Lai Nat
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Posted - 2010.02.02 23:02:00 -
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My experience with ITT Tech wasn't a very good one. I was just out of High School, and was looking into going in the computer field. So, of course, I looked into ITT Tech as an option. I requested an information packet from the school, and about two weeks later I got an email from them to set up an appointment to travel to the nearest ITT Tech to get information from an advisor. Normally I wouldn't have had a problem with this, but the nearest ITT was over 3 hours away. I had to take a day off work to travel up there, and they immediately proceeded to take me on a walk around the campus. Sweet. I asked some questions, they brought me back to the guidance office and showed me about 10-12 promo commercials, and started pushing papers in front of me. "Fill this out. Sign this. This will see if you can get a student loan, sign this, this is to blah blah blah.."
Long story short, they mislead me about what they were having me sign, and what I was looking at, trying their best not to give me time to read what was going in front of me. When they were finished, the advisor lady says "OK, we'll see you in three weeks for orientation."
I know.. I know.. I should have read the forms, but as an 18 y/o just out of high school kid, I was tired from a 3 1/2 hour drive (the longest I had ever driven at that point), and overwhelmed with what they were pushing at me. I got angry. "WTF is this? I requested information about your f**king college, and you have me take a day off work to drive over 3 hours to bum****ville nowhere, so you can push papers in my face and coerce a kid to enroll?"
So instead of just allowing me to tear up the papers and leave it at that, they KEPT the forms and told me they had to process them. On top of that, they said if I didn't want to attend, that I had to go home, write an email saying so, and why. So, I drove over 4 hours home (Go home traffic on the interstate, hooray!) to write a 5 page letter about how fantastically awesome they were, and how much I appreciated the fact that I had to drive all that way to learn that "I would like to request some information about your school" meant "I would like you to assail me with information, bore me with videos, and try to coerce me to join your corporate scam of a school."
So... bad press? Maybe they deserve it.
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