Comments on: Kaplan University ads http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2009/01/kaplan-university-ads.html Technology, leadership, and the future of schools Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:42:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Vanessa http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2009/01/kaplan-university-ads.html/comment-page-1#comment-80949 Vanessa Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:56:05 +0000 http://annahein.com/2009/01/kaplan-university-ads.html#comment-80949 Before my last term at Kaplan University I contacted Kaplan about my financial aid situation. I asked them for a loan. The man stated that I could get a Kaplan loan if I applied for a loan and gave them to denials from a loan institution. I did all the things I was supposed to do. After turning in the loan information I waited. No one ever contacted me and i weighed in my concerns. I was then contacted by an Ombudsman. I told her that I would need a loan for my last term since I was only taking 3 credits. She stated to me that I did not need a loan. She said to correct one of my sheets of paper and to turn in a educational expense aplcation. I told her that if I could not get a loan I could not finish school. I had to wait till I got a job so I could pay for the last term payment of $1300. I explained to her more than once the amount of credit hours I was going to have. She had my information right there and knew I only had one class to take. She also had my inforamtion about how many credit hours I had left to complete school. I filled out the paper work that she told me to. She stated that I was APPROAVED for $1994 for my first term in the year and an additional $1995 for the last term. I asked her how this was possible and she said it is because I changed the paper and accounds for funding were now based on yearly instead of by term. Ok, so got all the paper work and the money started coming. I recieved x amount of dollars. Then go to find out that I did not get approved for any of the money. I went from a balance of $0 to $2800 because your institution sent back money I was supposably approaved for. How is it that an employee of your could lie and sceam so much? Could it be possible this is how your company tells them to do it when a students says they need a loan or want to take a leave because they cant pay for the last term. I want my degree and the money taken off. If someone makes a mistake then it is their responsibility to fix it. I did not want any money i could not pay and I made this clear. Your ombudsman said It was mine and everything was approved even after the fact I only had 3 credit hours left. I left my trust in you so knowldgable staff. I have tried to get this fixed and all I get is "I am working on it." After three years with this school I passed my academics I did my part. Now I want the degree I worked so hard for and I want my account cleared. Why shoul me and my family suffer for a mistake on you employees part? Before my last term at Kaplan University I contacted Kaplan about my financial aid situation. I asked them for a loan. The man stated that I could get a Kaplan loan if I applied for a loan and gave them to denials from a loan institution. I did all the things I was supposed to do. After turning in the loan information I waited. No one ever contacted me and i weighed in my concerns. I was then contacted by an Ombudsman. I told her that I would need a loan for my last term since I was only taking 3 credits. She stated to me that I did not need a loan. She said to correct one of my sheets of paper and to turn in a educational expense aplcation. I told her that if I could not get a loan I could not finish school. I had to wait till I got a job so I could pay for the last term payment of $1300. I explained to her more than once the amount of credit hours I was going to have. She had my information right there and knew I only had one class to take. She also had my inforamtion about how many credit hours I had left to complete school. I filled out the paper work that she told me to. She stated that I was APPROAVED for $1994 for my first term in the year and an additional $1995 for the last term. I asked her how this was possible and she said it is because I changed the paper and accounds for funding were now based on yearly instead of by term. Ok, so got all the paper work and the money started coming. I recieved x amount of dollars. Then go to find out that I did not get approved for any of the money. I went from a balance of $0 to $2800 because your institution sent back money I was supposably approaved for. How is it that an employee of your could lie and sceam so much? Could it be possible this is how your company tells them to do it when a students says they need a loan or want to take a leave because they cant pay for the last term. I want my degree and the money taken off. If someone makes a mistake then it is their responsibility to fix it. I did not want any money i could not pay and I made this clear. Your ombudsman said It was mine and everything was approved even after the fact I only had 3 credit hours left. I left my trust in you so knowldgable staff. I have tried to get this fixed and all I get is “I am working on it.” After three years with this school I passed my academics I did my part. Now I want the degree I worked so hard for and I want my account cleared. Why shoul me and my family suffer for a mistake on you employees part?

]]> By: Dell http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2009/01/kaplan-university-ads.html/comment-page-1#comment-72927 Dell Wed, 16 Nov 2011 06:21:44 +0000 http://annahein.com/2009/01/kaplan-university-ads.html#comment-72927 Just another quick point...This MPH is not very cheap either; when converted to our currency, it would be over 2million dollars! I was told, however, about a "buddy" system which would afford me to do the programme with others at a reduced cost (50%). Now of course, that's music to my ears, and pocket!!! But are these claims true? How am I protected? Please, please advise. I would love to take this route as it is far more convenient! I already know they're accredited...I just don't want to resort (one day) to any legal wrangling!! Just another quick point…This MPH is not very cheap either; when converted to our currency, it would be over 2million dollars! I was told, however, about a “buddy” system which would afford me to do the programme with others at a reduced cost (50%). Now of course, that’s music to my ears, and pocket!!! But are these claims true? How am I protected? Please, please advise. I would love to take this route as it is far more convenient! I already know they’re accredited…I just don’t want to resort (one day) to any legal wrangling!!

