Hi my name is [redacted] I paid $to take online classes to recieve my high school diploma so that I can sign up for the [redacted] & collegeBefore I paid I asked them do colleges trade school [redacted] or hospitals takes there diploma they told me yes so I proceeded to pay for the classes and get my diplomaI graduated over a year agoI have not been able to get into any college, join the [redacted] *** get a job in the hospital even take a class in a trade school ALL SCHOOLS COLLEGES [redacted] *** EVEN HOSPITALS DENIED THIS DIPLOMAEvery where I went does not accept this diplomaNO WHERE ACCEPTS THIS DIPLOMA AND I PAID for something useless and they will not refund me my money back
I reached out to Penn Foster College to officially withdraw after completing nearly semesters towards an online Bachelor’s Degree in Business ManagementThe reason why I completed so many semesters so quickly was that I had transferred a number of credits from previously attended school and I worked non-stop on completing my degree in a timely manner My reason for withdrawing was that I have other student loans currently out and I needed to defer payment on them while attending Penn Foster and paying them monthlyI could not afford bothAfter submitting all of the necessary paperwork to the studentloans.gov agency, I was told that my deferment would not be granted because Penn Foster is not an accredited learning institution and they do not recognize them as a part of the Higher Learning Commission Upon learning that the department of education does not recognize them as a regionally accredited college, I learned that my current employer would not eitherThe reason for goin
I am so disappointed in Penn Foster , I regret considerably for enrolling at this school I started out this program with a goal of finishingBut I soon realized I don't have time for online school right now and that eventually going to real classes would be a better approach for meThis school is so slow in sending out your materials , they told me there was usually a 6-week waiting period between classes for my shipments to arrive..again, a complete waste of my time and the the big reason is THEY ARE NOT ACCREDITED IN MY COUNTRY ( [redacted] ) I contact them to cancelled my enrollment , they cancel my account but after days Penn foster sent me a letter saying I owe $ and must pay Penn Foster never sent me anything to start my course but they want my money.That is a scam in my opinion
I have not been able to reach anybody at any numbers provided I get the automated system who fails to recognize me or transfer me If I do get transferred its to a *full [redacted] voicemail boxI have lost a job opportunity in law enforcement due to not being able to supply my diploma and transcripts My last time the automated system said “nobody was available due to a staff meeting” What kind of school closes the phones down for a staff meeting
Penn Foster sent an account to collections, [redacted] , stating that I owed them $for a Medical Billing and Coding program I have an email from Penn Foster stating that I only owed $and not $ The school never contacted me to tell me they were sending this account to collections The classes are self-taughtYou take multiple choice tests online Which you can repeat if you first fail them Penn Foster does not place any effort any educating anyone through their mock education system If you need assistance you have to email someone, maybe a qualifed teacher who emails you back in a week, by that time you are late in your computerized assignments This is definitely not a quality education and the courses are not transferable and does not meet the state community college standards Time and money was basically wasted!
