Full Sail University

Date: Feb 18 2012
Major: Business - Management and Administration (This Major's Salary over time)
Full Sail university is a glorified trade school. Their departments for film and recording arts are amazing. The school prides itself on theses areas and is well know in those areas as well. They have a lot of student success stories, winning grammies and other prestigious awards. But what I really dislike about the school is the fact that they try and link each departments success with there 2 big successful departments. What I mean is that through their marketing plan Full Sail deceives the potential students(Consumers) that all there departments have this same credited success, when in turn for example their Entertainment Business degrees are useless when it come to better your education or career. Full Sail was created out of the passion for the arts and is now nothing more then a profit hungry corporate machine, who's only motive is to increase profits at what ever the cost may be.

I am a graduate of The Full Sail Entertainment business Batchalors program. I had a very good GPA and a perfect "GPS" score. I put my self through hell as a student there going to class 6 days a weeks up to 40 or 50 hrs a week. That is a job not college. As much as college is about learning a curtail part is social life something that is non existent at this school. I loved this school and even told friends and loved ones to consider it; up until about 3 months ago when I started to apply for Law schools. I got rejected from every single law school I applied to. I know it was not my GPA or LSAT score bc both where high. My GPA was a 3.6 and my LSAT was a 159. Grades that should be accepted easily into Law School but not one took me. Not even my safety school who's requirements was a 3.0 and a 148 on the LSAT. After talking to admissions councilors from LSAC(the company that administers the LSAT and help with applying to law school) they told me it was my degree that was the problem. In the eyes of the law schools I had no bachelors degree. The Accreditation is USELESS. So back to school I go next semester to finish my Undergrad degree so I can finally go to law school so I can have the ability to achieve my dream of becoming a Hollywood booking agent. A dream that Full Sail played on to get me to go to there school in the first place. In there words this was the best school for me to do that because they have industry connections who tell them what they want potential future employees to know, so by going here my future employers would love me biased off my background from Full Sail. They never once told me Law school or even grad school for that matter would be a problem, my teachers encouraged me to go to law school; saying that in this industry the only way to become somebody is with further education. The kicker that this school is just like a huge black hole for you to waste two years of your life in and not one credit from this so called school was taken at the school I am going to attend now. So I am back to being a sophomore at age 23 when I thought I would be entering law school next year.

To rap it all up the school is a scam don't consider it for one second unless you want to make music of films. Full Sail knows that the persona of working in the entertainment industry is huge today and they bank on that for there degree programs' marketing plans. Im not saying I didn't learn anything because I did in fact learn a lot but when it comes to the sense of using Full Sail to further your education or career, unless you only want to own your own business this school is the pits.

Out of my graduating class of 18 no one works in the industry except the 3 kids who opened there own record label with daddies money, 7 are in the same spot I'm in(going back to undergrad), and the other 8 have yet to realize this huge scam and are in the masters program at Full Sail thinking they can get jobs when they get out of the school that warrant they pay of a person with a masters degree.

Other dislikes

Classes primarily solely based on your own online research

Teachers? Or are they people who just once worked in the industry and since they can't find a job, teach. Full Sail Teachers don't know how to connect with students as a teacher should.

Lack of social environment due to stress formed by an overwhelming schedule and the regular college stress of doing well.

COST YOU PAY SO MUCH AND ITS USELESS I PAYED ALMOST 55 GRAND BEFOR SPENDING A SINGLE PENNY ON LIVING EXPENSES FOR THE 2 YEARS I LIVED IN ORLANDO.

LOCATION NO RELEVANCE TO ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY. (One would think that a city such as NY or LA or even MIA would better sit a college with such a huge impact on the industry.

My day would be made if i could help someone not to make the same bad decision i made.