Another former recruiting manager has come forward with allegations that a prominent for-profit college chain routinely misled students about tuition costs and future job prospects.
The employee, a former associate director of admissions at Pittsburgh-based Education Management Corp., alleged a widespread scheme to boost federal student aid in a
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Holy shit. That's more than I paid for my law degree.
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If "for profit" or "military friendly" is anywhere near it, I'm running. (Seriously, all those colleges that are WOOOO WE'RE MILITARY FRIENDLY! are on the for-profit lists.)
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Attorneys General Take Aim at For-Profit Colleges' Institutional Loan Programs
A group of state attorneys general investigating for-profit colleges is turning its attention to institutional loan programs, the leader of the group said on Tuesday at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on student debt.(see above source for the rest of the article and additional links)
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And funnily enough, the financial aid page - where you'd think this information would be natural - only sometimes has the information. Usually the financial aid page talks about how easy it is to get aid and how some ridiculously large percentage of students get financial aid (but Direct loans are included in financial aid, and there's never a breakdown of what % of students get non-repayable aid). I often have to do a search and click through a bunch of ( ... )
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