I just learned about Rue edu lend filing for bankruptcy! This company charged me 8,000 dollars for an education i did not recieve and now It is on my credit report and preventing me from buying a house. I am lookin for infomation from there attourneys so that I can submit this to my credit beaureas for removal.
Rue education is pretty much a scam. They reel you in with all the comfort of no obligations. They tell you that you can stop at anytime and just lose the money that you have already spent to that point(after first class). They even went as far as to tell me that you can try out the first class to see if you like it and if you dont you can cancel. Well when I decided to cancel after the first class because the class was not what I expected. They told me that I could not back out and i will have to pay the remainder of the 3800.00 contract.
This was all news to me given the fact the guy told me that i could see if i liked the first class and felt comfortable with it. Well i finished my class in May and just decided after much thought not to finsih due to the lack of professional help and thought that all the false promises added up to not a good program. The first class was 675.00 and I have paid 875.00 plus a 150.00 registration fee(they take it out monthly through a CC).
When i called i explain my situation and the lady told me that she could stop payment but could not refund the 200.00 that i thought i would get back. I ask to talk to a manager. When the guy called me back he was not helpful and told me that i signed a contract and there is nothing i can do. Thats it!!! Did not want to hear my side at all. well he can take his remainder of his money and his false promises and stick it. This business says one thing, then another, and now this!!! Its a joke and people really need to know how this company works
Do not believe in this program.....definitely the biggest ripoff in existence. go through nursing school to become a LPN and there's always someone telling you to go back to school to make more money as a RN. if you have kids, this seems like a good idea.
RUE education contacted me after i graduated( that's right, they approached me) with the promise that I could get my RN in no time using their program. On the telephone they informed me that if I couldn't complete the program, the remaining funds would be returned.(lie # 1) They also stated they had a counselor that would contact me to help me through the program. Someone did call 1 time, but not to help, only to inform me that they were my counselor.(lie # 2) I received their first set of materials with the first bill and my first contract.( beware, beware. lie # 3.) three months later the course requirements changed and my contract would have to be updated to accommodate the new requirements. (more money, more time on the payment schedule.)
At six months, one of my children was having health problems which put us in a financial pinch. I informed them that with the time spent in hospital and challenge of trying to maintain full time job with taking care of kids would make it difficult to even focus on schooling. I told them that I would need to drop out. I said I would reapply after my son was better. (Here it comes) I was informed that I can't drop out of the program. Not only that, if I don't make payments, it will go to collections. ( By the way, RUE is not a school. they cannot guarantee anything. the money you pay is for study materials, not tuition) they claim that you have to enroll in excelsior college. I only hope excelsior college would publicly post a warning about RUE.
If nothing else, i want to warn any LPN that receives a letter from RUE education after becoming licensed, don't waste your money. I learned a expensive lesson that I wouldn't want any other nurse to have to learn. If you want to further your education, only deal with legitimate schools, not the illegitimate study programs designed to rip you off. due to the financial obligation to RUE, I have to put off schooling for at least another year....If it sounds too good to be true, read the fine print.
I have this problem with rue educational publishers.
I signed up for their at home study materials program back in May 2003 to become an RN. I talked to their representative on the phone and they faxed me the contract. I signed it not reading the fine print which said once you enrolled you couldn't drop out.
I found out that their program cost nearly $5000.00 plus. I received one book, a test book and other materials in the first package. However doing the course of a few months I had a worsening illness that caused me to endure large numbers of costly testing thus ending with surgery.
After the surgery I knew that I wasn't going to be able to continue with the program and I wrote and asked Rue to consider letting me out of the contract due to my illness and financial difficulty but they refused.
They told me the only way I could get out of their program was to have a doctor or lawyer write a hardship letter certified and notarized and this was done by a lawyer friend of mine at no cost to me.
However Rue refused saying, "because MS Blanch does not have a medical condition that causes her a permanent inability to work as a nurse or study independently we feel that she is obligated to the terms of the contract."
They have turned me over to a collection agency for the remaining $3800 plus dollars and I won't be receiving any of the remaining materials while this account is in collections. Not that I want the remaining materials but it seems like a ripoff to enroll in a study material program that you can't afford because of illness and just plain loss of interest due to the stressors of trying to keep a roof over your head and trying to keep food on the table and pay your medical bills as well as still being under the doctor's care.
This is truly a company whose only interest is their own and the all mighty dollar!
