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Deceptive Tactics? - vrilpr - 04-06-2025
Has anyone else thy they use deceptive tactics to force you to pay for specific fees?
RE: Deceptive Tactics? - TINASAM - 04-06-2025
LOL no. Application fee and one fee at the end of your course. Most students get tuition scholarships. UoPeople is not doing deceptive fee tactics.
RE: Deceptive Tactics? - bjcheung77 - 04-07-2025
No, they don't have any tactics at all, you're over thinking too much on nominal fees that they have... App fee $60, transfer fee $17/course, assessment or evaluation fee $140 for associates/bachelors...Certs are $200/assessment fee, Masters are different assessment fee as well. Other than that, there are no other fees, thus, they can't deceive you at all - unless of course, they say you've got a scholarship and you don't get any discount.
RE: Deceptive Tactics? - question - 05-20-2025
(04-06-2025, 03:34 PM)vrilpr Wrote: Has anyone else thy they use deceptive tactics to force you to pay for specific fees?
The fact that it calls itself "tuition-free" makes me doubtful. In reality, paying the fees is just another way of paying tuition, even if it's not in the traditional sense.
"Cheap tuition" (and not "tuition-free") would be more honest.
RE: Deceptive Tactics? - TINASAM - 05-20-2025
every college I've ever been to has had tuition and student fees. UoPeople just has the student fees not the tuition. They're two separate things.
Find something else to be mad at.
RE: Deceptive Tactics? - bjcheung77 - 05-20-2025
(05-20-2025, 05:20 PM)question Wrote:(04-06-2025, 03:34 PM)vrilpr Wrote: Has anyone else thy they use deceptive tactics to force you to pay for specific fees?
The fact that it calls itself "tuition-free" makes me doubtful. In reality, paying the fees is just another way of paying tuition, even if it's not in the traditional sense.
"Cheap tuition" (and not "tuition-free") would be more honest.
Basically... Have you read the posts after the first one? You're mixing peoples words and making it confusing for others. It's already been mentioned that there are associated fees. They don't charge tuition for the classes, they do have fees to apply, transfer credits, and get the classes graded, etc, and whatever else if anything.
You're making it sound like this. A free movie night isn't actually free because, you're going to watch the movie where they don't charge you for entrance or screening, but they charge you for drink and popcorn. They're liars as it's not a free movie at all... You don't have to pay for the drinks or popcorn, it's all on you.
RE: Deceptive Tactics? - question - 05-21-2025
(05-20-2025, 11:52 PM)bjcheung77 Wrote: They're liars as it's not a free movie at all... You don't have to pay for the drinks or popcorn, it's all on you.
The University of the people forces you to pay for the drinks or popcorn! In other words, it's the same as paying for the ticket (without paying for the drinks).
(05-20-2025, 05:49 PM)TINASAM Wrote: every college I've ever been to has had tuition and student fees. UoPeople just has the student fees not the tuition. They're two separate things.
well, it would be more honest if their advertising said "tuition-free but with fees", then.
A casual reader, unfamiliar with the subtle wordplay used by this school, is easily misled into thinking that "tuition-free" means "free".
RE: Deceptive Tactics? - TINASAM - 05-21-2025
It's not wordplay.
There are fees. If I sign up for cable TV there are fees plus what the cable costs.
You can keep beating this dead horse but schools have fees, it is part of it, and expected really. You add everything together to get the full total of cost.
Just because you seem ignorant of how the majority of United States universities and schools work, doesn't mean that they are on the ones that are tricking you. Do better.
RE: Deceptive Tactics? - question - 05-21-2025
(05-21-2025, 08:45 AM)TINASAM Wrote: It's not wordplay.
There are fees. If I sign up for cable TV there are fees plus what the cable costs.
The very fact that you are comparing this online school to cable TV business strategies casts serious doubt on the organization's supposed "humanitarian goals"
Anyway, I have to agree: this whole commercial venture strongly reminds me of the kind of marketing tricks — not always transparent — that phone and cable companies love to use.
Quote:You can keep beating this dead horse but schools have fees, it is part of it, and expected really. You add everything together to get the full total of cost.
I just wonder why these fees are not specified in the school's online advertisements. The ads state it's "tuition-free", but they don't say anything about the "fees". As I mentioned earlier, a casual reader, especially from developing countries, is easily misled into thinking that "tuition-free" means "free". A more accurate, and honest, phrasing could be "tuition-free plus fees", for instance.
Yes, the new customer can go read the website, where the fees are indeed mentioned, but by then they've already been drawn in by a misleading, clickbait-style advertisement.
Quote:Just because you seem ignorant of how the majority of United States universities and schools work, doesn't mean that they are on the ones that are tricking you. Do better.
For the record, I graduated in the U.S.
But thankfully, from a real university
that does not belong to "the people"
RE: Deceptive Tactics? - cozykamura - 05-30-2025
(05-21-2025, 12:51 PM)question Wrote: For the record, I graduated in the U.S.
But thankfully, from a real university
that does not belong to "the people"
Why join just to shit on this institution? Whatever you have been "debating" about has been discussed and answered for millions of times already. The fact of the matter is that it's regionally accredited, which puts this university on par with any other regionally accredited institution.
Moreeover, from your abrupt entrance and your post history, it does seem like your intentions are just to shit on this school.
I wonder if Americans would act in a similar way if they were given free healthcare, "it's not real healthcare", "there must be some malicious intent", "I got my checkup done from a "REAL" clinic" etc.