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It doesn't apply for film school, but there are plenty of scam law schools that sell students on the prospect of massive future earnings my juking the stats. Fo
by dundarious 5y ago
It doesn't apply for film school, but there are plenty of scam law schools that sell students on the prospect of massive future earnings my juking the stats. For example, it's common to say that some high percentage of past students are employed after graduation, but it's often an outright lie or the numbers are padded by the university giving low-wage sham jobs to most graduates.
Of course, you _can_ find information and protect yourself from even these scams _most_ of the time, but I don't think the "just do your due diligence" argument holds enough of the time to dismiss the general argument being made, even if it applies to specific cases.
- WalterBright 5y agoIf you can show me that simple google searches won't show reasonably correct information, that would be a good point. Besides, it seems weird that the senior class would never notice that the class that graduated just ahead of them is working at the car wash?
- dundarious 5y agoA bit late to find out in year n-1 of an n year program.
- WalterBright 5y agoYa don't think they'd tell the n-2 year students? Do they have a conspiracy of silence? Do they have no friends from other years?
- dundarious 5y agoSo everybody should drop out after they first start to hear second hand info about it? And it’s their fault if they don’t or if they do but they’re on the tail end of the grapevine so it takes a few years? And that’s the system working justly? If you imagine the uncertainty and justifiable inertia involved in a realistic scenario, I don’t see how you can dismiss arguments that it’s not necessarily just the fault of kids for not doing due diligence.
- WalterBright 5y ago> So everybody should drop out after they first start to hear second hand info about it? Choices are: 1. continue, rack up $300,000 debt with no way to pay it off 2. change majors to something that pays Which do you think is the sensible decision? > just the fault of kids You're infantilizing them. They are adults. They can vote. They can drive cars. They can sign contracts. They can join the military and command others. They go to the big boy prison if they commit crimes. They can consult with their parents or anyone they respect. They can marry. They can have gender reassignment surgery. They can use google. Just like you and I can. They're not victims. Do you really believe they spent 6 years studying a major and had no clue what the career prospects were? I don't.
- dundarious 5y agoMy example was still for a law school. You've gone back to film school again.