Another Corinthian accreditation lawsuit (ACICS not SACS)

[dhfr]

Corinthian discloses new accreditation lawsuit (http://yahoo.reuters.com/financeQuoteCompanyNewsArticle.jhtml?duid=mtfh2512 5_2005-03-09_17-29-45_n09253201_newsml)

[DegreeSeeker]

Corinthian discloses new accreditation lawsuit (http://yahoo.reuters.com/financeQuoteCompanyNewsArticle.jhtml?duid=mtfh2512 5_2005-03-09_17-29-45_n09253201_newsml)


I seem to remember something like this on another forum. The guy on the other lawsuit seemed very sleazy and would not take any accountability for his actions.

[Jay2]

I seem to remember something like this on another forum. The guy on the other lawsuit seemed very sleazy and would not take any accountability for his actions.

Yes, I remember the guy very well. He seemed more interested in schools that wouldn't accept his credits from FMU than in those we told him about that would. We offered him some good choices but he always came up with excuses why they were not what he wanted. I suspect he was more about the money than finding another school. FMU is much too high in cost for my taste. There are cheaper schools out there, Ashworth College being one. When people get hot for schools they often jump into the first open bed, a mistake. Check to be sure a school is what you want. Just because the school tells you it is what you need doesn't make it so. The salesmen are, like at a used car dealership, there to present the best parts the school has to offer. If you buy their song and dance without doing some serious checking and asking questions, don't be surprised when you get a nice fat surprise. FMU probably works for most people but it is not for everyone. :o

[Redlyne Racer]

...The salesmen are, like at a used car dealership, there to present the best parts the school has to offer. If you buy their song and dance without doing some serious checking and asking questions, don't be surprised when you get a nice fat surprise. FMU probably works for most people but it is not for everyone. :o

Had to laugh at your juxtaposition of hard selling FMU with Ashworth. The latter is low key to the point of paralysis. They won't answer questions unless you apply (i.e., pay the $99 application fee). You can't get any straight answers from them on topics such as transfer credit without applying. Even when you couch the questions in terms like, "ya know, if I could get transfer credit for this class I'd sign up right now" they say "send in the $99 and we'll let you know." They don't exactly say that by asking you are interrupting something far more important, like somebody's donut break, but that's the impression you get.

In contrast, I had similar questions about transfer credit of St. Thomas University, in Florida. They wanted, I think, $100 to apply. I said I wasn't going to pay $100 to get answers to simple questions. They put me on the phone with the program director himself, and he spent quite a bit of time explaining the program, the course sequence, and specifically identified the courses for which I'd get transfer credit. First class all the way. I decided to go in a different direction, but I'd recommend that program to anyone.

I don't know what goes on a FMU, but as you noted it seems expensive for what you get. It's hard to believe there are people in college who are too dumb to check on their school's accreditation before writing the check. It takes, what, all of 30 seconds to pull up the CHEA site?