, and once again, I was very excited to continue my education because with a better education, I could get the job I really had been working for at that was Human Resources. After I started my classes, I received another letter that the bank where my loans had been coming from was sold to another bank. I had no clue what the letter meant and I called my financial adviser. She told me that she was sorry that I was lied to but there was nothing they could do. In March of this year, I lost my dad. The woman my dad was married to cannot take care of herself and needs to move out of the house. My brother had been made the executor of the will and he could do whatever he wants with the house. He decided as soon as he can get my dad's wife out of the house he wants to sell it. I told him that my husband and I are interested in buying the house, and that is when I found out because of the University of Phoenix's recruiter lied to me, I will most likely never have my own home. When I found out that I have to pay back over $38, 000.00 to the bank because of attending the school, I realized that I had been lied to, tricked, and deceived. The world needs to hear of this deceit, and people need to learn that it is and would be a terrible mistake to attend this college because of fraud, and misleading tactics that are used to find and put people in debt. Tomorrow, I will be withdrawing from this school, and I need a lawyer. I do not believe I should have to pay this money because I was clearly lied to, and I am still not finished.
I want to warn everyone of the decisive ways and lies that recruiters have done and I can see they still are. They need to be sued.
Update from my first complaint:
Last week, I received a telephone call from a woman who wanted to hear about my experiences with the uop online classes. I told her my story about how the uop recruiter had lied to me about how I could go to school for free as long as I kept my grades above a c, and told her how as long as I kept this; I would never have to pay a penny for my education. after I told her my situation, she said she was so sorry that happened to me. she then told me this, and this is what shocked me to hear her say this to me, she told me the uop recruiters were not allowed to do this anymore. so this proves to me that the uop recruiters, financial advisers were deceiving potential students all a long. now, I am in debt with the bank that carries my loans, to the tune of over $48, 000.00. uop should have to pay the bank back and not me.
