I recently ran my credit report only to find out that my score had decreased significantly due to there being multiple collection accounts on my *** report, all referencing Penn FosterI'm in the process of purchasing a home and have since had to stop searching all together since I can't even obtain a pre-approval letter from how much my score dropped because of thisI reached out to Penn Foster inquiring on these accounts and what to do to get this correctedI was instructed to send in a copy of my drivers license and social security card so that they could investigate and remove these erroneous accountsThe representative stated that because of their erroneous nature they would be removed very quicklyHowever, due to these accounts not belonging to me I don't feel comfortable just sending out a copy of such delicate/confidential information to any random company and need to have this corrected as soon as possible without having to send in personal documentsIt really is no
I began attending Penn Foster in Novof 2015, as a tribute to my late Uncle Who passed away and all he wanted was for me to graduate high school and receive a diplomaHe left me a pretty good chunk of money, and let me tell you, This stupid school now has if not most at least a quarter of iti was paying a week on top of the or I put downbucks for retakes which I did at least timesthen you gotta pay more as graduation starts coming and let me tell you, my bill say I ONLY OWE more dollars?!?!?! it says I only paid bucks?!?!?! no where did all the rest of the money gobecause Ive spent close to with this school alonebut I still owe 300?! I asked for a refund back and they claim they cant under no exception give me a single dime to my name backWTF? this school claims my GPA is a oh waitwtf I had to immediately change school which I am soooo happy I didi may have started school alllll over again but it was so worth the GPA tha
I started a course in December and cancelled the course in early FebruaryMy employer paid for the tuition thru a contractor and payment was made in fullHowever when requesting the refund to my employer I was told many occasions that the payment was sent and my company never receivedHowever then speaking to someone in accounting that the refund payment was never sentIt has now been months past when the refund to my company was supposedly sent only to find out it never wasI’ve left multiple messages with their accounting team and never get a response or I told they the person who does the refunds isn’t thereSince this occurred I’ve had to drop out of a masters degree program because the refund was never made and my company will not allow additional tuition until this refund is received and this course is paid in fullI need this handled ASAP before I hire an attorney to handle this in an expedited manner
In either for PENN FOSTER to release my transcript and send it to another collegeI have to pay the full balance so I did pay them so I can transfer my credits to the College I'm planning to go toAfter months they sent me a bill saying I still owe them $for a remaining balanceI have all the documents and bank statement as my proof that I paid everything off
I was discharged from the military on June 1, due to back issues , I decided to do an online course with Penn Foster for Veterinary Assistant
I have completed all my required course work with the exception of the externship which I am unable to perform due to my back injury I have refused to make any payment until I either received my diploma and take my veterinary assistant certification exam or get full refund of the money I paid out Please Note I did state to them that I have sustained a back injury while I was deployed overseas After all this they sent my bill to a collection agancy ,which note was paid in fullI checked my credit report due to this reporting dropped my credit score and Penn foster refused to remove it from credit reporting by *** *** and ***
I signed up for an online grooming certification course on 04/13/I started the course that same day, after completing the first "study unit" the program offers (this unit just goes over basically HOW to use Penn Foster's online program, how to get help if needed, etc)After completing the first unit, I tried to start the secondThe second lesson will not load on my computer (which meets all necessary hardware requirements as listed by Penn Foster)On 04/13/I started trying to contact Penn Foster for assistance to get the program to workI have spent the last week trying to get tech support or a Student CARE supervisor to contact me back to resolve this issueEveryday since the 13th I have been told that I would be contacted the next day or with in hoursThe information I have gotten from various employees with Penn Foster has been VERY inconsistent, each person I talk to tells me a different storyThe only consistency has been, every one of the staff members has told m
