University's
recruitment of new students is depraved. I was choosing
between UoP and a few other schools to pursue a
gradute studies certificate, and UoP mislead me with false information
to get me to enroll, only to swap out my
counsellor midway through with someone else who told me the
truth of things. Most importantly, I was told
that it could take 3-12 weeks for me to receive
my financial aid, but most likely I would receive it
in six weeks — so I budgeted my time and
resources accordingly.
Now I learn that it will
take between 12 and 18 weeks. I quit my
2nd job so that I could go to school.
Now I know that I need to get another 2nd
job, leaving me no time for school, basically setting me
up for failure, all so that UoP can waste my
time and generate billable enrollment in their classes.
This is
outright illegal, and everyone I've talked to says, “Well I
can't control what someone else has told you, all I
can do for you is this .. “ .. UoP
made promises to me, and has not kept them, and
now that they have my financial committment, are willing to
tell me the ugly truth about their admissions and financial
aid processing.
If I am not able to find another
2nd job, I will not be able to pay my
bills and will have to sell off bits of my
property to survive. I operated in good faith that
I was being told the truth by UoP, but I
was intentionally mislead by them, and that has harmed me.
I am contacting legal finanical aid here in Indianapolis, to
discover what my options are and seek legal counsel against
UoP.
In addition, the education you receive really
is sub-par. I learned more than this in the
one human resources class that I took as an undergrad,
as part of my business minor. I wish I
would have believed the negative reviews I saw about UoP
being a 'diploma mill' .. I am paying all of
this money and spending all of this time, to acquire
a worthless piece of paper.
I would recommend
that prospective students spend serious time discovering alternatives to UoP.
I would have been better off to keep my
2nd job and not go back to school at all,
than to attend UoP.