Do not sign anything! Do not transfer!!!
Please check out your options such as school closed discharge: (This applies for federal loans)
https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/closed-school
Restoration of GI Bill Benefits After School Closure:
https://www.benefits.va.gov/gibill/fgib/restoration.asp?fbclid=IwAR2NftPsbbsbXCJWw7hqpXCp8bf7VvjMxN2ikBwh_W0JgP0QX87YEXWrMsY
If you are not filing for school closure, file for the Defense to Repayment here:
https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/borrower-defense#borrower-defense-application
Dispute your private loans here and join the Debt Collective community:
https://tools.debtcollective.org/
If you need to speak someone for legal advice pro bono, please contact the Harvard Lawyers whom we are in contact with:
https://predatorystudentlending.org/contact/
Retrieve your transcripts here:
https://www.artinstitutes.edu/closed-school-information-page
We are an active community ready to organize together. As to my knowledge, Ai Pittsburgh has been hit pretty hard with the layoffs and the announcement to close. This inexcusable poor management has gone on for years.
Here is proof of the recruitment tactic committed by the Art Institute from EDMC. Dream Center likely did not change how they aggressively recruited too:
https://www.republicreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/NEIA-EDMC-Complaint-Filed-7-30-2018.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2qk9PcwfG684EsR_qjE7sWi1IfuU-EU7sCrEO0liNrqq3mh0BkAyqtOuw
The lawsuit win against DeVos:
https://predatorystudentlending.org/updates/judge-strikes-down-department-education-illegal-delay-borrower-defense-rule/