I signed up for classes but cancelled within the allotted time and was refunded the fee to sign up then on June 16th Penn Foster debited my account I immediately called and was told I would have the returned to my account within business days It is now July and I have not received the refund I called the school and was on hold for over minutes only to be told I would have my refund in business days I spoke to Patricia who said that my refund was literally just processed an hour before I calledThis is unacceptable they need to return my payment I realize that is not a lot of money but it is the principal it has been over business days and now I'm told I have to wait an additional days Unacceptable.Thank you*** ***###-###-####
I was a student at Penn Foster since March of I paid $1,201.00, and I completed all the required assignments & testsHowever I have received nothing in returnNo degree! No communication! No Nothing! Where is my $1,201.00? Or where is my degree? I have been swindled before by a company called *** *** which was not accreditedThey swindled hundreds of dollars from meI feel Penn Foster is doing the sameI have tried to contact Penn Foster on several occasions recently to get an updateAfter I was on hold for nearly one hour I got a recording from Penn Foster that said "We are currently closed" and I got disconnectedThis is extremely scary how these so-called companies swindle money out of hard working people like myselfSomething has to be done before they keep doing this to other people$1,is a good chunk of change
I enrolled both of my daughters to the pharmacy tech program after speaking to a representative that sold us on the program only to find out most of what was promised was not what we receivedEmails were not returned for weeks therefore extending the program as far as they couldThe promised externship process was a nightmare that took to get toWe paid for liability insurance, background checks, physical exams and study materials all of which were hundreds of dollars we were never warned of above the cost of the program only to find out nine of those things were required in our state or of any useWe have also found out as we relocated out of state Penn fosters supposed accreditation is not recognized therefore to work in our state they will have to go to pharmacy tech training and pay for schooling all over againWe wasted mos and a lot of money and now aren't able to work in the fieldThis was the worst experience and both my girls are now left joblesss
I enrolled into what I was told was the Medical Administrative Assistant program at Penn FosterI spent an entire year doing all the course work, only to discover that I had been signed up for the wrong courseWhen I received my certificate I emailed them, and they stated that I had in fact been signed up for the wrong programI called and spoke to a representative who informed me that there was nothing monetarily that they could do, and I would have to pay the FULL COST to take the correct programThis is insaneThey enrolled me into the wrong program
I signed up for the standard high school diploma program, advertised on their website as ($1,- w/ credit card auto pay) In the pre-sioffer, I was guaranteed ($- in credits, after they had reviewed my faxed transcript) and then additionally I was offered a payment-match program - where they would match my down payment ($200) within business days
I paid $down, instead of the $down payment - for the payment-match programThey have mailed me two contracts to sign, that indicate my cost is $1,(instead of the $1,advertised on their website) - so I have refused to sign themIt has been business days and I have not received the (transcript credit of $150) or the payment-match credit of ($to match my initial down payment)
My transcripts were faxed on (04/18/2016) and a hard copy was mailed on 04/20/- verified by my previous school(*** *** *** School, Clanton Alabama ***) - ###-###-####
I am extremely confident in my
I was enticed to sign up for school by the low fee of for the first month promotionThe next day I logged in and it said tuition paid in fullI had next to nothing in my bank account under (400.00) and it over drew me and took my check deposited by my job that dayI called in to see about what penn foster could do and they said you can wait days and we will refund it I then went to my bank (chase) who said it is noting they can do because they gave me an allotted time for refundI THEN RETURNED TO MY JOB where I COULD CALL THEM AGAIN AND THEY TOLD ME NOW THE WAIT TIME IS DAYS SO FROM DAYS TO DAYS MY NEGATIVE BANK ACCOUNT, CHILDREN, RENT , BILLS, SINGLE MOM
I haven't received any products from Penn Foster nothing at allHaven't finished a class on their website and every time I tried to do a activity it would say you need a book and I never received anythingBut yet, I check my credit report and they have charged my credit $for nothing I am a hardworking mom of a year old and year old A Honor Roll studentI wished they would have sent me the things they were suppose to I would have gladly paid for their servicesBut, I do not think its fair for them to send something to a collection agency and I haven't received anythingI need some kind of answers
