""I speak with people, for example, who work at boiler room call centers for for-profit colleges and the lead generation companies that provide the industry with many of its students. Recently I've been learning more about one particularly offensive trick the industry uses. Multiple companies maintain fake websites promising jobs, food stamps, heating assistance. But these are just fronts to draw in people -- mostly low income people -- so they can be sold for-profit college programs. Before they can proceed on these sites, people come to a popup window asking for their contact information, and next thing someone is calling and trying to steer them to a for-profit college. According to people who have worked inside the lead generation industry, this particular bait and switch scam steers students to schools operated by Kaplan, ITT, Corinthian, Bridgepoint, the University of Phoenix, Career Education Corp., EDMC, and others. It's an awful scam, and I plan to report more on it soon.".....http://www.huffingtonpost.com/davidhalperin/as-for-profit-colleges-fi_b_6031046.html
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Capelli would rather spend money on lobbyists to fight a logical law protecting consumers and the American taxpayer's dollars rather than fight his own incompetent team to provide a valuable product to his customers. None of those tools have the spine to standup and be honest about the sorry state of this school. The University of Phoenix is the model of everything that can be wrong with American businesses today. Congratulations team, you're the best of the best at something.
The student population are not prepared for college work. Also a good number are Pell runners.For-profit schools need to change radically or be closed. Boiler room tactics are the norm in enrollment departments.
It's true, half of my students can confirm this.