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I was told so many lies

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:30:38 +0000

I was told so many lies and pressured daily to just DO it, they stuck me in a 5 week SHORT TERM that barley taught me anything yet they charged me $4,000 for this short term, then 4000 for the next term. They keep switching employees so every time i contact them iam talking to someone else…They need to be held accountable for their lies! – Westwood College Student, Connecticut

I have been lied to, BIG TIME

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:25:56 +0000

I feel like I have been lied to, BIG TIME! – Westwood College Student Connecticut

$100,000 in student loan debt

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:23:40 +0000

After 3 years of attending, I owe what seems to be getting closer and closer to $100,000 in student loan debt for a useless degree for a career field that doesn’t pay half in a year than the cost of that ‘education.’ – Westwood College Student from Washington State

My degree is worth nothing

admin — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:12:00 +0000

I was told then by Kathy Wallace (enrollment rep.) that there would be no problem with transferring my credits from westwood to CU to continue on and recieve my masters in Architecture, that they were accredited and cheeper ….

I later found out around 2 or 3 months before I graduated from my 21 month program that, Not only had they lied about cost but i cannot transfer my credits anywhere to continue my degree.

Westwood held a school meeting and told everyone that they no longer were accredited but that they should have the accredidation back within 6 months and we would all then be ‘grandfathered’ in and our credits would then become transferrable.

This of coarse, has yet to occur. This upset me very much because then i couldnt figure out what the hell i paid for in the first place. Not only was my degree worth nothing but I am in debt for 35000 dollars (and getting higher) because of it.

I, at first, had the apex loan that they lied to me about and said it would only be at 6% and later turned out to be at 18% interstest rate.

– Westwood College Denver Student

My loans are killing me

admin — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:10:11 +0000

It was going to be too much and they lied to me at admission as far as their history, reputation, my out come after graduating and rest of my life….my loans are killing me.

– Westwood College Dallas Student

Victim of bait and switch

admin — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:58:51 +0000

I was a victim of bait and switch by Westwood College.

– Westwood College Chicago Student

Finally figured out the scam they are running

admin — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:52:40 +0000

I finally figured out the scam they are running, and I am out of $45,000.

– Chicago, IL

Terrible teaching practices and standards

admin — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:49:43 +0000

In these two terms, I managed to develop an opinion of terrible teaching practices and standards, and flat out lying about financial affairs at least in regards to my own. … I’m being charged for Apex loans I never agreed to, and I was heavily harassed by bill collectors….I was encouraged on at least one occasion to forge my own attendance on a day that I had to miss most of as well.

– Westwood College Denver Student

Westwood College Investigation – ABC World News

admin — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 13:15:01 +0000

Everything I was told by my recruiter was a lie

admin — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:20:45 +0000

Everything i was told by my recruiter was a lie….

After my first day of school, she promptly disappeared and i learned from one of my teachers in the game industry that you don’t make 100k a year off the bat like westwood promised, but rather you’d have to be in the industry upwards of 15 years to even think about that kind of money.

He then suggested to me that ‘if i really wanted a quality art degree, go to Denver community. It’s cheaper’…

After gaining massive debt myself, and finding immense dissatisfaction with my classes, i decided westwood wasn’t for me. It was at the point that they tried their utmost to coax me to stay, even suggesting i try westwood online in ny. I did westwood online for a semester, and it was TERRIBLE….The interest rates were off, and did not match the amounts i was paying. I always felt that i was wronged somehow at westwood….it’s a relief to know that i wasn’t the only one wronged.

– Westwood College Denver North Student