My Representative..

[MSTie1]

Okay so I probably got suckered in like everybody else here. Request a brochure from the web page, which I never got btw... and then *bam*! you're in an interview room with a representative. My guy was pretty cool, laid back, not all gung ho ITT. And as I signed up he just geared me towards the associates and at the time I was thinking "what? don't think I can handle the bachelors???" but now I'm thankful because there is no way I'm going to continue on and get a bachelors there. So thank you so very much Chris! Although I'm not looking for to the ordeal that it is to transfer credits out from ITT *sigh*, There's two types of "accredited" nationally and regionally, and they don't mesh. ITT being national of course, and everybody else being regional. Then I read that article about the quarter hrs/full hours. Even more depressing...

[Seven ALive]

The reps are basically salesman who have to meet quotas or they get fired. They all try to push you into an associates, i don't know why since a 4 year degree would get them more money. But about 40% of students drop out before the 2 year mark, which i am guessing if they are in the associates program the school will get to retain more of that money.

[SheepToTheFleecing]

I could be wrong but... All nationally accredited schools will accept credits from regionally accredited schools. The reverse is not true, not by a long shot. Regional accreditation is the gold standard so to speak.



My rep told me blatant untruths. Maybe he didn't know just how untrue his statements were at the time. I am pretty sure he knows now. Nothing about accreditation that I can remember but about the quality (and quantity) of education, the career services, and the knowledge and professional pride of the instructors.

He told me that if what I was taught went out of date I could return and take the class again for free. That is, in retrospect, laughable in more than two different ways.

The reps are like fake psychics. They read your facial expressions and nonverbal cues in order to tell you what you want to hear. Or maybe you tell them what you want to hear, like I probably did. Either way what you need is what they're selling.

[Seven ALive]

Well put, ya they are scamming people for the money. Some reps get fired or quit for standing up to the corporate bullshit, however that number is slim by far.

They make up lies to get you to commit, and then your screwed!

[MSTie1]

Yea I know that regional will go to national. I actually did that. I just didn't know until later on why that was. Course they were upfront at the time that ITT credits might not transfer anywhere, and at the time I was okay with that, I was thinking this place was gonna be hard, all technical courses and an "accelerated" syllabus. I always feel like screaming to the people that walk down the halls with a rep to save themselves and don't sign up. You guys rep treat you like an old friend when they see you in the halls too?

[Seven ALive]

I used too, my rep remembered my name and all of that, he was a nice guy. I transferred to Tempe from Vegas. (Hey, new profile option to state your campus! Look for it in the UCP, lol ITT Tech Networking!!!).

When i got to tempe, i had a bunch of issues. First i was in the middle of my "Packaging" for F.A. so i had to handle that (and it took 4ever). Then they gave me a rep because the dumb asses thought i was a new student. The rep i had was a very annoying person. Kept calling me up and making sure i did this and that. I kept telling her I am not a new student. She also wanted me to see her everytime i went to the campus. I was really annoyed, i don't think i would of liked that even if i was new. She treated me like it was my first day in kindergarten. I kept blowing her off and she got the picture.

I feel exactly the same way, i see someone in the hall getting a tour from a rep and i want to say to them, get the hell out of here now! You cannot warn them because the rep is stuck to their ass feeding them lies. So one day it was orientation. I had strips of paper that said "Don't go to ITT Tech, it is a scam, go to It Takes time.org for information".

How i approached them was "epic" but they got weirded out. I just approached one, and said hey take this read it and go there and i walked away. One asshole just threw it away and looked at me funny, so i said this.
"Ok fine, i want you to remember this day, the day someone approached you to help you save yourself the biggest mistake of your life, and instead of listening to him, you threw your life away. I want to remember my face, so you can look back in a year, and 10 years and tell yourself, that was the guy who tried to save my life, but i didn't listen. " lol i seriously said that (or very close to it).

Anyway, ill be sending a global P.M. telling users how to spread the word of this site on campus and provide flyers!
I was even thinking of buying custom pens and handing them out during class lol.

[Hatuey10]

The reps are basically salesman indeed.In addition, the campus where i went to at least 90% of the time seems like there reading off from a script or cue cards.They talk like robots i was thinking at first, but in no time,you would know that ITT corporation is making the reps to sell their so-called "honesty" speech to up coming students to sign the dotted line.

They dont care about us (the students) at all!!!

[Spectre]

I have been reading posts from this site for a while and wish i would have heard about it before I attended Shittech. By the time I found out about this site I was already trapped.

My rep was downright horrible. He told so many lies it was unreal. He told me I would have classes every monday, wednesday, and friday morning. After receiving my schedule I soon to find out all you get is all evening classes or saturday morning classes. While giving my tour I remember he would say hello to people walking down the hall and go on this rant about how everybody knows everybody and how its one big family and how the school is for me since its hands on.

One thing that always cracked me up was how towards the end of my pathetic degree at ITT he was so proud how he was the only rep still around after two years. He would go on how he cares for the people that he brings in to the school and makes sure they attend their classes. He walks around the school with his chest out like he is the man of the school. It just disgusted my buddy and I. We would sit there and just make fun of him all the time.

I also feel the same way, I just wanna go up to someone and tell them to run when they are with a rep. I especially wanna go up to the people that are on their tour with the rep I had and tell them I had this rep and whatever he says is a lie. I just know that I wish someone would have done that for me.

[hyperninja3]

The reps are basically salesman who have to meet quotas or they get fired. They all try to push you into an associates, i don't know why since a 4 year degree would get them more money. But about 40% of students drop out before the 2 year mark, which i am guessing if they are in the associates program the school will get to retain more of that money.

Exactly my rep was like that but with attitude. What a jerk. I just got up and said, "forget it!" and i am going to Monroe communtiy college this fall! God, then he called me back all pissed and asked, "Why the heck you walked on us." I just told him to not call me again or there will be a lawsuit. Damnit, i was uncomfortble in a pressuring to go here college interview.

[aka name]

i am going to Monroe community college this fall!

Be sure to warn your friends at Monroe College about ITT Tech!

[hyperninja3]

Oh i will aka name, i also have freinds at the high school i went to and i warn them as well!