im plannin on enrolling at the art institute of salt lake in july but i want to know if im makin a right choice or is it another scam? Ive looked up sites and been getting mixed results some people have no problems wit them others have dropped out cuz of them. i dont want to make the wrong choice and fall into debit wit them....any suggestions?Is the art institute of salt lake a scam?
If its one of the Art Institutes run by EDMC (all of them that use the
AI logo), avoid them like a plague. They're not an art school
employers take seriously. They're open enrollment, they take ANYONE.
They just want the financial aid.
If you ask me, they're an elaborate corporate scam to funnel as many
Government Pell grants and guaranteed loans out of students as they
can and leave the students with the bill.
They're like McDonald's of Art "Colleges". They're a chain that is
popping up everywhere. They buy out dying schools, rename them, keep
the accreditation.
They may seem like they would be good, but it is all smoke and
mirrors. Pretty building with pretty computers. Meanwhile, it will
just ruin your life.
The market demand they say they're meeting is not the demand of the
Job market, its the demand of the students. Students that graduated AI
are struggling to get jobs and have over more than $50,000+ or
$90,000+ in debt depending on what degree they went for. Degrees that
are worthless in the job market.
Basically, AI is a degree mill. They use bloated success stats and
circle logic to back them up.
They count students working at Toys R Us as in the field. Avoid them
if you want to actually have a decent future.
If you really want to pursue your passion, go to a community college,
study fine art, and then transfer into a state school. It will be
cheaper and the money you save you can buy your own equipment and
STILL have money left over for a better future.
Their job leads are bogus, they go to Monster, Craigslist, and career
builder just like everyone else. Their top employer is HOME DEPOT
(Check their own website) and I guarantee none of those are art jobs.
Don't make the same mistake my friends and I did. We'll be paying for
it for the rest of our lives.
If you go with AI you'll be folding clothes at Target or hawking video
games at Toys R Us for $8.25 an hour and struggling to pay $90,000+
with bill collectors haunting your every waking moment for the REST OF
YOUR LIFE with no way to stop them because there is no bankruptcy
protection on Student loans.
Please please please make sure you check out these news articles and
accounts from students who got burned by AI. They're destroying more
lives than helping. The government is TRYING to cut the For-profit
colleges off the aid because the students are getting burned but these
schools are throwing around their money to pretend they're making
things better.
I would look around. No there not a scam but they are not the best either. It is like one of those art schools you get into for drawing the turtle and sending it back to them? Everyone can be an artist to them.
If you really want to go to school and don't want to go into MONSTER debt. Try a community college. It is cheap, they usually have a great art department. You can get a two year degree and transfer to a major college after graduation. You will learn traditional and modern techniques on the community level. Just make sure you major is ART not Liberal Arts. Liberal Arts is for the kids who don't know what they want to do Fine Art is well, Fine Art.
Good Luck!!Is the art institute of salt lake a scam?
yes