I was enrolled in courses at Penn Foster Career School in the Medical Assisting programBefore beginning the program, I spoke with a customer service representative from the school about the school's national accredidation to ensure it was valid in my state so I could take a state board in my state and be a Certified Medical Assistant once I was finished with the courseworkAfter attending two of the three semesters, I was told by the advisors at [redacted] in Pendleton, South Carolina that Penn Foster Career School is not accredited with the necessary critera for me to be able to sit in an exam and take a state board for certificationUpon realizing this information, I called the school contact number and spoke with several different people (none of the employees knew who to transfer me to to resolve my issue)Finally, I spoke to a woman who told me I could cancel the program and only pay for courses I completed and materials I received so I didI finished the p
This company has submitted an amount to [redacted] for $They stated I opened this account in November of I have nothing to do with this company and They must remove this from my record at [redacted]
I have attempted to end my enrollment with Penn foster on several occasions to no availThey inform me that my account is no longer active, but send mail attempting to change my decisionI am owed a refund in the amount of $according to them, however I can't get them to give the refundOver the course of a few months I have had approximately phone calls with student care regarding thisMy bank, ( [redacted] federal savings bank) made the change to [redacted] and the new chip cards, changing my billing info when doing soPenn foster told me I needed the bank to provide documentation on why my card info changedI contacted my bank, and they faxed all the documentation they could provide to Penn fosterHowever, Penn foster states that the paperwork didn't meet their needs and refuse to change my billing info accordingly to my new debit infoIn lieu of being refunded via original payment form I have been told, (also in writing), that I can receive a check for these fundsThey have not
I started Veterinary Assistant program after asking the question "do you have veterinary offices you are contracted with in my area?" they said yes there are two different ones but could not tell me until I was further along in the program So I could not check After I completed my written part of the program, I was given the names of the clinics One is Banfield They categorically deny offering any assistance with externship for the VA program However they do handle the DVM and CVA programs So that was one I could not use Next one was [redacted] clinics We have three in our county One took my info and then when I was ready to start decided last minute not to take me on because she was not getting paid, never heard of Penn Foster and was being paid by our local StPete College to be a preceptor I proceeded to call all the other ***'s in my county and other surrounding counties No takers, never heard of Penn Foster, did not want to hear about it and "too much paperwork" n
I was taking a high school diploma class with Penn Foster High SchoolI fell behind a few payments and spoke to several customer service representatives on when I can start back paying for my tuitionI paid towards tuitionThey sent my payments to a collection agency for ( [redacted] corporation)I have been paying themfirst months and intending on paying a month after that
My daughter [redacted] Attends this school and I contacted someone back in Jan and Feb of stating I didnt want anymore automatic payments to be taken outI mad that clear in Feb Well in payments have been being taken out since January that I requested not to be taken out anymoreMy daughter isnt doing the schooling through them anymoreAnd when I signed her up in November the rep I spoke to said he could do a month after the dollar promotion Well I was lied to about that also I am highly disappointed in being lied to not only once but times
I sent the school a payment of one hundred and ten dollars on March 13th, The payments are to be made to the school but sent to a payment processing center in [redacted] A week later I received an e-mail stating that my account was past dueUpon going to the student website I saw that they said due to weather all payments, shipments, etc would be lateI called the school and was told not to worry as the payment center was receiving mail late due to the weather Two weeks after I sent my payment the school sent me a letter saying that they still had not received my paymentAgain I called and was told not to worry as the processing center was behind schedule due to weather issues and that they would make a note on my account a payment was sent outBy the end of March, the school still had not received my paymentI called again explaining that the payment was sent out on March 13th and it was in the form of a check written on my Mother's accountThat she had a copy of the copy o