Rue Education Reviews
I just learned about Rue edu lend filing for bankruptcy! This company charged me 8,000 dollars for an education i did not recieve and now It is on my credit report and preventing me from buying a house. I am lookin for infomation from there attourneys so that I can submit this to my credit beaureas for removal.
Rue education is pretty much a scam. They reel you in with all the comfort of no obligations. They tell you that you can stop at anytime and just lose the money that you have already spent to that point(after first class). They even went as far as to tell me that you can try out the first class to see if you like it and if you dont you can cancel. Well when I decided to cancel after the first class because the class was not what I expected. They told me that I could not back out and i will have to pay the remainder of the 3800.00 contract.
This was all news to me given the fact the guy told me that i could see if i liked the first class and felt comfortable with it. Well i finished my class in May and just decided after much thought not to finsih due to the lack of professional help and thought that all the false promises added up to not a good program. The first class was 675.00 and I have paid 875.00 plus a 150.00 registration fee(they take it out monthly through a CC).
When i called i explain my situation and the lady told me that she could stop payment but could not refund the 200.00 that i thought i would get back. I ask to talk to a manager. When the guy called me back he was not helpful and told me that i signed a contract and there is nothing i can do. Thats it!!! Did not want to hear my side at all. well he can take his remainder of his money and his false promises and stick it. This business says one thing, then another, and now this!!! Its a joke and people really need to know how this company works
Do not believe in this program.....definitely the biggest ripoff in existence. go through nursing school to become a LPN and there's always someone telling you to go back to school to make more money as a RN. if you have kids, this seems like a good idea.
RUE education contacted me after i graduated( that's right, they approached me) with the promise that I could get my RN in no time using their program. On the telephone they informed me that if I couldn't complete the program, the remaining funds would be returned.(lie # 1) They also stated they had a counselor that would contact me to help me through the program. Someone did call 1 time, but not to help, only to inform me that they were my counselor.(lie # 2) I received their first set of materials with the first bill and my first contract.( beware, beware. lie # 3.) three months later the course requirements changed and my contract would have to be updated to accommodate the new requirements. (more money, more time on the payment schedule.)
At six months, one of my children was having health problems which put us in a financial pinch. I informed them that with the time spent in hospital and challenge of trying to maintain full time job with taking care of kids would make it difficult to even focus on schooling. I told them that I would need to drop out. I said I would reapply after my son was better. (Here it comes) I was informed that I can't drop out of the program. Not only that, if I don't make payments, it will go to collections. ( By the way, RUE is not a school. they cannot guarantee anything. the money you pay is for study materials, not tuition) they claim that you have to enroll in excelsior college. I only hope excelsior college would publicly post a warning about RUE.
If nothing else, i want to warn any LPN that receives a letter from RUE education after becoming licensed, don't waste your money. I learned a expensive lesson that I wouldn't want any other nurse to have to learn. If you want to further your education, only deal with legitimate schools, not the illegitimate study programs designed to rip you off. due to the financial obligation to RUE, I have to put off schooling for at least another year....If it sounds too good to be true, read the fine print.
I have this problem with rue educational publishers.
I signed up for their at home study materials program back in May 2003 to become an RN. I talked to their representative on the phone and they faxed me the contract. I signed it not reading the fine print which said once you enrolled you couldn't drop out.
I found out that their program cost nearly $5000.00 plus. I received one book, a test book and other materials in the first package. However doing the course of a few months I had a worsening illness that caused me to endure large numbers of costly testing thus ending with surgery.
After the surgery I knew that I wasn't going to be able to continue with the program and I wrote and asked Rue to consider letting me out of the contract due to my illness and financial difficulty but they refused.
They told me the only way I could get out of their program was to have a doctor or lawyer write a hardship letter certified and notarized and this was done by a lawyer friend of mine at no cost to me.
However Rue refused saying, "because MS Blanch does not have a medical condition that causes her a permanent inability to work as a nurse or study independently we feel that she is obligated to the terms of the contract."
They have turned me over to a collection agency for the remaining $3800 plus dollars and I won't be receiving any of the remaining materials while this account is in collections. Not that I want the remaining materials but it seems like a ripoff to enroll in a study material program that you can't afford because of illness and just plain loss of interest due to the stressors of trying to keep a roof over your head and trying to keep food on the table and pay your medical bills as well as still being under the doctor's care.
This is truly a company whose only interest is their own and the all mighty dollar!
Florine CrystalSprings, Mississippi