“Help! I called an online school to ask about their degree program in healthcare and now they won’t stop calling me. They’ve called like five times this week. Now they have my cell number and want me to sign student loan papers. I feel like I’m being harassed by a bill collector.”
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Students often complain to us that they’re getting a hard sell from admissions reps at for-profit online colleges and schools. We’re not surprised. Over the last few years, several class-action suits have found for-profit schools guilty of employing aggressive and misleading tactics to rush online students toward enrollment.
Under scrutiny, many for-profit online universities have cleaned up their acts. But a select few still use hard-sell tactics to lure students especially when it comes to getting students to sign loan paperwork.