Stacey B.

When it comes to site like this I would say to start small and then see how it goes. I use to working in the shipping service so I made sure to pay attention because one time I used another overseas company and to try to fool me they generated the shipping label but the item wasn't ship and I knew how to decipher the shipping statuses. So I made my first order January 10 I used the ePacket option with tracking. It shipped out on the 13th great it got to US customs on the 18th. Mind you I check shipping every day to keep a status update. US customs sat on my package for 6 days and then it set in Jamaica, NY for 4 days! Why heck if I know it was just a shirt and pants. So I didn't get my package until the 28th of January. Which is no fault of Dresslink the US Post can just be slow some times.

Thought on my first order the pants I have to give away in donation my fault because I was expecting the material to be a bit more stretching. I will put this out there if you have hip and butt the likely hood that you find something you will fit on Dresslink probably will not happen. The Bohemian shirt I love.

Some might say why not return the pants. It was $2 and some change the cost of shipping back isn't worth it why not be charitable and give it to someone less fortunate. Also go a size bigger than what you are. With shirts I can wear Medium in US size so for the shirt I order L for it to fit me.

My first order to me was a success so I placed another order 1/27/2016 and grabbed a few more things. I got a dress for each of my daughters and some tops for myself. This time I used DHL and man has the package travel been flying it is expected to be here 2/2/2016!

I am still observing their pants which make me mad because they have alot of cute pants but the ones I see is the Free Size ones which I know will not cover my butt or make it past my hips. Every single pair of pants I come across is 9/10 Free Size.

To Dresslink since I know you do read the reviews on here ;) I would like to say I would love you to be my one time shops for alot of stuff but it would be nice if you could make more bottoms that are for women with 34 cir waist and 46 cir. Hips. Also your killing me with not having alot of shoes for women with US 9 1/2 - 10 feet size.:'(

So if your testing out a website with clothes my advice would be to start with something small like mines was about $9 including shipping and then go from there. So if you get scammed $9 is way better than $150.

I have visited numerous education sites and I would say this is the second one that I am paying out of pocket for. I am taking the Associate for Computer Information Systems that I start at the end of July 2015. Now one thing you need to ask yourself before pursuing anything with this school and be honest when you answer is "Can I self-manage myself? Can I self-motivate myself?" Because these are the key things you need with this school to be successful. The program I am in is broken into 4 Quarters/Semesters and there is a list to tell you what you will be taking in each section. To make this easier I will break it down.
TUITION
You have numerous options for paying for tuition but Financial Aid isn't one of them. The 3 options you have are 1. You can pay for that semester upfront which is about $1400 (estimated) <-You save about $350 with this option. 2. You can setup for automatic payments taken from you credit card or however. The monthly payment is setup at your initial registration for the course <-You save about $215 with this option. Finally you can send payments in by mail or do like me and just pay online. Don't understand the purpose of snail mail but to each their own. With this option you get no savings so the total cost would be around $1700. So how do it break down in cost per credit hours? $79 per credit hour. Now one thing you have to know about automatic payments after to many failed charged attempts your student account will be switch to manual monthly payments which then removes the discount that you got for being in the automatic payment service. This is mention in the agreement they have each student sign now if you switch it back on if it goes back on I can't say because I never switched mines back on due to my current limited employment situation.

COURSE
So how is the course done? Everything is online some educational books are provided to you digitally and other books you will need would be ship to you during the time that you would need them. You have the outline of your courses for that semester and when you get it done depends on you. You don't have a teacher setting due dates for your assignment the only thing you have is what you need to study and then the exam you need to take and 1 year to complete the quarter. What if you didn't make the time? You can pay $75 for a 6 month extension for the quarter. They even contact you for tutoring session that they may have going on. What if you need to speak to a teacher? Your program teacher is an email away and I would say I only heard within a few hours or no more than a day from my teacher. So I haven't had bad experience on that. Also some courses require you to take a Proctor Exam which you do have to find you own Proctor and pay for the service. You have to have them approved by PennFoster. They also tell you that some of your courses can transfer to some colleges and just to contact the college you would want to transfer to confirm if they accept PennFoster credits.
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
The most that I can say is that I haven't completed my course but I still have been trying to get in the field that is closely related to what I want to do. On my resume I do mention that I am a current student at Penn Foster College and that has not hinder me from getting call backs from employers. I would say honestly being that I don't have a degree but my high school and some college I really wasn't getting any calls back. So to me to get a call back and at least make it through an interview is a plus that I even got that opportunity versus close to zero calls.
But I would reiterate if you need your school plan set for you and dates set for you to get assignments done then this is not for you. If you can manage yourself and your education plus you don't mind being a lone wolf I would say give this a shot.
Then the most important thing is read what you are signing. Because you will look up Penn Foster and see some people have had bad experiences and majority from what I read is because they didn't take the time to read the fine print, read what they was agreeing to. To me isn't the school responsibility but the student.

I have attached a couple of shots of what you would see if you was signed up for a quarter and a course outline. Some may say $5,000 for an Associate is to much they can pay that at a local community college. Which is fine but that $5,000 won't cover the books that you need for the course or the other fees that are thrown on top of tuition cost. So this isn't for everyone and to save yourself the headache you should know what you are capable of.

The biggest nuisance is being that it is used a radio at times it will stop and ask are you still listening. And if your one of those people that clean while listening or doing other stuff it becomes a nuisance to click to confirm your listening.

I like Coursera but I feel it would be fair to warn people of my mistake and that was to pay for a signature track in full in advance months ahead.

Problem 1.
Didn't like 3 of 4 of the professors for the course. They were dull and stood in front of Powerpoint presentation blue screen with white letters and talked in the most monotone voice: |. I tried to suffered through it for a week but then removed myself from that course session. I was like maybe its just that one nope the following two were the same. So I was like I can't take this I would rather move over to another track then deal with this. Simple right? Wrong. Being that I paid in advance I couldn't get a refund. But I didn't want a refund I just wanted to move over to a different signature track even if I had to pay for the additional courses of the track. Mind you the average signature track is about $250 for four courses and the capstone project. All $49 each. 1 thing I hate is there is no phone number to talk to someone because clearly understanding what your saying in a support email doesn't work. So 1 out of the 4 courses I liked because the professor was more engaging then the others. For my $250 I got a voucher for 1 specialization course (valued@ $49) to replace the three I didn't want and the capstone (Valued@ $200). That was suppose to be acceptable because I was past the refund stage because I paied 6 months before the course even started. So best word of advance don't pay in advance register for free evaluate for a week then if you feeling the course pay for it. No matter how much they say this price won't last do not I mean do not pay in advance. Because also they say you get 2 years to take the course over if you pass the first time only problem is the clock starts when you pay not when the course starts.

But besides that you can find so interesting courses.