The art instititue of Pittsburgh online is a scam, i have proof of one of their advisors telling me that Fafsa would cover my tuition if I switch to part time but then hit me with a 20,000 bill on my senior year. Then when I provided student affairs with the proof... THEY PULL ME OUT OF CLASSES. Mind you, I had over 10 grand left in fafsa funds. They lied to me saying that I had nothing left. I have been getting stomache pains over this, i'm 6 months pregnant and their driving me to a nervous breakdown. They also told me they will hold my diploma and transcripts if I don't pay them 20 grand. SICK SADIST AND EVIL.

in 2011 i went to the art institute of Vancouver but i had a nervous break down on student residence so they put me on interim suspension because i had multiple panic attacks before the nervous break down. i didn't vandalize anything, or hurt anyone or made any threat to anyone or myself. i just lost it due to having social anxiety living in a 2 bedroom apartment with 3 other girls and being on generic conceta didn't help it just made me felt anxiousness which caused some heart papulation as well;i find generic concerta comes on way to fast and strong for me. i was also over whelmed due to the financial issues i was going trough partial because Canada post was on strike so it took 2 months into school for me to receive them and when i did received my grants every since dollar and penny went to the school. even if i did get my loans which i am glad i didn't i would have had any for my living expense due to the over charged intuition and the student residence is a complete rip off as well it cost 2,344 a quarter which is only for 2 and half months. anyways since i was put on an interim suspension i agree to go back to Calgary for a psychological assessment from a psychiatrist and i was required to seek help and develop a safety plan and get a doctors note from my psychiatrist stating i was well to go to school. i went out of my way to get a psychiatrist and when i did i did everything i was suppose to do. i got the assessment. i seek help from a therapist and we both worked my my safety plan and i got on the right medications and i got a doctors not from my psychiatrist . i provided everything i needed to get back into school but the director or student affair kept screwing me around making me jump through the same dam hoops. when i showed her the safety plan she state she wanted a personal letter from my therapist which would have cost to much money and my therapist didn't understand why the director of student affair was making un hasty request. when i told her it cost too much money for me to get my therapist to write a letter or send any reports but she could talk to her personally, the director responded that i needed to get a full psychological assessment and a note stating i was good to go to school so she wanted me to do it all over again. i already send her my assessment and doctors note and the safely plan. i think she was just trying to keep me out of school or making it harder for me because they don't have the guts to tell me they don't want me back because i am too mental fucked up and they don't give a shit. know i own the school 5145.53 according to the collectors agency but i asked for an outline balance and it states i owe 5132 but originally i owed them 4350 or 4380 but know they charged me with a housing penalty fee. another crappy experience that came out of the art institute of Vancouver they told me not to worry about my fees and not to worry about alberta student loans because they said they would contact them personally to let them know i was withdrawn form the program and they where going make sure they canceled my loans. they lied about that too because at when i first when on medical welfare i end up getting cut off from Alberta works(welfare) because i was still receiving student grants and loan at my old student residence and i got blamed for it. i had no idea ai told them shit so i had to jump through so many hoop just to cancel all loans that where never send to me and i and to write a long letter stating what happened. i understand that sending me home to seek help was completely understandable and i was reasonable and cooperative about the situation but each time i mad an accomplishment to there deal they made excuses and i think they sugar coded a lot when they put me on an interim suspension. regard all the crap i went through i am glad i decided not to bother or waste my time with ai because if i hadn't had my break down i couldn't imaging how much i would own student loans. lucky i didn't sign over any loans just grants do i only owe that crappy school a shit load of money and not the student loans. for one quarter student residence included it cost about 7,117 per quarter which is only 2 and a half months. the student quarter fee is only 170 which doesn't seem bad however they also charge students with a tuition charge which cost about 3,753 for 2 and a half month. i can't personalty say they are a complete scam because there may be some student that got something out of it but i since i was in for fashion design i could have went to better school that where so much more cheaper than that rip off school. however i am not really into the fashion design anymore. know i am into art and wearable art. i am know on the waiting list for acad which is a real college for art and design and unlike ai you need a good portfolio to get in so my experience was a bitter sweet. sorry for my life story i just want to get my experience out for for anyone who is thinking about going into any ai school and just look and the pros and cons and if you get withdrawn always i mean always call the student aid your self don't trust the school no matter what. i honestly couldn't believe how naivete i was. this is my final message to all you young students that are new to college or any post secondary, remember this shop around for your school and don't just look at what wonderful things they have to offer look at the whole picture especially the intuition because it's not worth trowing you money away to an over priced school when there are other school that can offer the same thing or even better with a more reasonable price. private school are a rip off keep that in mind or at least most of them are but just look at intuition and fee before applying or signing any agreements

I go to an Art Institute in Silicon Valley. I am majoring in Culinary and so far I am up there. I don't have anything in loans, just $1,050 and I have been going to school year for half a year already. I don't have to pay anything because every quarter I get $3,500 from Cal-Grant and $1,500 from Pell-Grant which pays off my tuition. The only reason why I get so much free money is because I was a straight up 4.0 student in Middle and High School. And that paid off because I have rarely anything out in loans for my Associates in Culinary. By the time I graduate I will be able to ay it off easily because I already have the money saved and I can come back for my Bachelors. My 4.0's paid off and maybe if the writer of this journal would have been better in school the he/she would have nothing in loans because $1,050 Is nothing to me for my education I am getting here. So maybe if you were not being dumb and retarded in school you could have been doing good! SO DON'T BLAME THE SCHOOL FOR YOUR RETARDEDNESS AND BECAUSE YOU CANT BE SUCCESSFUL!! Own to your F**** mistakes idiot!!!!!

I think it's bullshit that DeviantArt is blocking the URL to SueAI.. probably because they pay to advertise here. Nice job DA! *the finger*

well i know that they ARe being sued by the federal government in fraud because they are stealing federal aid but does anyone know whats going to happen to the students that are left with debt?

i just dropped out after my first semester owing close to 4k in student loans. i dropped out because the financial aid people working for ai are incompetent and scam artists who pretend to be your friend while taking you from behind with lies and deceit. FUCK AI

FUCK U GUYS