I called and cancelled my courses on Jan 3,2018, I told them to take my credit card information off their system so I wouldn’t be billed and was told it had to be in writing either mailed or emailSo I emailed them a letter stating I wanted to cancel my courseIn the email I told them why I was cancelling and to take the credit card off their system again so I wouldn’t be billed for time that I cancelledGot an email back with a reference number that it was being assigned to someone to handle itI get an email yesterday that it was cancelled but when I looked at my bank account they took the $payment outSo I called and was told they were going to refund it to me but it will take daysI asked how was it taken out when my credit card number was supposed to have been deleted from their system and was told it never wasI called again this morning demanding my money back and was to,d again days I have a bill coming out tomorrow on that money since I was under the assumpt
Pennfoster told me if I started a payment plan with there collecter I would be able to resume my classes but then the collector tells me that if I dont pay the full payment I can get back into my classess but that was not what was told to me by Pennfoster, So I believe I was tricked into making an agreement ro pay them with out getting what im paying for, because im only 60% into my classesI cant even look to see my classes into I pay in full to a collections agent and I dont even know if I pay if ill be able to go back to my classes
I just finished my associate's in health care management and my personal experience was a good oneEasy payment plan and you really can go at your own paceI would definitely recommend them
My daughter sign up for High School online a year agoShe already finish her program and the school at the beginning of the course explain to us that after the payment in full we will receive the High School Diploma in weeksI made the payment on August and hasn't receive anythingToday I call and they said that the payment has to be cleared (days) and in weeks I will receive her diplomaThe payment was withdrawal from my account instantlyThis was a miscommunication from them
They don't tell you everything you will need before you get startedThey list printed textbooks as an option, then tell you they have went digital after you payThey said I would get my printed textbooks when I reached a certain section but they are still digital
I enrolled for the child development program for $I was malling automatic payments from my accountThey took the payments but wasn't delivering my books on time and then closed me out of the classesI called and complained about this and was giving the run aroundUntil I was completely closed outI received a call from their collections saying that I owe over $for this same program and it is on my credit reportThey lie about the time you have, its not based on your time as they keep saying
I recently ran my credit report only to find out that my score had decreased significantly due to there being multiple collection accounts on my *** report, all referencing Penn FosterI'm in the process of purchasing a home and have since had to stop searching all together since I can't even obtain a pre-approval letter from how much my score dropped because of thisI reached out to Penn Foster inquiring on these accounts and what to do to get this correctedI was instructed to send in a copy of my drivers license and social security card so that they could investigate and remove these erroneous accountsThe representative stated that because of their erroneous nature they would be removed very quicklyHowever, due to these accounts not belonging to me I don't feel comfortable just sending out a copy of such delicate/confidential information to any random company and need to have this corrected as soon as possible without having to send in personal documentsIt really is no
I began attending Penn Foster in Novof 2015, as a tribute to my late Uncle Who passed away and all he wanted was for me to graduate high school and receive a diplomaHe left me a pretty good chunk of money, and let me tell you, This stupid school now has if not most at least a quarter of iti was paying a week on top of the or I put downbucks for retakes which I did at least timesthen you gotta pay more as graduation starts coming and let me tell you, my bill say I ONLY OWE more dollars?!?!?! it says I only paid bucks?!?!?! no where did all the rest of the money gobecause Ive spent close to with this school alonebut I still owe 300?! I asked for a refund back and they claim they cant under no exception give me a single dime to my name backWTF? this school claims my GPA is a oh waitwtf I had to immediately change school which I am soooo happy I didi may have started school alllll over again but it was so worth the GPA tha
I started a course in December and cancelled the course in early FebruaryMy employer paid for the tuition thru a contractor and payment was made in fullHowever when requesting the refund to my employer I was told many occasions that the payment was sent and my company never receivedHowever then speaking to someone in accounting that the refund payment was never sentIt has now been months past when the refund to my company was supposedly sent only to find out it never wasI’ve left multiple messages with their accounting team and never get a response or I told they the person who does the refunds isn’t thereSince this occurred I’ve had to drop out of a masters degree program because the refund was never made and my company will not allow additional tuition until this refund is received and this course is paid in fullI need this handled ASAP before I hire an attorney to handle this in an expedited manner
