“Who are the 99 percent?,” Ezra Klein, The Washington Post (via hold-a-wolfs-ears)

The school I attended is being sued by the government for fraud. This isn’t some small-time hack school. It’s the Art Institute, a chain of for-profit colleges with real accreditation and campuses all across the country. They knowingly loaned huge amounts of money to low-income students who they knew could never afford to pay it back. They kept students who they knew didn’t have the skills to get proper job placement in their chosen field. And they happily gobbled up the federal loan money and left these students to the wolves, such as Sallie Mae, who is faced with a class-action lawsuit. They make a profit when students default on their loans.

They didn’t just lie to us. They concocted a scheme to get rich off of our misery. They profit by destroying our lives.

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Reblogging because I have a friend who went to the Art Institute and this is happening to her right now.

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Ho-lee-crap…I had the choice to go to the Art Institute but decided not to when they harassed me for months. No joke, they called all hours of the day, called my high school, anywhere they could get the phone number to. They were worse than military recruiters, and they honestly scared me.

Now I’m extra glad I didn’t go.

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I went to the Art Institute.

I am so fucked.

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I saw an Art Institute flyer of student work once that had someone’s poorly-photoshopped drawing of their Sonic fan character fictional metal band Apocalypse. It was funny then, but it really goes to show the kind of work they’ll give the okie-doke just to mindlessly shuffle more students through to maximize profits.

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Reblogging because this has recently become a very real thing for Casey. We’d only known the figure for his bank loans up until two days ago. Though his loan-fees are not nearly as high as those of students who have completed full multi-year courses (he dropped from MCAD after a year, it just wasn’t the right path), it is still extremely disheartening to see that what could have been covered in six months, is now something that will have to be repaid for four or five years after interest, at its absolute best.

Unless we somehow manage to generate a substantial amount of cash during that time, that is.

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Haha

Ohhh, the Art Institute.

At the Portfolio Panel I hosted at RF, I started it out by asking two things:

“Who here is interested in producing a portfolio for employment or school?”

and those who raised hands to the school query, I continued as such:

“How many of you are considering going to the Art Institute? … That many? Well, don’t. It’s a certificate mill. Don’t bother getting an education at an institution that heavily advertises itself and only offers condolence prize certification. You need an accredited paper/diploma to the tune of a bachelors degree. Unless you are doing trades or apprenticeships, don’t even fucking bother with colleges that only give you a certificate.”

There are schools and then there are businesses. The Art Institute and the Art Academy are businesses and you are the profit margin.

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Ugh, the biggest mistake I have ever made in my entire life was going to this school. What a joke.

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DO NOT GO TO THE ART INSTITUTE

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Oh my gosh my older brother is attending the Art Institute D: Fuuuuuccccckkkkk

Yep I’m never going there.

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not to point fingers….but yeah.

i’m another AI drop-out, cause i was caught in a never ending cycle of “you just need this class to graduate, but all those other classes you took are now not worth credits, so you have to take more classes to meet the pre-req”.

i had one more quarter left “on paper”, while in reality it wuld have equalled another year of them siphoning money.