What is the most common complaint against College Foundation, Inc.?

The most common issue consumers report about College Foundation, Inc. is "Took or threatened to take negative or legal action", specifically "Threatened or suggested your credit would be damaged". This is based on 31 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against College Foundation, Inc. increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against College Foundation, Inc. are rising. The company received 24 complaints in the last 12 months, indicating an upward trend in consumer issues.

What is College Foundation, Inc.'s reputation grade?

College Foundation, Inc. has a reputation grade of D (score: 55.8/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does College Foundation, Inc. respond to consumer complaints?

College Foundation, Inc. has a 100% timely response rate to CFPB complaints.

In how many states does College Foundation, Inc. operate?

College Foundation, Inc. has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 3 states, with the most complaints from North Carolina (29 complaints).

This data comes from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database and reflects consumer complaints, not proven violations.

College Foundation, Inc. - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 3 states, reputation grade D.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

24
Attempts to collect debt not owed

5
Written notification about debt

2

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record college-foundation-inc College Foundation, Inc.

Grade D · 31 CFPB filings · 100% timely · lead issue: Took or threatened to take negative or legal action · vol #1515 · compose #3186

VOL 31
GRADE D
12MO 24
STATES 3
TIMELY 100%
ISSUE Took or threatened to take…
RANK #1,515
COMPOSE #3,186

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: Amscot Corporation (31 complaints)

CFPB complaint volume neighbourhood (this collector + nearest volume peers)

College Foundation, Inc.'s 31 CFPB complaints sit next to Amscot Corporation on the volume neighbourhood; peer NAMES stay, and disposition VALUES are this collector's. Grades compare collectors to each other - a complaint is a filing, not a proven violation. How to read a complaint count →

State-heavy filing map

93.5% of College Foundation, Inc.'s CFPB filings land in North Carolina

High volume does not equal a clean composite: College Foundation, Inc. is volume #1,515 but composite #3,186, while North Carolina dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: North Carolina 93.5%; 29 of 31 filings · 3 states touched
Seasonal peak: 2014-03 12.5%; 8–15% band · 2 filings
Divergent corpus ranks: #1,515 volume; #3,186 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 1,671 places worse than volume

How does College Foundation, Inc. compare to its peers?

How does College Foundation, Inc. compare? Versus a similar-volume peer and the national average (collectors with ≥50 total complaints), drawn from 10 collectors with a comparable complaint count

College Foundation, In… National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

100%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2014-03 2018-03

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	24
Attempts to collect debt not owed	5
Written notification about debt	2

Where do complaints against College Foundation, Inc. come from?

College Foundation, Inc.'s own per-state count, not a national baseline.

North Carolina

29
Connecticut

1
Pennsylvania

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for College Foundation, Inc.: nearest all-time CFPB complaint volume and nearest CFPB timely-response rate among collectors with at least 100 logged complaints. State breakdowns above stay geographic; these neighborhoods vary by metric.

Similar filing volume

Nearest collectors by total CFPB complaints. This record: 31.

4 peers

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Data sourced from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainCollector

According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Consumer Complaint Database, 1,139,236 debt collection complaints are represented in the current PlainCollector snapshot. See our methodology for how PlainCollector computes each company's reputation grade from this data.

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