With all of the state colleges and community colleges now offering online courses of higher quality, for less money, and with greater prestige than UOP (or other for-profits)--why do students even enroll there? This is a question I can't seem to find an answer to.
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Many of UOP students don't have a valid high school diploma or GED. UOP enrollment staff dont get proof the student has GED or HS diploma and enrollment doesnt realize that there are crowds of people that will enroll because we just don't care. If the student is selected for financial aid verification and has to prove they have GED or Diploma thats when they drop off but will have amassed a debt of a few thousand dollars. However the students often don't know about verification so they think they will go through unnoticed and many of them do. Open your eyes enrollment staff its happening under your nose. Thats why we still have any enrollments at all.
Because they don't want to take the SAT/ACT. I was an ER for 7 years and that's the excuse I heard most often.
Because they can’t get into a real college. Our students can’t write or add past a 5th grade level, that’s why they come here. They know we are the only school they can get into. No one else will take them besides us.
Because deep inside these people know they can't cut it at regular universities. Most UOP students wouldn't get passing grades in other online (real) quality programs. They know it and they go to UOP for that reason. You can get a passing grade just by posting whatever comes to your head in a chat area twice a week, and then plagiarizing an assignment that has been used for over a year by hundreds of people before you. That you won't get a job later with that diploma? Who cares!
Convenience, you tool. The same reason you will pay $70 a week for Hell Fresh instead of cook your own dinner.