That’s what an Admissions manager told me when I expressed my alarm at the decline in enrollment at the AI where I worked, and was worried I was enrolling students that wouldn’t be able to graduate. Long and short I left and the campus where I worked closes on December 31st. I thank God I’m far, far away from there, and I regret having worked there and I regret believing the propaganda and I regret being associated in any way with the fraud that was committed daily there. If you have integrity, get out.
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I worked in admissions for over 2 decades -No rose colored glasses ever-if you ever really cared enough you would know a gamer is a gamer a gamer- I could never talk a animator or a gamer out of the major even when I tried!! Go to a conventions and talk to those kids they live in their own world and have their own out of touch fantasies. No one promised them anything! It is the only thing they like it's their passion so they follow their own dream!
@eac .. are you serious with this post? Wow
I no longer work at an AI school after over a decade. I know it is weird, but I honestly think the type of people they recruited for ADA's at my campus (one still open) were so gullible that they honestly believed everyone could succeed. There was really only one "Donny", (fake name) that was a really a salesman. For years, the ADA's held their heads high thinking they made more money than other staff. I wish I understood their mind set. I could never live my life being that gullible.
@eas I feel the same way. I can never tell if ADAs are giving the students incorrect information or if the students are just unaware of the difficulty in his or her program, but many come in with extremely unrealistic expectations and no matter how many times you recite facts and figures of careers in this field, they refuse to believe it or are shocked.
I think that more likely it is both and sadly there isn’t anything we can do but report the truth and hope each student makes the best choice.
Our SDOA does the same s**t
Dnr, why so angry? Don't tell me, you're an SDOA a DOA or an ADA?
I knew a guy named Mark who went to Cooper Union-a real school-many years back.
One of his first assignments at school was to select a painting of a Reanaisance master of his choice and try to duplicate the subject matter.
Well he went to work and recreated da Vinci's Mona Lisa. When the day came to show it to his instructor the instructor looked at it and said, "there's nothing I can teach you, it's that good.
The next day, full schlorship and all, Mark quit school and went out into the world and made a life for himself being the artist he always was since he was a child.
So my advice is to believe in yourself and do your best. You don't need anyone to legitimize you as a person or an artist.
And just feel lucky that your not one of the souless facillitators that have helped to prop up one of the biggest educational con games to ever be perpetrated on so many just starting out in the world. If they had a conscience they would be ashamed. But know that's asking for too much for most of them to admit. So keep your chin up. You've got some good years ahead of you and remember you've done nothing wrong and deserve all good things in life.
f--- the Art Institutes. They ruined my f---ing life and i hate myself and I wish I was f---ing dead
I have to say as adjunct faculty that I'm glad that I didn't have too much contact with Admissions.
At a certain point, it was hard to tell whether students had created wishful thinking beliefs or if admissions was straight up lying to students. I was always very honest about the difficulties that a career in the arts proposed. Frankly, I wanted my students to do well. It wasn't just about a paycheck. Not only for the selfless martyr portrait of a teacher wanting students to do well but I wanted bragging rights. I taught X student when they were just starting out. Now look at him/her. But a career in the creative arts is tough. It will chew you up and spit you out.
Admissions wanted to sell a rose colored glasses version of the reality.
Believe or Leave... That sounds like the former EDMC CEO when it came to the Dream Center deal.