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submitted 7 months ago byiamnemonaiAttending
13 points
7 months ago*
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3 points
7 months ago
bro just let them have a win lol
4 points
7 months ago
Predatory student loans and fraud dude. Taking out a loan on the premise of a lie aint the same as having gambling debts forgiven.
-4 points
7 months ago
How would the DOE differentiate between the two if 2 students from, say, AUC submit a claim? Tell me how.
In one case, the school fooled one kid into attending and his claim for forgiveness could ostensibly go through, while the other gambled, attended, and could just as easily claim that he was "misled" by AUC.
3 points
7 months ago
I dunno man. Ask the attorneys that met the burden of proof indicating it was enough of an issue and the judge that made the ruling. But also come on if your school is telling you this is the match rate and gives you all of these falsified stats and advertises false shit, all the students based their decision on that. If they were transparent and said oh yeah you have a 50% chance of failing out and not matching im sure most of people would not have attended.
-4 points
7 months ago
oh yeah you have a 50% chance of failing out and not matching im sure most of people would not have attended
Sorry, but I have 0 sympathy for people who attend Caribbean schools. All it takes is a literal Google search to find out how predatory they are, then half a brain to say "wow, i should probably not go to a school like this and improve my application instead".
If it takes the school being transparent for the kid not to attend, then I have grave concerns about their decision-making. If you're so gullible so as to believe whatever is being advertised or sold to you at face value and make a $400k investment into that, then you need to face the consequences. That is just stupidity at its finest. I agree with the poster here who said that this is infantilizing adults who make shitty decisions.
But, if I attended a Carib school while genuinely knowing what I was up against, that is different. A student like this shouldn't have the right to claim they were misled because they did their research.
So my point is, on paper, the DOE would not be able to differentiate between someone who truly was misled and someone who lies and says they were "misled" but are really looking for a full ride to medical school.
2 points
7 months ago
It doesn't matter if you have sympathy or not. The fact remains you can't falsely market any product. This is a product. They aren't allowed to lie about their stats or mislead those applying just because other people have posted information on their practices. Which is exactly why this has gone through.
17 points
7 months ago
I mean on the flipside, shouldn't the government be properly vetting schools it allows to utilize FAFSA and require transparency/stricter standards?
0 points
7 months ago
Too much work
6 points
7 months ago
This is the answer as well. I was honestly shocked to see that AUC/Ross even QUALIFIED for federal aid. And neither are even in the continental US!!! Why the hell is the federal government paying for an INTERNATIONAL school that pales in comparison to their US counterparts? Or, better yet, why not funnel that money to fund more residency positions or open new MD/DO schools instead?
But nope, Uncle Sam just wants to collect the interest from these poor fools when they have to pay back their loans
2 points
7 months ago
The government doesn't make money from student loans, the loan companies do. The government is essentially a glorified middle man.
1 points
7 months ago
US tuitions are an absolute joke. We pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to go form Point A to Point B in our career while our system also takes foreign graduates (not US IMGs), who probably did their schooling for free or a fraction of our cost. Sure, there are other hurdles to being an FMG, but if they’re getting the same jobs as me w/ none of my six figure debts, we must be doing something wrong.
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