Ai Online & EDMC: Scam Schools & Student Loan Predators

A brutally honest testimony from a soon-to-be former student of The Art Institute of Pittsburgh Online Division, or "Ai Online".

PLEASE, if you know anyone considering attending an Art Institute school, show them this video and save them the misery and suffering of ruining their lives financially.

Don't be taken advantage of by this chain of supposed colleges. Their courses are set up not to teach you, but to hand you an A+ just for showing up to class. They will not teach you what you need to know to land and keep a well paying job and at best, their terrible job placement is only going to get you a minimum wage job.

Their graduate employment rates are heavily distorted and dishonest. Their degrees have no respect on the job market and they will ruin your life with insurmountable student loan debt. What you are signing up for is not an education - you're signing up for indentured servitude and financial slavery.

This video, despite its intended humor, is a rallying call to students that have been victimized by The Art Institutes and the company that owns them - EDMC (Education Management Corporation).

Please contact us here on YouTube with your story so we can add it to the complication of testimonies. There are far too many of us out there and if we simply band together we can fight these criminals.

The Department of Justice is currently suing EDMC and we all need to speak up so that if the fraudulent company is brought to justice, we students might be paid damages for our wasted time, money and the terrible stress caused by these student loan predators.

We will use your e-mailed testimonies to make more videos to literally give voice to your specific stories.

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[shaffergjb]

What happened to the Face Book? Can't find it!

[aionlinescam]

Facebook wasn't really the problem. EDMC / Art Institutes spammed them that were violating copyright by using their logo. We immediately changed the logo to something totally unlike theirs, but they kept making fraudulent claims that we were violating copyright just to shut us down.

The group grew to over 300 "likes" in just two weeks and the wall was a landslide of outraged student stories, so they came after us. I backed up all the stories though, and they WILL be heard.

[NaomasDarkSide]

Im actually Currently Attending AIP at the moment. For Media arts And Animation. I do like some of the teachers. But honestly I have noticed some fishy things going around. Such as the random charges, and its true we never used the books. The only book we have ever used was for English class.. Honestly All they do is toss you from one person to another. And the dorms are shit if your crammed into them. They pair you with horrible roommates as well UGHHHHH This makes me want to turn tail and run.

[aionlinescam]

@NaomasDarkSide Can't recommend strongly enough you get out before you owe them anymore wasted money. Please contact your state attorney general with your story and join the movement to make people aware of the terrible damage this school and EDMC is doing to destroy our economy and the lives of the students it victimizes.

Groups are now "Occupying Ai" and protesting EDMC - your Ai degree is going to have even less respect soon.

Thank you for posting, friend. Stay strong.

[SallinKari]

Thank you for saving my wallet, my time, and my life... I'm just sad that I have no real way to help you. I mean, who listens to some guy uninvolved?

[aionlinescam]

@SallinKari That's incredible for me to hear, friend. Thank you so very much for posting.

There IS a very real way for you to help. Tell everyone you can about this fraudulent college and pass the help this video gave you on to someone else about to ruin their life.

Thank you!!

[SinnahPsychopathic]

@razoredge783 I'm gonna say both...but the student doesn't want to get in trouble...it's sad I say we pull a Fight Club and start our own soap businesses LOL

[MrIsh1992]

Lol, You sound like Jon from De-located. And I am also an Ex-Art Institutes student as well.

[SpongyDesign]

Wow My friend sent me this video today because I told her I am interested in the AI of Nothern VA for animation. I guess I'll pass now. THANKS!

[mattzoneify]

Anonymous ...

[1999primo915]

I moved 600 miles from el paso Texas to Austin TX, to come to this school. I didnt get any student loans so ive been paying out of pocket each month 200.00 and thats with Fin aid. Im only taking 12 credit hours cuz thats all i can aford. I really want to learn more cuz i feel like you saud, im not paying for something thats not worth it.

[DanniAliceNong]

Oh damnnnn... I was about to apply for the online course ! Scary shit. Thanks guys ^_^

[MaskedMasochist]

I am glad to see that people are getting angry and rising up. Ai is a huge scam, they only reason they get away with doing what they're doing is because sadly they technically aren't really breaking many laws, they do give you a rudimentary art school education. But if enough people get angry and rise up we can get better laws that protect consumers and students from this bullshit and get these pricks brought to justice.

[TheCarrottop666]

I have a really kind, caring friend who I recently met and hung out with. She is an amazing person, a little socially awkward, but an amazing human being. I heard her complaining about student loan debt and all that, so I went to look up where she was going. She is a very talented artist, and she goes to one of these Art Institute schools. Thank you so much for your story, I am definitely going to tell her what I've heard, and see if I can help her find and get into an ACCREDITED degree program.

[nhiapthao]

On top of all this, when i told them my first choice, someone on the phone told me that the other school was a bad choice and that their tuition was 60,000 a year, versus Ai's 27,000. Back then i was naive and i didn't know better, but i checked the math after i got swindled into it and my first choice was only 2,000 more than Ai. Bullshit!

[nhiapthao]

I am currently in the process of leaving the MN Ai for a different school in the area. I've been here for 2.5 years and i can honestly say i hated almost every moment of it. Financial Aid is always screwing something up, courses are terrible, and the worst part is that non of my credits would transfer to this other school I'm considering. Some of the teachers are really talented and i liked them, but I've considered this long enough. I NEED TO GET OUT!

[Jinx919]

LMAO I go to This online Division and I think Its Great Your Suppose to Take You Skills to the Next level On your own You want to make Games make dem get better on your own time thats what XNA and 3ds max and all that shit is for there just Noobs man Dont listen to dem degrees dont really matter..lmao if im better than you at it its just that simple...N00bs lmao