WASHINGTON – A government report detailing the findings of an undercover investigation of for-profit colleges’ recruiting techniques reveals admissions and financial help officers engaged in unethical and at times illegal practices, all in the interest of persuading students to enroll and receive federal economic help. At a college in Texas, a financial help officer told an undercover applicant interested in a bachelor’s degree in building management not to report $250,000 in savings on the Cost-free Application for Federal Student Aid, stating that it was not the government’s enterprise how substantially income the undercover applicant had in a bank account,” the report mentioned, though the Education Division needs help applicants to disclose all savings and revenue.

It really is more geared towards freebies than raking in income, while you can make little income on some jobs. At a college in California where an undercover student was interested in a certificate in …