I contacted the school to let them know that I had surgery and that my recovery process had hindered me completing the course and that I would not be continuingI have received robot calls 8AM in the morning from the school, derogatory letters from the school finance department I emailed them and gave them the approximate date that I cancelled and who I spoke with I received a Derogatory letter from a gentleman name MrB [redacted] demanding that I pay $in Jan I emailed him and stated I cancelled and that I dont owe $Then I got a Letter from Mark S [redacted] in Feb and Chris E [redacted] in March I stated that I didn't owe for what I didn't finishMy last payment was in July and I stated then I was not continuing Then they told me I owe $cancellation fee? I told them I am on a fixed income and if I do owe that it would be paid in paymentsThis was in February I just today received a derogatory letter from the school again from Chris E [redacted] demandi
On 7/18/17, I was told I would be issued a refund of but had to wait days In the letter it states my credit card would be credited or a check under separate cover They also debited an additional in error and I was told that there was also a day wait Now that I have waited my days (which I do not agree with anyways) The school is saying I need to wait an additional to weeks for it to be processed This is unethical and I want my refund check The hold time to talk to someone was hours, spoke to the supervisor [redacted] who was unempathetic and disconcerned He would not transfer me to [redacted] or to the office of [redacted] saying they do not take calls They also have no email
Penn foster offer a Medical coding online courseI accepted my enrollment contract on 9/30/and the program expired 12/29/Upon completion of passing the program with a grade of and your tuition is paid in fullI have completed the program with a grade average, and my tuition has been paid since 11/07/All the assignments was computerized and the system automatically grades youWhen I had reached the end of the program the instructor created a final using [redacted] creating questions divided into modulesThe instructor instruction concisely read, answer the questions and take a screenshot of your answer and the system grade save it in a [redacted] document, and [redacted] was suggested to compressed the large fileI answer, saved the work in a zip file, in [redacted] and [redacted] documents, screenshot all questions and saved submitted it as instructed, Each time I sent it to the instructor which has been sent times it has been sent back without a feedbackI spoke
Hello, My son [redacted] was enrolled in this school for a couple months We decided to cancel it and was given a confirmation letter along with the amount to be refunded in the amount of $something dollars I’ve been waiting for the check for months now and every time we call are given the “run around” We are still being told that it is processing However, when I called the last time on 10/11/18, I was told that they had no record of me (his mom) on the account I am the person who was paying for everything The refund should be coming to me However, the student services account manager Andrew was extremely rude and would not provide information to me as to when the refund was processed He stated that his supervisors name is Teresa T and that she was unavailable I would simply like a refund since we do not want to be enrolled at the school and according to their policy, we are able to have a 100% refund if we decide to cancel
My name is [redacted] and I am having a problem that I need your help with I had my son, [redacted] ***, registered in a homeschooling program at Penn Foster High School located in Scranton PA This was an online program that I paid for using an automatic debit from my checking account I withdrew him from school in February and I was told that I was due to receive a refund of $ They told me it would take to weeks to process and then they would mail me a check I called back in late March and they told me that something went wrong during processing and that they had to start all over with another to week wait for me I then called for a copy of his transcript on April They sent me the official transcript within days I called back today and asked if they had mailed the check yet They told me that they had an address correction on April that's why they did not mail my check I was told it will be another weeks
I registered for [redacted] Jan Today is Feb and I have yet to have received a confirmation emailI have called numerous times only to get a recorded message that there's a meeting and to call back in two hoursIt has been the same message since I registeredI have emailed the staff there back and forth and received no resultsI am really considering cancelling my registration for this courseThe customer service so far has been unacceptable!! I should have received a confirmation and the course available to me within the next day...Here we are almost weeks later and I haven't heard a thing or haven't been able to reach themNOT IMPRESSED!!!
