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DO NOT GO TO THIS SCHOOL!

I went here as a veteran student and had nothing but issues from day 1 with the school and staff.

Here is 9 constructive reasons why not to go to this school:

1. Flashy advertisement that don’t actually show the real academics. The academics are very poorly constructed. I took two classes there and it both of the classes could have easily been 10 minutes worth of slide shows.

2. The staff is unresponsive once they have your money and you are in the courses. If you need any help with them, they won’t. I had to go in physically every time if I needed something gone just to see them chit chatting amongst each other rather than helping the students.

3. They won’t accept my transcripts. I had schooling completed at a regionally accredited university that I was trying to transfer from. I sent it to them multiple times and still they insisted that I had to take their. It was only until I told them I will be leaving the school is when they said they would accept them. The school’s accreditation is national, but DO NOT TRUST THAT. In the classes they don’t even require citations for the school. I have never heard of a college that doesn’t use citations? None of the information you learn is peer reviewed.

4. Instructors are always late for classes and will try to extort you to pay them for additional information that you should be learning in the school but isn’t taught in class. The instructors tend to get side track and talk about unrelated topics. The reality is you will be off subject for 40% of the time in class. I timed it.

5. I am a big on learning from successful people. People who have made it in the industry. The people who work here are the who didn’t make it in the industry. You have better luck saving your money and studying successful people on youtube or researching in a different way. On that subject, some of the assignments require you to watch youtube anyhow!!

6. There is a Tech Kit that the school MAKES you pay for. The cost is around $6,000 plus or minus $1,000 depending on which program you are going to be in. The school makes a BIG PAYCHECK by up-charging you so you will buy this off of them. This is a predatorily tactic that makes you think “well, I have already spent $ XXXXXX so I got to stick it out.”

7. Look at all the 5 star reviews by the people who have “attended” the school. Most of them are ghost accounts trying to offset the amount of people telling you not to go.

8. Look up what the median salary of whatever you want to do is. Is it worth being $35k-$50k in student debt? Will you only be able to make $25,000-$35,000 a year? How are you going to survive especially when most of the jobs are in California and the cost of living is stupid high? A studio in LA costs nearly $3,000 a month not including utilities. It only makes sense if you have dumb money and you really don’t care, but there is much better options than this, trust me.

9. It was an absolute nightmare trying to leave this school. I an glad I was able to capture and email to myself all the things they were doing to me. MAKE SURE YOU DOCUMENT EVERYTHING AND IF YOU TALKED ABOUT SOMETHING IN PERSON, SEND A FOLLOW UP EMAIL TO THEM COVERING WHAT YOU TALKED ABOUT. This will help when they try to mess with you in the future. I don’t think individuals are necessarily trying to mess with you, but collectively as an organize, they don’t want to be in the wrong.

Additionally for my veterans, that Tech Kit is a dangerous thing. I am pretty sure they are misusing the GI Bill and including that in tuition. Luckily for me, I did not get the Tech Kit and left the school before I did. Once this whole thing gets exposed, I grantee the VA will come after you to make you pay it it back. It is just a really messes situation to be in. Be smart and remember what the military taught you.

If you have read this far and still are considering going to the school then just please consider my review

This is not a school. It is a money pit.

I have heard of this school and I get their materials as a college admissions counselor. I think I’m going to tour this school because I want to evaluate it on my own.

To students who are looking at programs like this its important to see what the graduates say. It appears that some talented people went to this program and feel they got what they needed.

What first concerns me about this school is that they accept 100% of their applicants pools. In other words, they take everyone regardless of the fit. No real college or university accept 100%.

Another thing that concerns me are their degrees. There are many schools where the degree you earned will not be accepted because it’s not recognized as a college or university.

A lot of schools are hurting today, and real colleges like ASU are buying them out. This is great because a school that has built a brand can now function under a bigger umbrella.

Here is my advice, before you commit to a school like this, make sure to do your homework before you apply. Tour the school, and even spend the money and hire a trained college counselor to help guide you. They might charge $300-$350, but they can give you a lot of hands on experience that they have gotten by touring colleges across the country and that’s better than losing $92,000 to a school that may not be recognized by other educational institutions.

I’m giving 3 stars because there is merit to all the reviews, and I think this is the school that offers summer programs for high school students., however look at other schools that can give more bang for the buck.

If i could give the enroll me t process here a zero, literally i would. Nick Valez was the only person i spoke to their, that was professional and tactful and he was in admissions. I was unfortunately transferred to the “military enrollment team” who’s back ground of education was apparently the 4th grade level of comprehension, from what i gathered. Based on the conversations i had with these folks! I have blocked this entity from my phone, my email, and removed their school code from my fafsa, and am sorry that they has access to my personal credentials I submitted to them! Donita Giles in military enrollment as well as every other idiot i spoke with at this place was Ghetto, Ignorant, non-articulate, Rude, and Extremely Unprofessional. I have “NEVER” experienced an enrollment process that was such a dumb fluke in my life. Do yourself a favor and keep scrolling, do not apply to this crack head project staffed school.