ITT Technical Institute, Sylmar Campus, Computer and Electronics Engineering Technology (AAS), 15-MAR-04 / 05-MAR-06, Electronics and Communications Engineering Technology (BS) 13-MAR-06 / 02-DEC-07
Department of Education,
This letter will describe my experiences at ITT and why I believe I was misled by the school and the victim of fraudulence. As a result of these experiences and the facts that have come to light regarding ITT (enclosed in the Appendix), I am seeking full reimbursement of my tuition at ITT.
I was enrolled in ITT Technical Institute from 2004 to December 2007 in Sylmar, CA. My hope was to learn new skills and broaden my employment opportunities. Unfortunately, I was grossly misled about what ITT could do for me. The "tour" was where it all began: my recruiter asked me what my ideal school would be -- I was candid and replied that I thought I might start at a community college and transfer later to a larger school like MIT. He immediately warned me against going to community college by saying that most of them are only regionally accredited. He then compared this accreditation to ITT's national ACICS accreditation. He told me that national is better than regional accreditation because you can take it anywhere. I took his word for it -- but I would later come to find out that this is simply not true: a lot of non-profit, state-owned, degree-oriented schools are regionally accredited -- whereas, many for-profit schools are nationally accredited (and it is these latter type of schools that face less strict regulations). My recruiter was trying to convince me that by being nationally accredited, ITT was superior to regionally accredited schools. He even went so far as to say that if I wanted to work with computers, ITT would probably be even better for me than MIT.
He explained this by saying that "98% of ITT grads are placed in jobs in their field of study" and that starting salaries for these positions were between "$80,000 and $100,000" a year. He assured me that ITT worked with big name companies like IBM, Schumberger. He told me that Schumberger hires primarily from ITT's pool of graduates and that I would easily be able to get a $120,000 to $150,000 salary...
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