I believe that I am a victim of predatory lending and bad business practices. I was promised a superior education that was to be followed by a dedicated staff that would stay with me through the hiring process when I enrolled at XXXX XXXX of XXXX XXXX in 2006. I was sold a dream that did not exist and pressured into signing for loans that I did not understand. Once it was found that I would not be able to fund my education completely through XXXX form of federal loan I was informed that there was another type of federal loan. They proceeded to tell me that all I needed to have in order to guarantee funding was XXXX individuals with poor credit that would automatically get denied and their permission to do a credit check so that I could benefit from the other loans. This is what we did. We used my mother and sister as potential cosigners and once they were denied the financial aid office told me I was eligible for full funding. Within a few minutes they had whisked me away and had me sign paper after paper. I started to become hesitant and it was at that point my recruiter began to give me a speech about how I was older than the traditional college student and that I needed to jump on this opportunity now if I ever wanted to amount to someone who could provide for my family. She told me it was extremely hard to make it through life with a lower class job and that this may be my one and only chance to get out. At no point did they ever tell me that the loans I was signing up for were private loans that would not follow the same deferment guidelines as the federal loans. From what I understood all of my loans were federally funded. 

Obviously I signed up to be a student and during that time ran into many roadblocks that made me regret choosing XXXX. It was't until much later when I decided that the school was a fraud that I was informed my credits would n't transfer. I only decided to stay because I was informed that my degree WOULD transfer and that I could obtain my XXXX at another school. Upon graduating I found out that was a lie. None of the state universities would touch me. The only schools willing to look my way were other high dollar schools such as XXXX and University XXXX XXXX which cost up to $ XXXX out of pocket. Now today I am stuck with $ XXXX in debt ( will be $ XXXX by the time interest is paid ) and a degree that I can not use. Payments are expected to be around {$700.00} a month but who can afford that and live? This story can be heard from victims all over the nation and something needs to be done. 

My loans were originally through XXXX XXXX but are now handled by Navient. I believe XXXX XXXX was aware of the bad lending procedures at XXXX and other for profit schools and turned a blind eye. They did not have to provide XXXX with the ability to provide funding to students but they did and now students everywhere are drowning.