First and foremost, I would like to state that most schools today are being conducted by "salespeople" or "admissions advisors". Most schools are for profit and have to make money, so they have to find a way for people to choose their school over others. HOWEVER, AIU online is a scam... They do not care about their students. When I worked there, the pressure to get so many enrollments a month was so great, that the "admissions advisors" were doing very unethical things IE telling students to lie about where they worked so that they can be "education partners: and get there $50 app fee waived, forging signatures on documents and telling students to sent them FA docs. The bad part about this is that the DOAs (the bosses) knew about what was going on and let most people get away with it! It was literally a revolving door, I was there for 2 years only because although I sold very well my first few months, I got pregant and went on an early maternity leave because the job had gotten sooo depressing, and my doctor said the stress was putting me at risk for early labor. So my last few months there, I got paid for sitting at home, and I'm glad I did. For anyone who has morals and ethical views, the job is HORRIBLE. Although I was one of the few educated employees there (BA from U of I), when I first started in most of their admissions advisors did not even have degrees themselves, they were uneducated unprofessional and fairly ignorant people (thus the infamous "script"). It is true about having to sleep your way to the top as well.in my two years I witnessed two perky blonds with huge breasts get promoted over well qualified, more deserving but not so attractive employees. One of the girls was not even there for two whole months before she was promoted to a "senior" advisor by my DOA whose initials are KJ. There were at least 4 other people on my team who were there longer and had gotten WAAY more enrollments, had better attitudes, and possessed great leadership skills than she did. Furthermore, when a team hits there "budget" of enrollments, the DOAs get big fat bonuses. No wonder SACS put them on accreditation probation for 2 years in 2006. My advice: Don't buy stock, it'll be another Enron, and don't enroll. There is no guarantee they will always have their accreditation, they are skating on thin ice right now, and they could care less about you. I honestly don't believe there are even real professors. We never met or spoke with any, so for all we know it could be anybody conducting these online courses. For all of you who are defending this school, you are talking from the outside. Take it from someone from the inside... I KNOW what was going on. And take this with you as well, a James Upshaw was arrested a little while ago for extoring money... This same man was promoted to a student manager at my site (Cumberland) for exceeding his enrollment goals immensely. This same man had access to applicants addresses, phone numbers, birthdays and social security numbers, and AIU did not care because he was bringing in numbers.
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