Former Kaplan University students have collected more than 6,000 signatures with an online petition demanding that the school shut down its admissions and hire an outside party to handle student complaints. Twenty-five ex-students started the petition after reports that the for-profit university had been billing students for classes they never took to boost enrollment numbers and secure large amounts of federal education money.

“More and more former Kaplan students are coming forward with horror stories about the bogus classes, surprise fees and deceptive policies they encountered as they struggled to achieve the American dream,” reads the petition, which is posted on Change.org.