I am currently enrolled in Penn Foster's vet assistant program I have completed all my exams and course work with 93% in the program I started my externship at local vet , however after spending weeks and completing over hours , I was told by my site supervisor that they could no longer help me do to the extensive list my school requires me to completeThe list is filled with tasks that are not entry level or even tasks that a vet assistant would normally performThis program requires no liability insurance I was offered no help or support from the school to find a site I questioned them about concerns I had about some of tasks being a liability issue but got no response Many of tasks on the list are very out dated but I am required to get these tasks checked off The school is partnered with both [redacted] and [redacted] hopitals , however none of the locations near me would even except Penn Foster Students None of tasks I completed during the time will count towards my f
This company misrepresents their coursesWhen contacted they state that courses and course credits are transferable to other institutionsI then found out after signing up in fact this was not the case these courses credits ARE NOT transferable to other institutionsAs soon as I discovered this I cancelled the classHowever, upon doing so they try to get you to pay a ridiculous about of money I did not even finish half the program for the simple fact the credit wouldn't transfer even though I was initially told it wouldFurthermore, I never even Received any books from this institution They use advertising and given even more misleading information when you call and talk directly with a customer service agentThey basically tell you want you want to hear to get you to sign up, then once you sign up you find out the truth
Hi my name is [redacted] I paid $to take online classes to recieve my high school diploma so that I can sign up for the [redacted] & collegeBefore I paid I asked them do colleges trade school [redacted] or hospitals takes there diploma they told me yes so I proceeded to pay for the classes and get my diplomaI graduated over a year agoI have not been able to get into any college, join the [redacted] *** get a job in the hospital even take a class in a trade school ALL SCHOOLS COLLEGES [redacted] *** EVEN HOSPITALS DENIED THIS DIPLOMAEvery where I went does not accept this diplomaNO WHERE ACCEPTS THIS DIPLOMA AND I PAID for something useless and they will not refund me my money back
I reached out to Penn Foster College to officially withdraw after completing nearly semesters towards an online Bachelor’s Degree in Business ManagementThe reason why I completed so many semesters so quickly was that I had transferred a number of credits from previously attended school and I worked non-stop on completing my degree in a timely manner My reason for withdrawing was that I have other student loans currently out and I needed to defer payment on them while attending Penn Foster and paying them monthlyI could not afford bothAfter submitting all of the necessary paperwork to the studentloans.gov agency, I was told that my deferment would not be granted because Penn Foster is not an accredited learning institution and they do not recognize them as a part of the Higher Learning Commission Upon learning that the department of education does not recognize them as a regionally accredited college, I learned that my current employer would not eitherThe reason for goin
I am so disappointed in Penn Foster , I regret considerably for enrolling at this school I started out this program with a goal of finishingBut I soon realized I don't have time for online school right now and that eventually going to real classes would be a better approach for meThis school is so slow in sending out your materials , they told me there was usually a 6-week waiting period between classes for my shipments to arrive..again, a complete waste of my time and the the big reason is THEY ARE NOT ACCREDITED IN MY COUNTRY ( [redacted] ) I contact them to cancelled my enrollment , they cancel my account but after days Penn foster sent me a letter saying I owe $ and must pay Penn Foster never sent me anything to start my course but they want my money.That is a scam in my opinion
I have not been able to reach anybody at any numbers provided I get the automated system who fails to recognize me or transfer me If I do get transferred its to a *full [redacted] voicemail boxI have lost a job opportunity in law enforcement due to not being able to supply my diploma and transcripts My last time the automated system said “nobody was available due to a staff meeting” What kind of school closes the phones down for a staff meeting
Penn Foster sent an account to collections, [redacted] , stating that I owed them $for a Medical Billing and Coding program I have an email from Penn Foster stating that I only owed $and not $ The school never contacted me to tell me they were sending this account to collections The classes are self-taughtYou take multiple choice tests online Which you can repeat if you first fail them Penn Foster does not place any effort any educating anyone through their mock education system If you need assistance you have to email someone, maybe a qualifed teacher who emails you back in a week, by that time you are late in your computerized assignments This is definitely not a quality education and the courses are not transferable and does not meet the state community college standards Time and money was basically wasted!