]]> By: Dell http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2009/01/kaplan-university-ads.html/comment-page-1#comment-72924 Dell Wed, 16 Nov 2011 06:13:27 +0000 http://annahein.com/2009/01/kaplan-university-ads.html#comment-72924 Wow! Really appreciative of the comments I've read. I am Jamaican and I recently learnt of Kaplan. I am considering to pursue a Master of Public Health with them. Do you think it is a wise investment? Please advise. I would also like to hear more stories of success though. Thanks in advance. Wow! Really appreciative of the comments I’ve read. I am Jamaican and I recently learnt of Kaplan. I am considering to pursue a Master of Public Health with them. Do you think it is a wise investment? Please advise. I would also like to hear more stories of success though. Thanks in advance.

]]> By: Brandi http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2009/01/kaplan-university-ads.html/comment-page-1#comment-20714 Brandi Sat, 24 Jul 2010 10:14:52 +0000 http://annahein.com/2009/01/kaplan-university-ads.html#comment-20714 Th only thing you have to do is the work to keep a 4.0 at Kaplan, and considering that every sinle class I've taken so far, (I'm in my 4th term, so 8 classes) as been uter nonsense. They are geared toward people who, for lack of a better word, stupid. I personally did NOT go to highschool, but I did attend my local community college for a while. Lack of transporation led me to online education. In theory, the way Kaplan delivers their education might actually work, but when the discussion boards are consistantly filled with posts that lack anything close to proper grammar, punctuation, or anything resembling independent thought, the whole thing becomes a waste. I have not learned anything that I hadn't already, either in middle school, or at the community college. For example- both College composition I & II, there is only ONE essay written the entire 9-wk term. When I took this class at the other school, we had 5-6 full essays, each of a different type(informative, persuasive, etc). Kaplan charges over $3,000 to learn how to write an informative essay! And even that is just substandard, as not a single student in my class exhibited college level writing. I am disgusted, and agree with a previous poster about a class action. How, if the quality is so LOW, can a degree frm them have ANY value post-graduation, let alone cost upwards of $30,000 for an associate's degree? (BTW, when I enrolled, I had been unemployed for nearly 10 years, am on SSI, permanently, yet have been rather forcefully encouraged to take on MASSIVE debt, go figure) Brandi Th only thing you have to do is the work to keep a 4.0 at Kaplan, and considering that every sinle class I’ve taken so far, (I’m in my 4th term, so 8 classes) as been uter nonsense. They are geared toward people who, for lack of a better word, stupid. I personally did NOT go to highschool, but I did attend my local community college for a while. Lack of transporation led me to online education. In theory, the way Kaplan delivers their education might actually work, but when the discussion boards are consistantly filled with posts that lack anything close to proper grammar, punctuation, or anything resembling independent thought, the whole thing becomes a waste. I have not learned anything that I hadn’t already, either in middle school, or at the community college. For example- both College composition I & II, there is only ONE essay written the entire 9-wk term. When I took this class at the other school, we had 5-6 full essays, each of a different type(informative, persuasive, etc). Kaplan charges over $3,000 to learn how to write an informative essay! And even that is just substandard, as not a single student in my class exhibited college level writing. I am disgusted, and agree with a previous poster about a class action. How, if the quality is so LOW, can a degree frm them have ANY value post-graduation, let alone cost upwards of $30,000 for an associate’s degree? (BTW, when I enrolled, I had been unemployed for nearly 10 years, am on SSI, permanently, yet have been rather forcefully encouraged to take on MASSIVE debt, go figure)
Brandi

]]> By: Brandi http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2009/01/kaplan-university-ads.html/comment-page-1#comment-20713 Brandi Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:55:57 +0000 http://annahein.com/2009/01/kaplan-university-ads.html#comment-20713 This commercial is a perfect example of the misleading tactics Kaplan uses. They do NOT have video lectures, as of 7/24/10, they have not even integrated audio for all professors in their seminars. I am a student there,unfortunately, and I asked them about why they advertise false information- I was told that it is Kaplan's "vision" to integrate these things in the future, but do NOT have them as of yet. They spend huge amounts of money on both advertising, and "sponsoring" search results so that it is practically impossibe to actually find reliable information online. When I was rearching schools, I found that even the so-called "unbiased, real student reviews" were doctored. The same overwhelmingly negative reviews, were word for word repeated on multiple different schools' review boards all with tsimilar replies, advising readers to "just look at the spelling and grammar of the negative posts and you have to question them. It takes a lot of work to do distance learning, and these people obviously don't put in the effort" And this is repeated in the reviews of ALL schools, a little too "coincidental" if you ask me. I am getting out of Kaplan as soon as I can, it is the worst value in terms of actual learning to cost. Brandi This commercial is a perfect example of the misleading tactics Kaplan uses. They do NOT have video lectures, as of 7/24/10, they have not even integrated audio for all professors in their seminars. I am a student there,unfortunately, and I asked them about why they advertise false information- I was told that it is Kaplan’s “vision” to integrate these things in the future, but do NOT have them as of yet.

