Hello potential college students. I am writing this letter to prevent someone from making a big mistake. The more people I can keep from making this mistake the better I will feel. I should have followed my gut from the start and took the information I had from this site as well as others and allowed that to influence my decision as far as attending this college.
Last sep I was looking to go back to college. I had went down this path before and it ended up I could not afford to follow thru. Wel 5 years later some things had changed and I was more so in a position that allowed me to attemtp to go back. I have a large family and I am the only person in my house that works so I appreciate my money and I am careful as to where and how I spend it. I am very frugal when it comes to money because I grew up poor and do not intend to end up back where I started so when I invest in something it needs to be worth it. I take my time investigating things and then make a decision.
Well I went to ITT as part of my investigational process that is part of my nature. They had a program I was very interested in. I could tell the rep that was showing me thru the school felt very strongly about what he was doing. He was a great guy and realy does not belong at this schol. But anyway thats besides the point. He showed me thru the school and explained the program to me and so far so good. I went ahead and sighned up and got the 1st sighn that I should quite when I found out the 2 year degree cost 45k. Wow... Are you kidding? Turns out no. I had to get a secondary lender to finish paying for the quarter cause it was more then on lender would assume responsibility for.
This place cost more then a prestigious college. Well That put me on the defense but I had time to make my deicsion. So I went with the flow. I went home that night and did research on the school for hours. I know I spent 7 hours that night alone researching ITT and came up with nothing but negative stuff. So I called and told them I wanted to cancel. I went to the school to cancel and 3 people from the school talked me int giving it a chance. One guy said " If you encounted any problems we will do what is necassary to make it right. "Well, I was sold.
So I started 3 weeks later and my first class was such a huge let down. I ws basically giving ITT 3,000 $ for this class so the teacher could inform us of his wifes likes and silikes as well as give us 45 minute breaks on the hour. I was mad. I gave the guy a chance and waited a few more weeks then I was like " What did I pay ITT for?" So I started writing letters in reguards to this guys lack of teaching. Every single person in that class knew he was not teaching and they where all furious at the thought of paying money for nothing. So I went ahead sent up some emails to my rep who forwarded them to the director. The whole quarter nothing changed.
At the end of the quarter I filed for a refund of that class and the director up and quit 2 days after i filed. No notice. And the new director, who I might ad just dont give a crap, took over where he left off. The associate dean was bye far the most curteous person thru the whole process. After weeks of waiting for closer on my respons I finally got a letter in the mail from the new director saying a refund is not warranted.
Ok, how is it not warranted? I let them know the whole time I was in the class he was not teaching as well as others that I know for a fact submitted feedback for this teacher not teaching anything I drove 80 miles a day for this class and didnt get taught one day. Not one. Occasionally he would name a part. Not explaing anything about it. I deserve a refund and every single person on that class does too. I called the new director and he could not give me a stright answer other then " I didnt feel it was necassary"
If he would have refunded me I would have been satisfied and felt like maybe they make an effort to do the right thing. But in this case I had as much evidence as one could need. I had the smoking gun and support from some of thee staff that akcnowledged this was going on and still did not get a reund. What warrants a refund? The teacher not showing up 8-% of the quarter? There has to be some kind of defense for this type of thing. I left this school due to lack of support and quaity.
On the other hand there where 2 people at that school that where great to deal with and really cared. I am sorry if this affects their job in any way but this is being written for the greated good. People dont deserve this and ITT should not be able to get away with not teaching and still having to pay them. I dropped out at the start of the second quarter. 2 days after I dropped out a collection agency started calling me. 2 DAYS! They want 2,000 cash plus the 14 k that it costs me to go for 5 1/2 months. Sound fair?
They wasted no time trying to get their money.in 2 days they are trying to collect but they had a whole uarter to resolve a teaching problem. See how that works? They care about the money not you. Now I get callled 2 times a day for money I dont owe. Ill fight it tooth and nail. If I can prevent one of you from making this mistake Ill feel much better about my time there.
Do yourself a favor. To avoid drama, stress, bankruptcy and a major waste of your precious time avoid this school.in this case you are better off not getting a degree at all. Take a look at your alternatives. You will get a much better education for a fraction of the price and I am sure a much better support group. The director knows they should refund me. He just knows he does not have too. Basically he knows there is nothing to stop him so he did what any money grubbing person in his position would do and opted not to refund me.
I will spend the rest of my life advocating against ITT tech. They have no interest in helping people. They want to please the stock holders. There is a balance that must be maintained or over time they will fail. This place is not maintaing any balance and over time they will not exist. I hope I contribute to this letting people know of my exp.
This is tha maint contributing factor and there are others involved. But I think there is enough in this article to gie you a good idea as to why you should avoid this place. The other things that contribute are similar in nature to the main problem but I dont want to waste any more of your time with information that is not necassary. Read the other ITT articles on this site as well as other sites.
I did not write this letter as a revenge mechanism. I wrote this letter to help my fellow people in the same situation. If you have a family, job and relashionship you stand to lose everything as a bi product of what comes from attending ITT. Good luck to you in the future
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