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    What Do Students Do When a For-Profit College Closes?

    Unfortunately, they may not be able to do much.
    by Adam Harris Dec 08, 2018 4 minutes
    Source: Liam Bailey / Getty

    Jasmine Lee had finally found something she was happy with and wanted to pursue. She had been working as a medical assistant at an orthopedic center, and she was enjoying it. But she wanted more. So she figured she should check out the certificate program at Virginia College in Birmingham, where she works.

    “I'm just trying to better myself, and provide a better life for my kids,” Lee, the 23-year-old mother of two, told me. Last summer, she decided to enroll. She applied to the medical-assistant certificate program, got accepted, and found out she was eligible for the financial aid. Everything happened very fast,

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