declining enrollment at University of Phoenix

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Many students who attend for-profits do so to ease their way through the admission process of college, many of the requirments non-profits have, the for-profits are lenient on. During my sophomore year of college I worked in the testing and certification center at my school (state school), and while my school did accept transfer credit from these schools many students who would come from these schools would have to take placement test, as they had no ACT or SAT scores, where 90% of the time they would be placed in at least one non-credit course to fine tune their math, reading & writing skills. Many students wouldn't even enroll after they found out they had to take a course, and would just enroll in another for-profit school. It's pretty much just filling out an application, sending in your transcripts and your accepted; financial aid and everything else completed all at the same time.

However, this has now changed as @clep3705 is absolutely correct that many state universities are ran like for-profits. Here in Florida many of these students who would enroll at the for-profits, really no longer need to do so as of now if you attended high school post 2003 (no matter how you did academically) you are placed right into college math and college writing, where as before you may have been placed in a course to fine tune your skills (tested on Aleks). The way I see it... at the end of the day the non-profits still have to make money to survive, and the only reasons many of the these non-profit, private, state and universities schools are interested in distance learning is to increase revenue. They really don't care about distance learning at all.