I have been attending University of Phoenix for a little over a year and am about 5 classes or 15 credits short of my associates degree. I am very grateful for the chance to hurry thru my studies, but that is the only good thing that UOP has done for me. I have turned to this website for help... I hope that I can find it...
(THIS IS PRETTY MUCH JUST BASIC BACKGROUND, PLEASE SKIP IF YOU UNDERSTAND THE JIST OF UOP)
I have had several different financial and academic counselors since I have enrolled in Axia online. They never inform me of the change, and this has caused many frustrations and plenty of confusion for me. I also never receive any help from the instructors, since it is entirely online you are pretty much on your own for EVERYTHING, in fact, I have had teachers promise to call and never do so... Although I had ONE excellent teacher, who seemed equally fed up with UOP as anyone else... It has been difficult to keep on top of my studies... It was advertised that it would be convenient, but it has been anything but... You have to post 2 responses to your peers 3 times a week, which alternates between your two classes (unless you are like me and your academic counselor puts you in classes that are on the same track, leaving me with 12 participation posts a week.) Plus you have 7-8 assignments per week... So its been pretty time consuming.
The problem:
About two weeks ago I recieved a call saying that I did not have enough funding to carry on with my classes because my status as a dependant student... SOO in response to this I ordered my transcripts and began applying at the community college in my area because it is MUCH cheaper and I can pay out of pocket... Once I informed them of my plans I IMMEDIATLY (it usually takes about 3-5 calls in order to actually get a call back) got a call from my Financial Counselor saying that, due to the point that I was at in my loans I could not drop out of UOP... So, in her words, I have to complete 60% of the studies in my quarter in order to drop UOP with out having to pay for the last two classes that I took... Then again, I do not have enough funding to take the classes that I need in order to meet this 60% for the quarter... So I am pretty much screwed as UOP sees it...
I AM NOT paying them a dime because I have called around to FAFSA, Direct Loans, and another location that was mentioned on UOPSUCKS.com, and they all say that it sounds like another one of UOP's tricks. I was promised when I started there that loans would cover everything... Now that I am almost done they are starting up with this crap... What should I do? I just want to transfer to the community college with out having to owe for things that my loans have already paid off... Please help me if you can.
They did this to my mom as well... Except in her situation her academic and financial counselor were working together to embezzle money from students. So one day she got a check in the mail for the amounts that they had taken from her, and the counselors were never heard from again... I guess UOP didn't get their fare share of THAT embezzlement and got a little upset.
UOP is not about education, it is about money... Don't waste your time or money.
I am 22 and I just want to finish school and get the education that I DESERVE... UOP is trying as hard as they can to try and prevent this from happening for me.: (
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