So people are seriously

[Blarg]

i before e grammar is weird

[Deejay]

Excuse me, i before e motherfucker, that's elementary level shit, step your game up.

Also no -- they won't. Maybe if they attend top level schools, but those cost money too. If you're going to some shitty state school, you might not have a lot to pay back but good luck finding work.

Though at the moment, dosimetry is pretty hot and there's decent places to study that don't cost an arm and a leg.

What shitty state schools are you talking about? You'll be able to find work a lot easier from a larger school than you would from a private/for profit. That's a simple fact. As a Florida resident, I can even get my AA from a community college for 2 years and automatically transfer into any state school I wanted, like UCF, FAU, FSU, UF, etc..(and spend maybe 1/10th of what I would at a private school) Not to mention credits from a freaking commuity college will transfer and get you into way more graduate programs or undergraduate programs than full sail credits would.

I'm not saying that full sail is shit, but to argue it's practicality vs. traditional education is pretty lol

[Chun Liroy]

All I know is I'm payin fat stacks and I expect to be makin fat stacks. Also, I'm a decently smart dude.

[Cleverness]

That's pretty much what I did when I went back to college at 20. Went to Borough of Manhattan Community College where the tuition was so low that TAP + Pell was giving me extra money to go to school each semester, then got my Associates and transferred. If you just want a degree to have a degree then it'd be the better alternative than giving it to the bullshit institutions. If you moved back to NYC and are still registered as a NY state resident the CUNY system is the shit.

[Sera]

I'm not saying that full sail is shit, but to argue it's practicality vs. traditional education is pretty lol

I was harking back to the subjects mentioned: medicine, business, law. For that shit you gotta be going somewhere good: harvard etc, and those places are not cheap.
I wasn't arguing it against state schools in general though, I was saying that education is a racket these days either way, public or private. They have a GD program and that's what he wanted. No one around here did. Again though, that's an industry where your contacts get you further than anything else.

[Sera]

If you moved back to NYC and are still registered as a NY state resident the CUNY system is the shit.

We tried CUNY (I actually went there too before, to Hunter, and I loved it) but there were some weird issues with GPA requirements that they couldn't get sorted out if he met them or not (he stopped going to college his first semester when he was much younger because of family stuff.) They couldn't decide if his GPA "counted" or not even though he withdrew before the cutoff date. It was bullshit and no one seemed to know how to sort it out, so he went elsewhere.

[Cleverness]

If it's just 1 semester that isn't that big of a deal really

[Sera]

There are for-profit places that charge 50k for a 2 yr Nursing/other assorted AAS, and yeah, THAT is definitely robbery. I'll agree with that.

[Sera]

If it's just 1 semester that isn't that big of a deal really

Tell that to them. Trust me, we fought with that shit daily for 4 months before finally just saying fuck it.

[Sera]

Keep in mind my goal is to get my MSN in nursing informatics and doctorate in nursing practice, so i've pretty much gotten over the fear of student loans

lol

[Kuya]

Also, I'm a decently smart dude.

[Cleverness]

I mean its not a big deal if he doesn't get it counted if its just 1 semesters worth of classes. When they took my few credits when I transferred over I don't think they even counted it towards my GPA, it just counted towards my total credits needed to graduate. Especially when a CC is most likely going to be cheaper than Full Sail per semester and, in CC in the CUNY systems case at least, has 2 summer sessions so he can blow through it quickly.

[Ryko]

Yeah I attempted to apply to BMCC, Medgar Evers, and Hunter, and each time they kept acting iffy on my GPA. They all said I needed to transfer, though I didn't have any credits or any grades. When I said I was just going to enroll as a new student, they told me I couldn't and if I tried, that I would be banned from going to CUNY.

[Kuya]

Why banned?

[Ryko]

They said applying as a new student when I went to another school whatsoever would count as defrauding the CUNY system.

[Sera]

I mean its not a big deal if he doesn't get it counted if its just 1 semesters worth of classes. When they took my few credits when I transferred over I don't think they even counted it towards my GPA, it just counted towards my total credits needed to graduate. Especially when a CC is most likely going to be cheaper than Full Sail per semester and, in CC in the CUNY systems case at least, has 2 summer sessions so he can blow through it quickly.

Nah you're misunderstanding. They wouldn't let him ENTER -- wouldn't take him as a new student because he'd been enrolled at a college before, but wouldn't take him as a transfer (even without transferring any credits) because he didn't have a GPA technically, which in their eyes made it technically zero. Does that paint a better picture for you?

[Cleverness]

Ok I thought it was an issue of them not wanting to count his old classes towards his GPA, NEVERMIND. That shit is bananas then.

[Ryko]

Tried applying for about two years.

[Chun Liroy]

I have a 3.3, that's "decent" :/

[Sera]

We called CUNY every day for like 4 months to try to get it sorted out. No one seemed to "know" what the policy actually meant with regard to his situation (which was apparently more unique than we anticipated, though it seems like it wouldn't be).

It would appear that in order to work in school administration, you must also be legally retarded.

Same goes for human resources, those people are goddamn useless.