In either for PENN FOSTER to release my transcript and send it to another collegeI have to pay the full balance so I did pay them so I can transfer my credits to the College I'm planning to go toAfter months they sent me a bill saying I still owe them $for a remaining balanceI have all the documents and bank statement as my proof that I paid everything off
I was discharged from the military on June 1, due to back issues , I decided to do an online course with Penn Foster for Veterinary Assistant
I have completed all my required course work with the exception of the externship which I am unable to perform due to my back injury I have refused to make any payment until I either received my diploma and take my veterinary assistant certification exam or get full refund of the money I paid out Please Note I did state to them that I have sustained a back injury while I was deployed overseas After all this they sent my bill to a collection agancy ,which note was paid in fullI checked my credit report due to this reporting dropped my credit score and Penn foster refused to remove it from credit reporting by *** *** and ***
I signed up for an online grooming certification course on 04/13/I started the course that same day, after completing the first "study unit" the program offers (this unit just goes over basically HOW to use Penn Foster's online program, how to get help if needed, etc)After completing the first unit, I tried to start the secondThe second lesson will not load on my computer (which meets all necessary hardware requirements as listed by Penn Foster)On 04/13/I started trying to contact Penn Foster for assistance to get the program to workI have spent the last week trying to get tech support or a Student CARE supervisor to contact me back to resolve this issueEveryday since the 13th I have been told that I would be contacted the next day or with in hoursThe information I have gotten from various employees with Penn Foster has been VERY inconsistent, each person I talk to tells me a different storyThe only consistency has been, every one of the staff members has told m
I signed up for classes but cancelled within the allotted time and was refunded the fee to sign up then on June 16th Penn Foster debited my account I immediately called and was told I would have the returned to my account within business days It is now July and I have not received the refund I called the school and was on hold for over minutes only to be told I would have my refund in business days I spoke to Patricia who said that my refund was literally just processed an hour before I calledThis is unacceptable they need to return my payment I realize that is not a lot of money but it is the principal it has been over business days and now I'm told I have to wait an additional days Unacceptable.Thank you*** ***###-###-####
I was a student at Penn Foster since March of I paid $1,201.00, and I completed all the required assignments & testsHowever I have received nothing in returnNo degree! No communication! No Nothing! Where is my $1,201.00? Or where is my degree? I have been swindled before by a company called *** *** which was not accreditedThey swindled hundreds of dollars from meI feel Penn Foster is doing the sameI have tried to contact Penn Foster on several occasions recently to get an updateAfter I was on hold for nearly one hour I got a recording from Penn Foster that said "We are currently closed" and I got disconnectedThis is extremely scary how these so-called companies swindle money out of hard working people like myselfSomething has to be done before they keep doing this to other people$1,is a good chunk of change
I enrolled both of my daughters to the pharmacy tech program after speaking to a representative that sold us on the program only to find out most of what was promised was not what we receivedEmails were not returned for weeks therefore extending the program as far as they couldThe promised externship process was a nightmare that took to get toWe paid for liability insurance, background checks, physical exams and study materials all of which were hundreds of dollars we were never warned of above the cost of the program only to find out nine of those things were required in our state or of any useWe have also found out as we relocated out of state Penn fosters supposed accreditation is not recognized therefore to work in our state they will have to go to pharmacy tech training and pay for schooling all over againWe wasted mos and a lot of money and now aren't able to work in the fieldThis was the worst experience and both my girls are now left joblesss
I enrolled into what I was told was the Medical Administrative Assistant program at Penn FosterI spent an entire year doing all the course work, only to discover that I had been signed up for the wrong courseWhen I received my certificate I emailed them, and they stated that I had in fact been signed up for the wrong programI called and spoke to a representative who informed me that there was nothing monetarily that they could do, and I would have to pay the FULL COST to take the correct programThis is insaneThey enrolled me into the wrong program