I was enrolled in courses at Penn Foster Career School in the Medical Assisting programBefore beginning the program, I spoke with a customer service representative from the school about the school's national accredidation to ensure it was valid in my state so I could take a state board in my state and be a Certified Medical Assistant once I was finished with the courseworkAfter attending two of the three semesters, I was told by the advisors at [redacted] in Pendleton, South Carolina that Penn Foster Career School is not accredited with the necessary critera for me to be able to sit in an exam and take a state board for certificationUpon realizing this information, I called the school contact number and spoke with several different people (none of the employees knew who to transfer me to to resolve my issue)Finally, I spoke to a woman who told me I could cancel the program and only pay for courses I completed and materials I received so I didI finished the p
This company has submitted an amount to [redacted] for $They stated I opened this account in November of I have nothing to do with this company and They must remove this from my record at [redacted]
I have attempted to end my enrollment with Penn foster on several occasions to no availThey inform me that my account is no longer active, but send mail attempting to change my decisionI am owed a refund in the amount of $according to them, however I can't get them to give the refundOver the course of a few months I have had approximately phone calls with student care regarding thisMy bank, ( [redacted] federal savings bank) made the change to [redacted] and the new chip cards, changing my billing info when doing soPenn foster told me I needed the bank to provide documentation on why my card info changedI contacted my bank, and they faxed all the documentation they could provide to Penn fosterHowever, Penn foster states that the paperwork didn't meet their needs and refuse to change my billing info accordingly to my new debit infoIn lieu of being refunded via original payment form I have been told, (also in writing), that I can receive a check for these fundsThey have not
I started Veterinary Assistant program after asking the question "do you have veterinary offices you are contracted with in my area?" they said yes there are two different ones but could not tell me until I was further along in the program So I could not check After I completed my written part of the program, I was given the names of the clinics One is Banfield They categorically deny offering any assistance with externship for the VA program However they do handle the DVM and CVA programs So that was one I could not use Next one was [redacted] clinics We have three in our county One took my info and then when I was ready to start decided last minute not to take me on because she was not getting paid, never heard of Penn Foster and was being paid by our local StPete College to be a preceptor I proceeded to call all the other ***'s in my county and other surrounding counties No takers, never heard of Penn Foster, did not want to hear about it and "too much paperwork" n
I was taking a high school diploma class with Penn Foster High SchoolI fell behind a few payments and spoke to several customer service representatives on when I can start back paying for my tuitionI paid towards tuitionThey sent my payments to a collection agency for ( [redacted] corporation)I have been paying themfirst months and intending on paying a month after that
My daughter [redacted] Attends this school and I contacted someone back in Jan and Feb of stating I didnt want anymore automatic payments to be taken outI mad that clear in Feb Well in payments have been being taken out since January that I requested not to be taken out anymoreMy daughter isnt doing the schooling through them anymoreAnd when I signed her up in November the rep I spoke to said he could do a month after the dollar promotion Well I was lied to about that also I am highly disappointed in being lied to not only once but times
I sent the school a payment of one hundred and ten dollars on March 13th, The payments are to be made to the school but sent to a payment processing center in [redacted] A week later I received an e-mail stating that my account was past dueUpon going to the student website I saw that they said due to weather all payments, shipments, etc would be lateI called the school and was told not to worry as the payment center was receiving mail late due to the weather Two weeks after I sent my payment the school sent me a letter saying that they still had not received my paymentAgain I called and was told not to worry as the processing center was behind schedule due to weather issues and that they would make a note on my account a payment was sent outBy the end of March, the school still had not received my paymentI called again explaining that the payment was sent out on March 13th and it was in the form of a check written on my Mother's accountThat she had a copy of the copy o
I contacted the school to let them know that I had surgery and that my recovery process had hindered me completing the course and that I would not be continuingI have received robot calls 8AM in the morning from the school, derogatory letters from the school finance department I emailed them and gave them the approximate date that I cancelled and who I spoke with I received a Derogatory letter from a gentleman name MrB [redacted] demanding that I pay $in Jan I emailed him and stated I cancelled and that I dont owe $Then I got a Letter from Mark S [redacted] in Feb and Chris E [redacted] in March I stated that I didn't owe for what I didn't finishMy last payment was in July and I stated then I was not continuing Then they told me I owe $cancellation fee? I told them I am on a fixed income and if I do owe that it would be paid in paymentsThis was in February I just today received a derogatory letter from the school again from Chris E [redacted] demandi
