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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Music - Performance  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Super Brilliant I submitted my application with my demo CD and thought I was about to enter this awesome school full of virtuosos. As it turned out the school accepts anyone with enough money to pay tuition regardless if they can even make a demo to send in. I learned a lot only because I wanted to, but I could have learned the same things by taking guitar lessons! The only real thing that I gained from MI was the confidence of being on stage and improvising off the top of my head, which I am damn sure I could have gained on my own had I known beforehand the school would be filled with a bunch of little kids who are too scared to play solos during their live playing workshops. If you want to go to this school and you think you'll be like whatever famous person they say went to the school you are sorely mistaken. I can't tell you how many kids dropped out because they were too scared to play guitar in front of the class! I was already really really good and I didn't know it until I went to this school full of pathetic guitar players. And they will pass just about anyone. About 80% of the GIT graduates make you want to plug your ears when they play guitar. I don't know what they are going to do, and If they are seriously teaching guitar lessons god help us all for the next generation of guitar players is really going to suck. Also, the teaching staff is SEVERELY inbred. What I mean is that almost all of the teachers are graduates from the same school! If you cant understand how bad that is, look a the teaching staff of any major university and they are never more than 10% inbred where Musician's Institute is about %75 inbred. Its sad that the best jobs the graduates can ask for is a job at the school they just graduated from. Once again, dont be scared if you think you suck at guitar, pretty much everyone there does. Preparedness: B+, Reputation: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private) May 27 2009 Alumnus Male -- Class 2000   Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=60645&uid=1743'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Music - Performance  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright Alot of these reviews are really up and down. I guess everyone will have a different experience and even at a point where I had a super difficult experience with someone at the school I still made the best of it. My attitude was that I spent ALOT of $$ to come here and I wasn't about to mess it up because of some idiot..so I didn't. He's the arrogant one. This school is not for everyone I mean after a few weeks of each quarter students would drop out like flies!! But some people can't deal and some people can. This school is definiteley a what you put in it is what you get out of it. The classes were small and more focused and yea the grades are somewhat easy to get but if you are serious you work your ass off anyway because ultimately its not the grade primarily. You are there to be better at your instrument and rule period! I got a lot of information way more than I could have practically handled but today I still find the course folders useful and I went to this school and not any other because it had more up to date styles of music and that meant I could really play the hell out of Rock and Metal all I wanted!! Or even funk. There are a million of other schools that you can do music in but then you have to settle for jazz, they don't have metal at all. So its about time there is something out there for everyone. Who has time for a relationship anyway..there is so much to do. Nightlife I found my classmates my closest friends even to this day whether they live in Hollyweird or Sweden or Switzerland. I still keep in touch with them all. IF its one thing I missed is having that sense of community with my fellow classmates. Last I love having my alumni pass. I'd rather go to M.I to rehearse every weekend for six hrs a day than go to a studio and pay 10-15 dollars an hr for the same. University Resource Use: A-, Education Quality: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Nov 11 2008 2nd Year Female -- Class 2012    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=55513&uid=1743'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Music - Performance  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright My experience has been really great. I am a more talented,confident and driven female guitarist. If there was any advice I could give. It would be to go out and do it NOW. Don't wait too long. Go for your dream.. Also be realistic. Don't think about that you want to do this to be a rockstar,because there are a million others like you here. Its L.A. and its not easy, be prepared to work hard and harder for what you love to do. I would have started at alot younger age but when I wanted to go I didn't know ANY girls who wanted to go and my parents were clueless of my aspirations. I ended up going to a Motorcycle Mechanics Institute first before landing in L.A. to pursue my aspirations as a guitarist. Starting Job: guitarist, Preparedness: A, Reputation: B+ Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private) Nov 11 2008 Alumna Female -- Class 2000   Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=55512&uid=1743'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Music - Performance  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Super Brilliant If you take a look at the reviews, they are all over the place. That is because everyone has a different experience when they come to any school. First off, I was a bit older than most of the students when I came there, so I was able to understand their actions, emotions, and words moreso than if I were 20 or so, like most of the students. I was still in the "age range" to be able to relate to the "kids," and I had already completed a Bachelor's at a major university before I attended. One more thing is that I had been playing for many years, and just wanted to learn what I could from whomever I could while I was there, which is definitely the way to approach MI. If you feel that the students and faculty will help you find your direction while you are there, you are mistaken. You will not receive any sort of assistance from the students, faculty, or department heads, really, even if you ask for it, so you're 100 percent on your own at this school. This was not my experience at the university I attended; there, the students were basically coddled, but, then again, it's where a ton of celebrities and politicians' kids attend, so you could imagine the difference (at MI, I didn't get the impression that anyone was from that kind of background, even if they were). Also, perhaps black students should know that they aren't treated very well at this place; if you go into the bathroom, you will see Nazi swastikas and "Skrewdriver" written on the bathroom walls, and if you don't know that band, they are the flagship heavy metal band of the KKK and the National Skinhead Movement. I was familiar with it because I grew up in an all-Irish area and all the kids loved the band. This was in grade school, meaning that you can now tell what the mental capacity of most of the students is. That is not to say that there aren't some great folks there, but I'd say most of them are older teachers (the student population is not the best, musically, but if you are any good, you will meet those who are "better than most" in the student body right away). If you want to learn jazz, you can, but I'd say the school is more steeped in the hard rock and metal ethos, which is very limiting for players who may want to study other kinds of music, like jazz, blues, country, and other genres. All in all, MI is definitely not a "conservatory," but you can learn a great deal that you never thought you would in a short amount of time, so the trade off might be expensive but it is probably worth it. Final coda: I went to a Renaissance Faire, wearing the MI shirt, and a total stranger saw it and said "good investment." I thought he was talking about the beer in my hand but, alas, that wasn't what he was referring to. One thing: there isn't any "social life" to speak of. Go to an actual university for that, I guess, because I was unable to really forge out any relationships with anyone at all, dating or otherwise. That was unfortunate, because that wasn't my experience at the university, and the student body is diverse enough that there is something for everyone. However, I wouldn't come to MI expecting to find a girlfriend, that's for sure, even though, during the orientation, one of the speakers will tell you about meeting his wife there. Also, during the orientation, someone was asking about what happens if the students are "arrested," so that should also say something significant (this person, I learned later, was in my program and was in and out of jail the whole time, missing most of the term). Innovation: A, Social Life: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Apr 22 2008 1st Year Male -- Class 2007    Forward  Blog it! 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