Apparently these fools haven’t taken many courses in their lifetime. There is always a push for positive reviews at the end.
Trump probably should have been more selective about who he let take the course.
There are probably a lot of college graduates who would like to sue their alma mater right now too. 4 year degree to work as an unpaid intern. Ha.
The initial seminars were “free”. Here is one of the promo ads that ran on TV:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSpStU1paAI
Except that the “free” seminar (The Trump University Introductory Class) did not teach much of anything and was actually nothing but a hard sell sales pitch to sign up participants for the paid seminars, which according to the lawsuits, also did not deliver the promises of instructors “handpicked” by Trump or any of Trumps “secrets” and the supposed apprenticeships and mentors and access to financers that people had paid for, never materialized.
There was no screening or any admission requirements other than having the money to pay and FWIW at the “free seminars” many reported that the “instructors” told them to max out their credit cards, fraudulently get their credit card companies to increase their credit limits and in some cases told the “students” to take a loan against or cash out their 401K to pay for more Trump U seminars.
Over the last 30 years or so I’ve been working in the business world, in accounting and PR and HR, I’ve gone to a lot of business seminars and or training classes (Fred Pryor, SkillPath, ADP, Oracle and seminars through the local Chambers of Commerce to name just a few examples), often paid for by my employer, but never, ever have I been ever asked to complete or turn in an evaluation non-anonymously or before the class was even complete nor in anyway was I ever pressured to turn in a positive evaluation as a condition for getting my CME credit or a certificate of completion, or as a condition for signing up for further seminars or classes.
Did the “instructors” ask for a positive evaluation? Sure they did. But allowing me to complete the evaluation anonymously, often on-line after I returned to my office, allowed me to submit a subjective review of the instructor and of the course materials. I was sometimes told that the overall ratings and scores and some comments may be shared with the instructor, but that it would be done so anonymously. But I never had to sign my name to any evaluation in writing or in front of the instructor or turn in an evaluation in writing to the instructor with my name on it, and if I had been asked to, I would have refused.
Any company providing seminars and or training classes who is truly interested in getting honest feedback in order to improve the course or course materials and to evaluate the instructors would do the same.