Kaplan University - Human Services

Excited about Kaplan

By: Anonymous (In Progress) on November 1, 2009

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Did you know that advisors at Kaplan have to go thru a 33 page script to get you enrolled? They make you talk about your goals, and dreams and their job is to sell you a dream. They make you think of the outcome, but they leave out the debt that you will have. 
Did you know that as long as you approve your funding, which is very deceiving, you are "recommended"? There is no criteria to get into Kaplan, except to have a HS or GED diploma. They say its not an open enrollment school, but they enroll anyone that has the "tuition deposit", which is just $70 right now. If you have prior college, you are in! If you don't, then you take a "common sense"  quiz. If you fail it, you can take it again. So much for having quality students. 

Admissions reps have to enroll anywhere from 3-8 students per month. It doesn't sound like a lot, but when you have 2500 reps fighting for the same business, you are talking a lot of students. And they have 14 different enrollment dates per year. 

This is definitely a GREAT for profit university- Great for the people that run it. At $63,000 for a Bachelor's degree:
If we just use the lower goal of 3 enrollments per term, for each enrolled student that graduates Kaplan makes per term $472,500,000. Multiply that by 14 terms in a year...

You should go to the parking lot at their Fort Lauderdale location...BMW's, Mercedes, Porches..you name it. And the advisors walk around with Gucci purses, belts etc. And all this money comes from the government! and you get to pay it back. How do you like that now?