<p>i would like to see what caa is like could you send me the info?</p>
<p>Google it. Why does this post keep coming up? Lol.</p>
<p>I recently got a card inviting me to a special event from a company called "Edifi". I looked it up on the Better Business Bureau website; it seems to be a scam as well.</p>
<p>Hello! My name is Brett and I am one of the coaches with CAA. We normally don’t come across entries like these on a blog. However, when this came to my attention, I wanted to make sure each of the readers understood who we are and who we represent. Our passion is to help students discover who they are, where they are headed and what they should do to prepare themselves for college. So if anyone would like to learn the truth about our organization and service, we will welcome direct calls to our home office at 1-866-642-4750. You can even ask for me. Hope to hear from some of you!</p>
<p>Brett</p>
<p>Ads are banned on here, buddy.</p>
<p>Hey, I recently joined CAA (junior going to senior in HS) and so far there are parts that seem similar to a scam such as the way they ask you for money right after the seminar. But after joining the program, there are some programs worth it such as the SAT/ACT/PSAT practice. other than that, i haven't had much use for them yet.</p>
<p>I am a 15yr old boy and I just recieved a letter from CAA Workshop and I did a little research on their organization. To me so far they are fakes because if they want to help families achieve their college goals why are they a PRIVATE ORGANIZATION (it says right on their website). They also have TWO WEBSITES College</a> Admission Assistance and College</a> Admissions Assistance. The first website is basically plain and has nothing on it except the ability to login with your reservation number and last name. The second website HAS THE LOGIN FEATURE TOO PLUS WITH ALL THE CONTACTS/ABOUT US and all that good stuff. They also do not state when their organization was made. On the website College</a> Admissions Assistance, it says
2225 East Randol Mill Rd.
Suite 300
Arlington Downs Tower
Arlington, TX 76011
as their main location of where the organization originated. Well, I did some research and found it that Arling Downs Tower is part of a SIX FLAGS COMPANY WITH A DELI-SANDWICH SHOP AND RECOGNIZED ENTERTAINMENT AND RESTAURANT HOT SPOTS, here is the link where it says all this and it was updated on 6/8/08, very recently </p>
<p>LoopNet</a> - Arlington Downs Tower, Office Building, Arlington, TX</p>
<p>My parents have already arranged an appointment for me in about two weeks, I am going to go to it; but I will ask them THESE questions and why they are so money hungry because they ask for it right away when the interview/appointment starts. I will soon find out if they are legitimate or a scam.</p>
<p>I signed up for this last year when my child was entering her senior year. I got tremendous help from CAA and my daughter was accepted to her first choice school with over $30,000 in merit aid per year. Lets see, $2000 vs. $120,000, I think I made the right choice. And no, I am not destitute but have a rather nice middle class life. Oh, and did I mention CAA helped her with the test prep for the SAT's and her scorre went up by almost 200 points!! Kaplan and Princeton review were over $1000 just for test prep! Go to the seminar and listen...it will cost you nothing to find out if they can help or not....and as someone else posted here, there was no high pressure at all. I attended a workshop in Maryland and was very impressed with the counselors they had working there (the Harvard guy was really cute too).....</p>
<p>^Well, it is extremely unlikely that she would've gotten no merit aid if she hadn't signed up; I wonder how much of that CAA alone was responsible for. I would guess that it wasn't much. Also, SAT scores commonly increase 200 points the second time without any preparation, solely from the experience gained from the first time.</p>
<p>^^This thread has become troll alley. Seriously, half the posters on this page have only posted once in their CC careers. I would be especially wary of CAA after all these questionable posts.</p>
<p>EDIT: LOL, "CC careers."</p>
<p>Well, some of the first-time posts seem legitimate. I think the general conclusion is to not use CAA. Let's let this thread die.</p>
<p>Oh, ok...so someone who calls themselves "Proletariat" gets to say when the thread dies...lol and in reference to the post regarding the my daughters merit aid and SAT scores I would ask you to keep in mind that I did not know about merit aid and the schools that offered it until I went to a workshop, and received the help I needed. I am not saying people can not do some of this on their own, but in my case I needed the help and got what I paid for. As someone who went through the program ,it is not a scam and they did everything they said they would. The rest of theses posts are interesting, but irrelevant as only 2 people actually signed up. The negative post was from a 15 year old.......come on folks.</p>
<p>Actually I, the OP, asked the thread to die since it's almost a year old and we've already established it was a scam.</p>
<p>Oh ok, I guess you have to have the final word then...it is not a scam, there now ..HA HA</p>
<p>well ill like to c please cux my parents just did that same mistake too... another question... are they actualli keeping up with ur things or not?</p>
<p>I just got out of the workshop. They came to a local hotel. I did zero homework going in and did not know what to expect.</p>
<p>They gave a hour long presentation. Concept seemed reasonable and you you start to think about college (I have a 10th & 8th grader).</p>
<p>After the presentation came the "interview". The saleswoman, I mean consulter, directed all the questions to my 15 year old daughter and didn't really include me.... until the shoe dropped - $2000 for their services.</p>
<p>Like any good scam, I mean HIGH PRESSURE SALES PITCH, I had to sign up on the spot AND make payment in full. There was no option to think about it and buy into the program next week. It was now or never.</p>
<p>I may not be the smartest guy in the world, but one of my hard and fast rules says I don't commit to anything (especially if there's real $$ involved) without doing my homework and talking it over with the wife.</p>
<p>I'm sure some folks can find real value in a service like this, but if you didn't fall off the apple cart yesterday and you have some time to look into the process, I think you'll be fine.</p>
<p>I will say this, the pitch did open my eyes and suggest that MY FAMILY get in the game.</p>
<p>Good luck,
S</p>
<p>Update:</p>
<p>Hi everybody. I've gotten a TON of emails asking to see CAA..... So I thought it'd be a good idea to sort of, 'save' parts of the CAA website, and upload it to another server (since my CAA account is about to expire). </p>
<p>y/n?</p>
<p>My daughter and I went to the seminar 2 days ago. I have one more day to change my mind because I impulsively, because I want to give my daughter every opportunity, agreed to this program. I just recieved a phone call from my step dad telling me he looked into it and I should cancel immediately that I am just paying someone for things I can do myself and wasting money we REALLY don't have. My 15 year old daughter was willing to get a job just to help pay her almost 1/3 responsibility for this because she is so college minded and bound and it made sense to her as well. I started looking on here for answers...There is no cost for the seminar but there is for the program. You Pay $1900.00 + up to over $200.00 for finance fee's if you can't afford to pay up front, we agreed to $77.00 biweekly for 6 months and she would recieve these services for all 3 years until the day she walks through the doors at college. I think I am going to take the other posters advice and err on the side of caution. I can always get involved another time if I decide too, I guess. And poster: edaish, I would be very interested in seeing, would you email me at <a href="mailto:ugokgirl@yahoo.com">ugokgirl@yahoo.com</a> thank you.</p>
<p>Yes edaish I think that would be a great and smart idea to save part of your website.</p>
<p>You can do so much better with ANY other program other than this scam. They give you the same information any college admissions helper person (can't think of the real name right now) for less than 1/5 of the cost of this program. </p>
<p>Please do not be scammed. One of my friends was recently and they did very little to nothing more than our high school counselor did.</p>