800-811-4634

Got a call on 10/19/09 from this number.  The caller ID says "HIGHER ED CALL".  Let it go to the answering machine, no message left.

i think its something with colleges

Message says they are a higher education resource center

No message but researched called "Word Smart" With Reference to People to People a Student
International Travel Blog regarding parent and student reaction

Researched number.Call Came up as "Word Smart" Link to People to People travel blog
regarding both positive and negative comments.

Sorry got two crank phone calls this evening. I WAS WRONG.Call claimed to be Saint Louis University.
Number was related to higher education . A young girl who could possibly be or pass for a recruiter
asked to speak to my son. I told her he was unavailable  and offered to get him for her to talk to. I came back to the phone  to tell her my son was still unavailable .She had hung up.

called at two in the morning central time. no message. who even does that?

Stop calling

call date and time: 1/3/2012 @ 6:09 p.m.
caller ID = TOLL FREE CALL

We get two to three calls a day from this number.  No caller ID other than "toll free call."

It probably is a higher education service as my son will be a senior next year and is getting several calls a day from colleges or companies who'll "help him" get into the college of his choice.

Unless there is a caller ID name, we don't ever answer the phone.  Since they don't leave messages, they won't ever have a chance with him.

Same as Mikey above.  No message + no legitimate caller ID = no communication at all.

let it go to voice mail, and they didnt leave a message

If they don't leave a message, it must not be very important

When your kid signed up for the SAT they checked the box that they you are ok with receiving info from these third party services offering scholarships and services. BIG MISTAKE. They will hound you for 6 months after your kid graduates from high school. They called here and I told them to stop calling because my daughter was going to be going to college on an athletic scholarship and we knew where she was going. Next thing you know the school they were calling from is sending us there information and calling the house. Higher Ed gets paid for every lead they provide these universities.

This is "Ruffalo CODY" which has national offices (in Iowa) and which contracts to make the calls for several colleges.
(they also use 888-356-2296)

If you don't have school-age children who might have put their home number down during testing, it could have been a prank in itself where someone else put your number down or it was given to them by mistake.  They can bypass the DNC because every number they call is submitted to them, usually on a form.  They are (aggressively) trying to finance students to go to one of their client colleges.

This number is a college recruiting agency and they don't normally call from the actual city of the school; They are a type of private college financing, fund-raising and recruiting business.

These people called me twice this evening because my teenage son said "Yes, I'd be interested in going to college in [x] Hawaii   [X] Oregon  [X] Washington" during some college prep testing at his high school.  However, I am not interested in sending my son to any of those places so he can pay for it himself or go here, locally.

Our kids are overriding our DNC listing by "inviting" them to call.  (sort of like inviting vampires into your home)

Called twice this week at 9pm,, ridiculous. first time i told them everyone in the house was asleep so it was an INAPPROPRIATE time to be calling. clearly they didn't get the hint because they did it again 3 days later. FRUSTRATING

nice try domestic terrorist .

This is "Ruffalo CODY" which has national offices (in Iowa) and which contracts to make the calls for several colleges.
(they also use 888-356-2296)

If you don't have school-age children who might have put their home number down during testing, it could have been a prank in itself where someone else put your number down or it was given to them by mistake.  They can bypass the DNC because every number they call is submitted to them, usually on a form.  They are (aggressively) trying to finance students to go to one of their client colleges.

This number is a college recruiting agency and they don't normally call from the actual city of the school; They are a type of private college financing, fund-raising and recruiting business.

Ruffalo Noel Levitz (supposed fundraising provider)... they are scum parasites who are looking to drain the wallets of parents as their children are preparing for their SATs and moving onto college. Thank you so much for selling out my kid you greedy [***].

So I figured it was going to be a scam call regardless of the "Toll Free Call" caller id.  And after researching this site, it is a scam.  So, here is the lesson:  If your kid is signing up to take the SAT/ACT don't allow your kid to put in a phone number because you're going to get calls like this on a weekly basis.  Crazy why these calls come through because they are competing with the other scammers and well, let's face it, no one answers their phone anymore.