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[Reposting for clear formatting. This post is worth reading. For reference to the original poster, don't try to indent your paragraphs, it makes Hacker News think you're trying to post a code snippet.] Her lawsuit may not be legitimate, (I have little idea what Monroe college is and who owns it.) but if it is a for-profit college, then I for one enjoy seeing SOMEONE bring some kind of lawsuit upon one of these schools. Their business is unethical, their priority is profit not education. When i was born my father started putting money away in tax-free Mutual Funds. With some help of the 90's boom, I had a nice college fund. My father went to Vietnam instead of college, and my mother... well she's a nice lady. So when i graduated my only encouragement from them was to go to college, they had no advice to give me as it was new territory for them. Being a young naive geek I saw the commercials for going to school for game development, and I knew that was the greatest thing ever. My parents knew I was going to school, and that was all they cared about. Fast forward a year of drama, and I was starting an internship for Activision. While there, I quickly realized game companies have no interest in hiring people from these programs for anything other then testing positions. Admittedly with good reason, I remember having one good professor, and about four pretty shady professors. The decisions made at these places are profit driven. Even the accreditation is a facade. The accreditation is from another child company owned by the same corporation that owns the school. After the internship, I started looking for jobs at a help desk. I managed to land one pretty quickly, as I had some pretty good experience working at a cable station when I was in high school. What surprised me was I was now working full time with fellow graduates from my school! This was enough to completely convince me to quit the program altogether, and start looking around. The thing about an 18 year old making 40k is he doesn't understand just how little that is (even in Minnesota) after a few months I gave up the search, and started searching for a better job instead. At this point in time companies didn't care what kind of experience you had, I taught myself to program when I was twelve, and I taught myself C# since I was working nights at the help desk (and had lots of free time) It took about a month before I found a position working in a development lab for a fortune 500 company. When I started I was building servers, and before I left I was writing software to build servers. The experience I gained, and the technologies I worked with opened the door of possibilities wide open. I also got a significant pay raise twice. After a year and a half (thats two years since I left school) I had this vision of people my age graduating in 2 more years, then in another 3 or 4 years getting my level of experience. It might take 5 years but soon, I won't be the hotshot that I thought I was. So I decided to go back to school, this time I chose a Community College since it worked well with my full time schedule and was inexpensive, which was important since I was paying for it all myself (did i mention that a year at the for-profit school ate ALL my college money that my dad spent 18 years saving) The difference between the two schools was night and day. What value! my professors were truly professional, and knowledgeable on their subjects. The students were not hood rats, and did not interfere with classes. They spoke proper English, and had actual goals. Unfortunatley I decided to move from Minnesota to Boston after two Semesters because I was offered a great job (and the environment at the fortune 500 was getting extremely depressing) I'm happy here, I make 70k now which makes my father very happy but It's not the best I can do. My friends from school graduated about 8 months ago, and the last I talked to them not a single one has a job which doesn't matter to the school since it has made at least 700k from their tuition not including the 800k from the students in the class when i first started