On 7/18/17, I was told I would be issued a refund of but had to wait days In the letter it states my credit card would be credited or a check under separate cover They also debited an additional in error and I was told that there was also a day wait Now that I have waited my days (which I do not agree with anyways) The school is saying I need to wait an additional to weeks for it to be processed This is unethical and I want my refund check The hold time to talk to someone was hours, spoke to the supervisor [redacted] who was unempathetic and disconcerned He would not transfer me to [redacted] or to the office of [redacted] saying they do not take calls They also have no email
Penn foster offer a Medical coding online courseI accepted my enrollment contract on 9/30/and the program expired 12/29/Upon completion of passing the program with a grade of and your tuition is paid in fullI have completed the program with a grade average, and my tuition has been paid since 11/07/All the assignments was computerized and the system automatically grades youWhen I had reached the end of the program the instructor created a final using [redacted] creating questions divided into modulesThe instructor instruction concisely read, answer the questions and take a screenshot of your answer and the system grade save it in a [redacted] document, and [redacted] was suggested to compressed the large fileI answer, saved the work in a zip file, in [redacted] and [redacted] documents, screenshot all questions and saved submitted it as instructed, Each time I sent it to the instructor which has been sent times it has been sent back without a feedbackI spoke
Hello, My son [redacted] was enrolled in this school for a couple months We decided to cancel it and was given a confirmation letter along with the amount to be refunded in the amount of $something dollars I’ve been waiting for the check for months now and every time we call are given the “run around” We are still being told that it is processing However, when I called the last time on 10/11/18, I was told that they had no record of me (his mom) on the account I am the person who was paying for everything The refund should be coming to me However, the student services account manager Andrew was extremely rude and would not provide information to me as to when the refund was processed He stated that his supervisors name is Teresa T and that she was unavailable I would simply like a refund since we do not want to be enrolled at the school and according to their policy, we are able to have a 100% refund if we decide to cancel
My name is [redacted] and I am having a problem that I need your help with I had my son, [redacted] ***, registered in a homeschooling program at Penn Foster High School located in Scranton PA This was an online program that I paid for using an automatic debit from my checking account I withdrew him from school in February and I was told that I was due to receive a refund of $ They told me it would take to weeks to process and then they would mail me a check I called back in late March and they told me that something went wrong during processing and that they had to start all over with another to week wait for me I then called for a copy of his transcript on April They sent me the official transcript within days I called back today and asked if they had mailed the check yet They told me that they had an address correction on April that's why they did not mail my check I was told it will be another weeks
I registered for [redacted] Jan Today is Feb and I have yet to have received a confirmation emailI have called numerous times only to get a recorded message that there's a meeting and to call back in two hoursIt has been the same message since I registeredI have emailed the staff there back and forth and received no resultsI am really considering cancelling my registration for this courseThe customer service so far has been unacceptable!! I should have received a confirmation and the course available to me within the next day...Here we are almost weeks later and I haven't heard a thing or haven't been able to reach themNOT IMPRESSED!!!
I am currently enrolled in Penn Foster's vet assistant program I have completed all my exams and course work with 93% in the program I started my externship at local vet , however after spending weeks and completing over hours , I was told by my site supervisor that they could no longer help me do to the extensive list my school requires me to completeThe list is filled with tasks that are not entry level or even tasks that a vet assistant would normally performThis program requires no liability insurance I was offered no help or support from the school to find a site I questioned them about concerns I had about some of tasks being a liability issue but got no response Many of tasks on the list are very out dated but I am required to get these tasks checked off The school is partnered with both [redacted] and [redacted] hopitals , however none of the locations near me would even except Penn Foster Students None of tasks I completed during the time will count towards my f
This company misrepresents their coursesWhen contacted they state that courses and course credits are transferable to other institutionsI then found out after signing up in fact this was not the case these courses credits ARE NOT transferable to other institutionsAs soon as I discovered this I cancelled the classHowever, upon doing so they try to get you to pay a ridiculous about of money I did not even finish half the program for the simple fact the credit wouldn't transfer even though I was initially told it wouldFurthermore, I never even Received any books from this institution They use advertising and given even more misleading information when you call and talk directly with a customer service agentThey basically tell you want you want to hear to get you to sign up, then once you sign up you find out the truth