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Reasons Why You Should Think Twice Before Attending Crown College and other non-profit educational institutions. |
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Reasons Why You Should Think Twice Before Attending Crown College and other non-profit educational institutions. |
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Admission and Academic Standards
Crown College, like all for-profit schools, are business and therefore have a huge incentive to attract and retain paying customers, i.e., students. Consequently, they are inclined to admit every prospective student without regard to their aptitude or ability to learn. Likewise they inclined to not expel students for poor academic performance or absenteeism since that would deprive them of revenue. This is reflected in the value of your degree. Employers and other schools are aware of this situation and might wonder whether your grades were actually earned. Crown College is hardly the first for-profit educational institutional which has been accused of grade inflation.
Unreliable Admission Representatives
Crown College's admission representatives do not have your interest at heart. They work for the school and as the lawsuits and complaints attest, you cannot rely on them to tell you the truth never mind give you any form of guidance. That goes the same for many of the instructors. Even those who knew a fraud was being perpetuated did not step forward for concern they might lose their jobs or suffer the wrath of John Wabel. Do you want to get an education at a school where you can not trust any one to look after your interest?
Transferability of Credits and Degrees
As explained thoroughly
under accreditation,
lawsuits and complaints,
Crown College's credits are not accepted by the vast majority of regionally
accredited schools. You will be paying $17,500 for a degree and
credits which you will have a great deal of trouble transferring should you
decide that you want to further your education. You could go to
a community college and pay one-fourth of that and have a regionally
accredited degree.
Lack of
Placement Services
Crown College has as 10 to 1
ratio of people in admissions and financial aid versus placement. They
have one person in the placement department. This is because
they are geared to enrolling students and getting their money and
unconcerned about everything else. Joanne Black and Shyla Martinez
both plaintiffs went to Crown College because they were told that they had a
high placement rate. Well Adrienne Rocco informed you that in
her complaint and declaration
that Crown College lied about their placement rate. Crown is more
concerned about talking to people who already have jobs, regardless of what
those jobs and whether or not they are related to Crown College's education.
Read about how many for-profit placement departments work in this report
from the
Consumer Law Center and this
article on placement
services at AIC from. When Shyla
Martinez went to seek the assistance of the placement services she was told
to look in the want ads. Crown College has very few contacts among
employers and a very bad reputation thanks to three successful lawsuits.
Call prospective employers and ask them what they would think of your Crown
College degree before enter Crown.
Expense
As mentioned before,
the price bachelor and associate degrees at Crown College are $17,500 and
$34,000 respectively. That is much more than what a community college
would cost you. Look at the expenses of public universities and
community colleges and you will find Crown College to be extraordinarily
expensive. Think about the money you are spending or more importantly,
borrowing! You will not be able to discharge it in bankruptcy!
Education is important, do not waste borrowed money on an ill-suited one.
Crown College has been on probation off an on throughout 2005 and is currently on probation. In settling the last of the litigation cases against it professed to be having financial problems. John Wabel even threatened to bankrupt Crown College or sell the school. Now these could simply been tactics used to reduce the size of the settlement but he could be serious. However, they could lose their ACCSCT accreditation and its students would no longer be eligible for financial aid. If Mr. Wabel were to sell the school, Crown College would lose their exemption from oversite by the Higher Education Board and one wonders if it would be able to survive if it had to meet the HEB's strict requirements. Crown College, thanks to the negative publicity generated by its very recent legal troubles which was reported in many publications all over the internet, does not have the best of reputations. A student could select a school with a better reputation and be more assured of its continued existence.
schools only to find out when they graduated that this was not the case.
The
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a bevy of witnesses including former students, former instructors and
expert witnesses from University of Washington who were ready to
testify. Mr. Wabel decided to settle the case on the eve of
trial. The settlement was confidential but the scuttlebutt was
that they received their loan money back.