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App Academy took a percentage of your first years salary. It felt pretty fair to me because it was free upfront. I don’t like the regular way tuition works wher
by reidjs 4y ago
App Academy took a percentage of your first years salary. It felt pretty fair to me because it was free upfront. I don’t like the regular way tuition works where you pay a ton upfront and they have no incentive to get you a job. App Academy actually had an aligned interest in getting me a high paying job right after their program. Could I have done it without them? Probably, but I didn’t mind paying them back after they helped triple my salary basically. Not sure if they offer this payment method anymore though.
- SantalBlush 4y ago>I don’t like the regular way tuition works where you pay a ton upfront and they have no incentive to get you a job. Agreed. And to be fair, typical four-year colleges were never meant to be vocational training programs. Employers have successfully shifted training costs onto those colleges, and thus onto students and taxpayers. Colleges are meant to be repositories of human knowledge; whether or not that knowledge is useful in the job market is not immediately relevant to them. Students don't understand this, so they go to college thinking a degree is some kind of job certificate. And it's not really their fault for that misunderstanding; the myth is perpetuated across society, and it's very convenient for employers who can now select from a more educated labor pool at no cost to themselves.