DesaiAshu

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by DesaiAshu 7y ago
There's a 2.5x cap, so max is $175k. Our site should say $95k average not $195k, which page are you seeing $195k?
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by DesaiAshu 7y ago
Your perspective highlights one of the biggest false choices of traditional education - that you can either get a well rounded education or learn vocational skills (but not both). 124 units that make up an accredited bachelors degree is a L
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by DesaiAshu 7y ago
"Project-based learning isn't new." This! Research has shown it's more effective for 50 years or so, but few educational environments have adopted it (except for Montessori schools, some charter schools, and new age priv
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by DesaiAshu 7y ago
We actually have a lot of transfers from community colleges, and they're eligible to graduate faster / reduce their tuition burden. I fully agree that the 2 years of community college + 2 years of UC is one of the most cost effect
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by DesaiAshu 7y ago
Nice to hear from you and thanks for the feedback. I'll share this with our Dean and instructional team as they consider more specializations to add!
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by DesaiAshu 7y ago
We're not considering an online only program, though we are making more and more of our resources available online for free. For a full degree program - given that it takes 2-2.5 years of full time work to complete - it's not supe
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by DesaiAshu 7y ago
I've been helping PM the AMA on our side. We've had multiple team members support answering the questions but I explicitly asked people not to ask questions. We have a lot of students and alumni who see these posts and want to be
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by DesaiAshu 7y ago
We're starting to build out more math and deeper on algorithms, particularly for people who want to go the AI/ML route or grad school. Currently if you're keen on grad school it's probably better to go to a well ranked r
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by DesaiAshu 7y ago
"Any new institution, regardless of merit, would face the same challenge" This! It's proving to be a LOT harder to build reputation in this world than it is for most startups. Higher Ed brands are societally entrenched in a w
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by DesaiAshu 7y ago
Based on reputation it's tough for us to compete for students who are considering MIT, Stanford, or Ivy's. We have a few students who transfer from those schools because they want a more hands on education, but it's not the n
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by DesaiAshu 7y ago
WASC (which accredits Stanford, UC Berkeley, etc) approved the 2 and 2.5 year degree plans totaling 124 credit hours. It's do-able, just took some creative problem solving :) We don't have a traditional summer break, so that'
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by DesaiAshu 7y ago
A few things to clarify here: 1. The degree is granted by a non-profit institution, Dominican University. The for-profit Public Benefit Corporation Make School, is currently providing services to the non-profit institution to run the progra
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I dropped out of MIT and started a new college in San Francisco, AMA(reddit.com)
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Make School (YC W12) is hiring a growth marketer to help scale our college(jobs.lever.co)
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Make School (YC W12) Is Hiring a Senior Front End Engineer (GraphQL / Apollo)(jobs.lever.co)
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Portfolios of top Make School students looking for jobs/internships(makeschool.com)
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College Admissions Is a Regressive Tax on Low-Income Students(medium.com)
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Make School (YC W12) raises $15M to build a modern university(medium.com)
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Munchery swindled a group of women and minority owned companies out of over $50k(medium.com)
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Make School (YC W12) Is Hiring a Head of Marketing and Admissions
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The Make School Vision: Building a blueprint for a new model of higher ed(makeschool.com)
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by DesaiAshu 8y ago
You're right that our privacy policy is generic / written for web services - that policy applies to our website rather than our student data. FERPA laws govern student data, so those are definitely better protected than the generi
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by DesaiAshu 8y ago
I hear your point. To avoid getting into trouble I'll keep the framing as better than a full tuition scholarship (rather than full ride). It's already a good deal so no need to take risks with marketing :) If you're curious,
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by DesaiAshu 8y ago
Thanks for the positive feedback :) We're not as cheap as online Udemy courses due to high touch instruction at a physical campus. Though we are substantially undercutting traditional bachelor's degrees on cost. Students will on a
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Building a blueprint for a new model of higher education(makeschool.com)
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Make School is accepting applications for BS in Applied Computer Science degree(medium.com)
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Make School Is Hiring a Senior Front-End Engineer(jobs.lever.co)
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Make School (YC W12) Is Hiring Web, Data Science, and iOS Instructors
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Make School (YC W12) Is Hiring Web, Data Science, and iOS Instructors(jobs.lever.co)
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Make School is hiring a Dean to run our college
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