“Don’t go there!! they will wine and dine you until thee is a problem.”

Wine and dine you? From the moment I heard of the school to now, it has been made very clear to me and other students that their schedule tries to reflect each industries (Film, Recording Arts, Show Production…) real life work schedule as much as possible.

“there high priced schooling does not have transferable credits!!”

True many classes do not have transferable credits, some classes you are required to take regardless of any previous schooling you might have, and many classes you are given the opportunity to test out. I can only speak for the Film degree, but there are several classes that are eligible for credit transfer. I HATE algebra, and there’s no way i’ll take it again, I have fulfilled all my math requirements at a community college in my home town and I am in the process of transferring those credits to Full Sail at this very moment. But anyone in their right mind would/should know this before filling out the enrollment application. As for the “high priced schooling” well if you think its too expensive for you then don’t go there, no one is forcing you to enroll at Full Sail.

“ARTi has better equipment and smaller class sizes.”

I have absolutely no clue as to the equipment used at ARTi, but if ARTi does have better equipment I can’t imagine it being much better than the equipment at Full Sail. Once again, I can only speak for the Film degree, but the equipment that Full Sail uses rivals that of many Hollywood studios. As for class size true they do have rather large class sizes, but for example many if not most classes have anywhere from 20 to 60 students give or take, but the students are divided into smaller groups of about 6-10 depending on class size with each group having its own teacher, or as its known here at Full Sail a “Lab Specialist”

“The grad rate is about 88%. The placement rate is 75%. What they don’t tell you is - is the 75% only the current grad class or the past 2 yrs or past 3 yrs.? In other words, if a grad class has 100 students, only about 90 will graduate. Of that 90, only 68 will get jobs in their chosen profession. This is the best case scenario. Over two years, only about 83 students will be placed out of 200.”

“The grad rate is about 88%,” “a grad class has 100 students, only about 90 will graduate.” huh? the last time I checked 88% of 100 is 88, not 90.

According to the numbers you claimed to have gotten from a Full Sail admission specialist in a class of 100, 88 will graduate, and 75% percent of that 88, will get a job in their chosen profession which is 66. So in a class of 200, 176 will graduate, and 132 students will graduate AND get a job in their chosen profession. But according to you “only about 83 students will be placed out of 200.”

Good luck!

Teaching is fun, it’s hard to remember when they node their heads and say “yes I’ll do that” they have no idea what your talking about even if you’ve explained it like 100 times before.

If you give them a small assignment in class and they can’t handle it you’ll learn more then they every will tell you.

And give them psuedo-code to build if they can’t build from psuedo-code it becomes another clear sign of what they learned/remember.

Mark Badger