I was out of school for a very long time and thought ASA was the place for me to finally obtain my college diploma. After sending an email to the school for some further information, I was harassed by ASA representatives for days on my cell phone. I decided to go into the school and had to take a placement test. I did good on the test and was immediately directed to the financial aid office. I then was told that my grants from pell and tap were not enough to cover tuition costs so I would need to take out a loan for $12,000. The red flag should have went up right then. I thought positive and was ready to get my diploma and start a career where I would be able to pay the loan off. I was off to my classes two days later and when I reached the campus, I was amazed to see that it was inside a shopping mall with see-thru windows, which shoppers could which you studying while riding up and down the escalator. I was given the school librarian as my mentor. One of my criminal justice professors with the initials A.L.B. Was always in the hallway or in the classsoom with female students, giving hugs and kisses, just being too friendly. You pay for a three hour class on a saturday but you only stay for about an hour an a half each class. I had a professor that was a retired NYC police officer and you would have thought that he was living on another planet from the things he would say. The lunchroom area is a room that holds about eight people plus its also the janitor's room. There is only two bathrooms with five stalls and two sinks combined, you do the math. You are told to buy boks that you will need for your classes from there college bookstore that cost $100 a book or more and you never even use the book once. You are told that if you take a schedule with classes from 1 pm until 6 pm or weekend classes, you will get a automatic discount check for $1000 at the end of the semester but when the end of the semester came they told me because I failed one class I couldn't get the check. At one point I noticed an error on my financial aid application indicating that tuition was being paid to the school for a semester I never attended but when I went into the financial aid office they told me it was a typo in my file, it meant nothing. I returned to classes but when people started getting robbed for their cellphones and signs where put up telling grown-ups they coudn't wear hats or eat or drink, you weren't allowed to print more than twenty pages in their learning center. You are forced to pay for a class named freshmen skills seminar that teaches you how to make an resume and go on interviews. Most adults like myself have been in the workforce for plenty of years and didn't need this class but it is required to graduate. None of the credits you get from ASA will do you any good if you ever try to go to a real accredited college, you're time wasted for nothing. I witnessed students come to school drunk and high and totally disrupt the whole class but there was one female guard per floor and she sure wasn't going to do anything. After one semester at ASA I am done and I am glad I found out sooner than later. I am withdrawing from this mad house they call a college, I need to get some signatures from different departments and hopefully I am not in the hole for the whole $12,000 loan because I didn't use it for the whole 15-months course. I feel sorry for anyone that thinks ASA is trying to help them with getting a good education. All they want is for you to sign your name on those loan papers and then you are on your own from there. Most of the profesors have obtained their own degrees from Egypt, the Phillipines, China and the Ukraine back in the 70's and 80's. The things that they learned so many years ago in their countries has to be totally different from the United States now. The whole school needs to be closed down before it ruins anymore lives.
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