Many Americans, especially new LPNs, have been convinced by The College Network (TCN) and their representatives that they are a distance learning school and by signing a contract with TCN, they have signed up for an accredited school that would allow them to easily bridge from LPN to RN from home at their own pace. The salesmen/women are fast talkers, there have been a flood of reports that they will flat out lie to make the sale. One site, https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/The-College-Network-Reviews-E19504.htm , on which many employees and ex employees report that they are trained on how to scam consumers into signing a contract, making statements like:

"Also there is prompting of deception with the customers."

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"program is somewhat of a scam, takes advantage of vulnerable class of people who do not understand what they are signing up for. You will be taught to have people sign contracts very quickly without having fully understanding exactly what they are getting into. I had too much of a consciousness to do this job. Very few people will actually graduate, most will end up in collections." 

Consumers are told that TCN provides tuition financing and representatives convince consumers to a contract with the belief that the approximately $12,000 will pay for the materials, cost of testing for prerequisites, the cost of classes at Excelisor, and clinicals at one of TCN's certified clinical sites, and that all that was left to pay out of pocket was lodging during clinicals. The material that is sold to consumers is no more than printed versions of information that could easily be found on the internet, without following any real curriculum pertinent to passing the exam it is claimed to . Many people have reported that have even attempted an exam only to find that everything that the questions on the test are not covered in the "class module" provided by TCN for that subject. Others have reported that they were unable to get their exam fees refunded as TCN promises. I, myself, was told by the rep that The College Network was an accredited school, affiliated with Excelisor College. They give you a few days to cancel the contract, but the contractee usually does not understand the extent of what they have actually signed a contract for until their books come, they check into the Excelisor College they falsely claim to be affiliated with, or even when they attempt an exam, whatever finally throws a red flag that they have been scammed it is always too late to cancel according to TCN. These scam artists take thousands of dollars from our families and if the "student" doesn't pay, they are sent to collections, and are being sued. TCN is playing on the hope of hardworking nurses across the US, they are trashing nurses chances at furthering their education, bettering their lives for themselves and their families, they are garnishing our pay, ruining our credit, leaving a trail of public record of the nurses irresponsibility to paying what they owe, but it is TCN that is acting irresponsibly, that is taking what is not due them. 

I want TCN stopped from scamming Americans! I want TCN to release all current "students" from contract and I want the money that consumers have paid for TCN's overpriced, worthless materials returned to them. Please sign and help us stop this company from taking from families.