I signed up for the standard high school diploma program, advertised on their website as ($1,- w/ credit card auto pay) In the pre-sioffer, I was guaranteed ($- in credits, after they had reviewed my faxed transcript) and then additionally I was offered a payment-match program - where they would match my down payment ($200) within business days
I paid $down, instead of the $down payment - for the payment-match programThey have mailed me two contracts to sign, that indicate my cost is $1,(instead of the $1,advertised on their website) - so I have refused to sign themIt has been business days and I have not received the (transcript credit of $150) or the payment-match credit of ($to match my initial down payment)
My transcripts were faxed on (04/18/2016) and a hard copy was mailed on 04/20/- verified by my previous school(*** *** *** School, Clanton Alabama ***) - ###-###-####
I am extremely confident in my
I was enticed to sign up for school by the low fee of for the first month promotionThe next day I logged in and it said tuition paid in fullI had next to nothing in my bank account under (400.00) and it over drew me and took my check deposited by my job that dayI called in to see about what penn foster could do and they said you can wait days and we will refund it I then went to my bank (chase) who said it is noting they can do because they gave me an allotted time for refundI THEN RETURNED TO MY JOB where I COULD CALL THEM AGAIN AND THEY TOLD ME NOW THE WAIT TIME IS DAYS SO FROM DAYS TO DAYS MY NEGATIVE BANK ACCOUNT, CHILDREN, RENT , BILLS, SINGLE MOM
I haven't received any products from Penn Foster nothing at allHaven't finished a class on their website and every time I tried to do a activity it would say you need a book and I never received anythingBut yet, I check my credit report and they have charged my credit $for nothing I am a hardworking mom of a year old and year old A Honor Roll studentI wished they would have sent me the things they were suppose to I would have gladly paid for their servicesBut, I do not think its fair for them to send something to a collection agency and I haven't received anythingI need some kind of answers
I called and cancelled my courses on Jan 3,2018, I told them to take my credit card information off their system so I wouldn’t be billed and was told it had to be in writing either mailed or emailSo I emailed them a letter stating I wanted to cancel my courseIn the email I told them why I was cancelling and to take the credit card off their system again so I wouldn’t be billed for time that I cancelledGot an email back with a reference number that it was being assigned to someone to handle itI get an email yesterday that it was cancelled but when I looked at my bank account they took the $payment outSo I called and was told they were going to refund it to me but it will take daysI asked how was it taken out when my credit card number was supposed to have been deleted from their system and was told it never wasI called again this morning demanding my money back and was to,d again days I have a bill coming out tomorrow on that money since I was under the assumpt
Pennfoster told me if I started a payment plan with there collecter I would be able to resume my classes but then the collector tells me that if I dont pay the full payment I can get back into my classess but that was not what was told to me by Pennfoster, So I believe I was tricked into making an agreement ro pay them with out getting what im paying for, because im only 60% into my classesI cant even look to see my classes into I pay in full to a collections agent and I dont even know if I pay if ill be able to go back to my classes
I just finished my associate's in health care management and my personal experience was a good oneEasy payment plan and you really can go at your own paceI would definitely recommend them
My daughter sign up for High School online a year agoShe already finish her program and the school at the beginning of the course explain to us that after the payment in full we will receive the High School Diploma in weeksI made the payment on August and hasn't receive anythingToday I call and they said that the payment has to be cleared (days) and in weeks I will receive her diplomaThe payment was withdrawal from my account instantlyThis was a miscommunication from them
I LOVE PENN FOSTER!
They don't tell you everything you will need before you get startedThey list printed textbooks as an option, then tell you they have went digital after you payThey said I would get my printed textbooks when I reached a certain section but they are still digital
I enrolled for the child development program for $I was malling automatic payments from my accountThey took the payments but wasn't delivering my books on time and then closed me out of the classesI called and complained about this and was giving the run aroundUntil I was completely closed outI received a call from their collections saying that I owe over $for this same program and it is on my credit reportThey lie about the time you have, its not based on your time as they keep saying