They spend huge amounts of money on both advertising, and “sponsoring” search results so that it is practically impossibe to actually find reliable information online. When I was rearching schools, I found that even the so-called “unbiased, real student reviews” were doctored. The same overwhelmingly negative reviews, were word for word repeated on multiple different schools’ review boards all with tsimilar replies, advising readers to “just look at the spelling and grammar of the negative posts and you have to question them. It takes a lot of work to do distance learning, and these people obviously don’t put in the effort”

And this is repeated in the reviews of ALL schools, a little too “coincidental” if you ask me. I am getting out of Kaplan as soon as I can, it is the worst value in terms of actual learning to cost.
Brandi

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]]> By: Doug Johnson http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2009/01/kaplan-university-ads.html/comment-page-1#comment-11368 Doug Johnson Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000 http://annahein.com/2009/01/kaplan-university-ads.html#comment-11368 These point out that all traditional educational institutions Pre-K - PHD will need to acknowledge they are less and less monopolistic. Do we stay "traditional" and accept that many students can and will go elsewhere? Or do we try to become more things to more people? Nice to see an increasing number of choices for learners today! Doug These point out that all traditional educational institutions Pre-K – PHD will need to acknowledge they are less and less monopolistic.

Do we stay “traditional” and accept that many students can and will go elsewhere? Or do we try to become more things to more people?

Nice to see an increasing number of choices for learners today!

Doug

]]> By: David http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2009/01/kaplan-university-ads.html/comment-page-1#comment-11369 David Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000 http://annahein.com/2009/01/kaplan-university-ads.html#comment-11369 I LOVE the 1st one. I believe that schools need to incorporate more "Technology" into the teachings... NOW IS THE TIME to switch from traditional to more advanced/ Technology learnings b/c Technology is what is going to happen in the future. I LOVE the 1st one. I believe that schools need to incorporate more “Technology” into the teachings… NOW IS THE TIME to switch from traditional to more advanced/ Technology learnings b/c Technology is what is going to happen in the future.

]]> By: SStewart http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2009/01/kaplan-university-ads.html/comment-page-1#comment-11370 SStewart Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000 http://annahein.com/2009/01/kaplan-university-ads.html#comment-11370 The fact that this is part of the for-profit Kaplan test-prep company biases me against them. A quote from the fine print on their website: "About Kaplan Higher Education and Kaplan, Inc. Kaplan Inc.’s higher education division, including Kaplan University and Concord Law School, is comprised of 68 campus-based locations in 16 states. Kaplan Higher Education offers master, bachelor and associate degrees, as well as certificates designed to provide students with the skills necessary to qualify them for employment in the fields of business, criminal justice, education, fashion and design, healthcare, information technology, legal and paralegal studies. Kaplan, Inc., which has been helping people achieve their goals for 66 years, provides educational and career services to students, schools, professionals, and businesses worldwide. Kaplan is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO). For more information about Kaplan, Inc., please visit www.kaplan.com." The fact that this is part of the for-profit Kaplan test-prep company biases me against them.

A quote from the fine print on their website:

“About Kaplan Higher Education and Kaplan, Inc.
Kaplan Inc.’s higher education division, including Kaplan University and Concord Law School, is comprised of 68 campus-based locations in 16 states. Kaplan Higher Education offers master, bachelor and associate degrees, as well as certificates designed to provide students with the skills necessary to qualify them for employment in the fields of business, criminal justice, education, fashion and design, healthcare, information technology, legal and paralegal studies. Kaplan, Inc., which has been helping people achieve their goals for 66 years, provides educational and career services to students, schools, professionals, and businesses worldwide. Kaplan is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO). For more information about Kaplan, Inc., please visit http://www.kaplan.com.”

]]> By: Karen http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2009/01/kaplan-university-ads.html/comment-page-1#comment-11371 Karen Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000 http://annahein.com/2009/01/kaplan-university-ads.html#comment-11371 I would have to say that the ffirst one is really good, the second one is a little too much but still good. What do I know, I have no idea where to go to college, these adds are very good, it gets the messege by but it does not take a while to figure it out. I really liked them :) Karen :) I would have to say that the ffirst one is really good, the second one is a little too much but still good.
What do I know, I have no idea where to go to college, these adds are very good, it gets the messege by but it does not take a while to figure it out.

I really liked them

:) Karen :)

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