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Bridgepoint's Ashford Denied Accreditation; Stock Plummets
Does anybody know if Congressman Bilbray has supported the Bridgepoint Scam? I wrote him over a year ago expressing my serious concern about Bridgepoint being successful with our tax dollars propping up its profits. His office wrote back a pros and cons summation of what the proponents and critics say about the for profit higher education industry. The letter seemed to be carefully keeping its distance yet also trying to support the argument for a For Profti Business Model. Anybody?— July 17, 2012 11:33 a.m.
Bridgepoint: Bad for Students, Good for Gamblers?
Absolutely right!!! And many of the adisors at BPI when I was there were unemployed Mortgage Brokers who brought there slick habits from the old job to there new job! IMAGINE THAT!— May 6, 2011 10:07 p.m.
Bridgepoint: Bad for Students, Good for Gamblers?
Ok so in your capacity I am assuming you have no experience in dealing with the type of student applicant that BPI enrollment advisors are coaching into attending university classes. You ought to do it sometime and consider what is really going on with Tax Payer money. It would require you to leave your current Tax Payer funded postiion with our Navy Department but still you might understand some of our concerns better.— May 6, 2011 10:05 p.m.
Bridgepoint: Bad for Students, Good for Gamblers?
We the tax payer front the money for both but for those misguided students who sign up at BPI who really belong in CC as a more affordable option. They will owe much more and likely default for a much higher rate. I would respect your argument more if BPI was borrowing there own money and not using Tax payer dollars in this pissing contest. The Tea Party will attack this!— May 6, 2011 10 p.m.
Bridgepoint: Bad for Students, Good for Gamblers?
Bogeball tax payers are paying for this and the type of student who considers Bridgepoint in most cases can't get into a regular school. It is inline with the drop out rates that Harkin is calling BPI to the table on. The answer is Community College for them as a proving ground. If you are so certain that BPI's method has value do it on somebody elses dime, without Tax payer funded programs. I for one would love to see Clark make a go of that. He would never do it because he would go broke. He has the drop out rate to prove it. I am unwilling as a taxpayer to pay for this system you are saying is here to say. Welcome to the Tea party Movement!— May 6, 2011 9:49 p.m.
Bridgepoint: Bad for Students, Good for Gamblers?
Answer to the Bogeballs first question is Reputation. You are kidding yourself on the difference between the two universities. Answer to the data question. "Drop out rates!? Entrance standards to get into SDSU versus nothing except a HS diploma. Comment on third statement... you should concede that the type of student making an attempt at university work at Bridgepoint is better served at a community college as an affordable proving ground particularly on the tax payer dime. Go see your doctor because the Kool Aid you have drank is burping up into the faces of mindful tax payers concerned about what most should call legalized FRAUD!— May 6, 2011 9:43 p.m.
Bridgepoint: Bad for Students, Good for Gamblers?
Don Please post that again! Please! Tax payers are simply not aware of this huge scam.— May 6, 2011 9:30 p.m.
Bridgepoint: Bad for Students, Good for Gamblers?
This argument is by somebody who is unaware of the type of student typically being enrolled at Bridgepoint or by somebody who is kidding themselves. The statistics that Senator Harkin is putting out there seem in line to what I experienced as an enrollment advisor there for 6 months. Community College is a better place for Tax Payer dollars on students who barely got through High School. If an online version isn't available at CC's then this tax payer isn't interested in paying Clark for a losing program. Bogeball often times if you put in crap you get crap! Bridegpoints numbers prove that.— May 6, 2011 9:27 p.m.
Bridgepoint Most Shorted U.S. Stock
I too am puzzeled by the sentiment that Republicans would be for the for the for profit system of the Likes of BPI. They should be for the elimination of tax payer waste which with the drop out rate of BPI is easy to see. I would wonder if the TEA PARTY crowd is aware of this utter scam?— May 6, 2011 8:30 p.m.
Local Law Firm Looking into Bridgepoint
The fact that nobody from Bridepoint showed up to that hearing is very telling. Andrew Clark and gang are spineless and I would have had expected them to have the courage to defend there business. They are getting rich off of taxpayers enrolling the least able of our society to handle the challenge of University course work. In that single "no show" act i truely do not wish Andy well.— March 19, 2011 6:47 p.m.