Iadt Online reviews and complaints
Possible Fraud
This school seems amazing at first. I was in love with this school when I found it. I couldn’t wait to get started. Then slowly their promises of "you'll never be alone" and " we care about our students" started to disappear. Truth is they don’t care, not about you. The only thing they care about is the money you bring them. The teachers don’t care they...
Read full complaint and 3 commentsPossible fraud!
I thought about going back to school, and was pretty excited about attending International Academy of Design and Technology. I applied online, and soon enough, I had a phone call. After exchanging my goals and past education, I was going to be 'reviewed' as to whether or not I was going to be accepted to the school. A day or two later, I got a confirmation call that I had in fact been accepted. So, I filled out my FAFSA and other information, and noticed soon after that I was owing about $637 every MONTH. Now, I was certain that it had been covered under FAFSA or student loans. That brings me to my current situation. I've tried contacting numerous people from Financial Aid, my Academic Advisor (who e-mailed my information to Financial Aid and gave me a phone number.) and the Registrars Office. These have been e-mails, phone calls, and even chats you can access on the website. Not a single person has yet to contact me after many phone calls.
To go a little more in depth, to show you how much they 'care', I started up a chat session with The Financial Aid team. I typed in my situation, hit enter and a "Please wait until a representative joins the chat." Waited, nothing. Waiting some more. Nothing. After about an hour of watching, "A representative has closed this chat session."
All they want is your money. They don't care otherwise. Do not go to this college!
Company Business Name: IADT Online
Country of complaint: United States
Address: Online, Florida
My daughter complete 4 years at that institution she has two loans and I have two parent plus loans. At the completion they did not place her on a job as they promised they would do at the end of graduation and their credits were not transferable as they promised they would. We still on the hook for those loans.
My son went to IADT - Sacramento and enrolled in the BIM program. 3 months before he was to finish his degree, the program was closed. I contacted the Borrower Defense and found out that this school does not qualify for loan discharge since not enough complaints have been reported. After reviewing his subsidized and unsubsidized loan from Nelnet and what was on my son's account activity, the amounts did not match. The student loan (Dept of Education) had a larger amount then what my son actually received. My son has no degree, no job and his repayment on his loan is due. If there is anyone who went to this school, check your loan. If you received fraud contact Borrow Defense at [protected] and make a complaint. The more complaints they have they will start an investigation.
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I know I was robbed. I have since enrolled in a new school and my financial aid works for me. At IADT all of my money went to them, no matter how much the loan was. I never received a dime of my money. They hogged every penny. I will look into suing their fraudulent, greedy behinds as well. I do have that worthless diploma, and none of the work I did there was accredited. My school now would not accept any credits from them. I asked the entrance program in the beginning if they were accredited; she lied.
Attention: If you know Anyone who went to one of these listed schools with worthless credits and degrees please read.
*IADT - International Academy of Design
* AIU - American InterContinental University
* Sanford Brown
* Le Cordon Bleu
* Briarcliff
* CTU - Colorado Technical University
We are filing a class action lawsuit with Morgan & Morgan. If you would like to join the suit Go to http://www.forthepeople.com/ and fill out information under contact to join. Put IADT in the header. Tell all former students you know. :)
I tried and nothing came up. Has it been dropped?
The research shows that IADT's CEO was embezzling money. He was living in New York at the time. That is why the school closed. The financial aid department is a joke. If you can not afford it, do not attend. With the amount of money you are paying you would think they would have you a job lined up after graduation. Wrong. It's high priced for no reason. They get you private loans so you can get more money to pay them and then don't want to give you anything to live off of. The housing department is a joke as well. You pay to stay in a normal apartment with run down furniture and 3 other people. For the price you pay you can stay alone. I'm not sorry, it was the worst mistake of my life. I now owe $73, 000 for 1 year at IADT. You tell me what's the problem with this picture? I wouldn't have minded paying that price if I was guaranteed a job. If I had know that, I would have went to regular community college. There are no perks for attending this school over a University or community college with design program. I had funny feeling about this school after reviewing the documents myself. Originally, my mother set this up and went over the paperwork. I was 18 years old and new to the college world. This has haunted me for 10 years now and will continue until I die. I can't afford to repay this. Good luck to the rest pf you. May God be with you in this situation.
I am former student, I went 58, 000 dollars in debt to this school. I could not afford to pay more to graduate. So they did kick me to the curve. I agree with all the people who have said that all they want is your status as a human for numbers and your money. They don't care, and if there is a class action against them, I plan on signing up against them. I'm truly not happy with them. I learned my work at my own teaching and practice, the teachers need to be more trained to teachhave rather than a social. IADTONLINEBOOKS@WORDSOFWISDOMBOOKS.COM Of Tampa Florida.
I have been a graduate of IDT Schaumburg since 2013 with my BA in Merchandising Management. With $80, 000 debt and no after college career advisory I have been stuck for 2 and 1/2 years working multiple part time positions just to pay off my bills. I have deferred my payments until I no longer can, and finally qualified for low income based repayments. I have slowly started teaching myself some career search techniques that I have learned online but I'm starting to freak out. I am a 26 year old college grad living at home with my mom and at this rate with no proper career training, maybe not even a real degree, and $80, 000 in debt I probably will live at home forever.
Looking to file class action because the school defrauded students and I have proof! Not only did I graduate with honors our BIM (Building Information Modeling) class was not even announced on stage at graduation! They grouped us together with the Interior Design graduates which we were not! I will be seeking a lawyer to file class action in near future. I believe the proof I have will stand up in a court of law.
I graduated IADT Schaumburg Illinois In spring of 2013. My last semester our school dean I believe came into our classroom to address the fact that they were reapplying for accreditation, and not to worry because he believed that we will receive it. WTF was that? I immediately tried transforming to the Art institute where they told me most of my credits wouldn't transfer over and if I were to join them I would loose a year and a half of class making me a softmore. After about 2 weeks of freaking out we got news from IADT that all was great and we were now accredit.
Its been a year and a half since I graduated with a "BA in Merchandising Management" and my career service lady is no where to be found. When I was still in school she was sending me BS retail jobs that I could get on my own w.o a bachelor degree. I told her I was looking for something different so she just stopped emailing me! Now I'm $80, 000 in debt from this BS school working part time at a modeling agency that I found on craigslist ( making $500 every 2 weeks at the age of 25). I have deferred my loans as much as I could and am freaking out because I have nooo idea how I'm going to repay them. With the break down I owe $730 a month to pay off my loans. Meaning I will have to live with my mom for the rest of my life with my current income just to pay off these loans.
The cherry on top of this story is when I went back on to the IADT site which is Stanford Brow now, all of the IADT alumni phone numbers and emails are disconnected! How am I supposed to find a job when I keep calling and emailing non existent numbers and emails? This is ridiculous. I'm currently trying to file a lawsuit against this joke of a school so if anyone can help me out before they come and repo my car and all my other assets that would be great. AleenaM1989@gmail.com
Do not apply to this school. I am a former teacher from ITT Technical Institute in Lake Mary. I have first hand experience working with Melinda Matheus. She is not to be trusted. When the director of your school tells you that we are all about profit and stresses that, there is a problem. In her short time with ITT Tech, she was investigated for sexual misconduct with an instructor. If you look at her LinkedIn profile she cannot keep a job longer than three years. Is this the type of Director/President you would want to attend a school a?. I mention this because she is the one setting policies at the school. Her judgment is everything when it comes to hiring, grading policies, etc. Move on and do not consider this school.