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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Other  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright I'm in my last month of Full Sail's Film Bachelor's Program. As of this posting, I graduate in 29 days. Full Sail is a money-mill, not a school. To be fair, I know more about filmmaking now than I did when I started, but I can't help but feel that I would have learned more in a better environment if I had gone to a traditional four-year school. Unfortunately this wasn't possible, because since the credits don't transfer, you're on the hook before you realize you've been had, especially in my case, as a veteran with limited GI Bill entitlements: Once I had been to one month of Full Sail, enough of my benefits had been used up that there were not enough left for me to finish a traditional degree, even if I had a means of living while I applied and waited for a start date. The federal government's constant hamstringing of veterans' benefits was partially to blame for this, but Full Sail was the main villain. There is tremendous potential for Full Sail to be a world-class film school, but they are too busy trying to make more and more and more money with a "no dollar left behind" academic policy to make the needed minor adjustments. The quality of the academics is seriously lacking. Nobody pays any attention in lecture, and everyone still passes. I've never studied or gone to office hours as long as I've gone here and I've never received less than a B in any course. It's designed for every student to pass (and thereby continue paying into the school). The teachers are all jaded and depressed. Many of them want to teach more rigorously, but are collared and chained by administrators for whom academics take a back seat to profit margins. Advising Staff are very helpful to prospective students, but once you're enrolled getting even the most basic of help is like pulling teeth, and the Business Office and Financial Aid Department are seemingly staffed by criminals on probation. None of them are the least bit competent, with one or two exceptions, and even the ones who are don't really seem to care or take pride in their work. The receptionists don't know a thing. They are literally the most vacuous, useless placeholders I've ever had the misfortune of having to try and work with. I will say this: If you go to Full Sail, you *can* learn your chosen field. I did it. But it's much more of a struggle than it's worth, especially given the fact that you won't be able to put Full Sail on your resum?, without having to contend with its negative reputation among workers in most fields it represents.I would only recommend Full Sail as a last resort to students who have tried and failed to gain attendance to more reputable schools and who still want to pursue their dreams. Faculty Accessibility: B, Useful Schoolwork: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Apr 30 2012 2nd Year Male -- 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=87001&uid=1915'></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 Computer Science  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright I'm a former student of Full Sail University and like many others was totally excited about attending. The staff was more than helpful to get me in the door and collect my money, but that's where it stopped. After just a few short months in the Web Design & Development program, I realized I had been sold. My advisor was nothing more than a paid salesman and I bought it, hook, line, and sinker! Shame on me!! Upon waking up and realizing I wasn't going to a "real" school but being labeled as a consumer (according to T.A. Associates, the private equity firm that owns Full Sail), I dropped and thought I would move on with my life and learn from my mistake. I was wrong, Full Sail University wasn't done with me. They pulled more student loan money from my bank and I had to contact the bank in order for Full Sail to return it. They then sent me a bill for thousands of dollars in classes I never took. At the end of the day, this is a business masquerading as a school. Matter of fact, the ceo Bill Heaverner, co-owns L.A. Film School in Cali and they are being sued for deceptive practices...hmmmm! Anyway, I've done a ton of research so prospective students don't make the same mistake as me and many others have. Check out my site www.fullsailreviews.net for all the in depth dirt that FS won't tell you Campus Aesthetics: A, Education Quality: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Apr 15 2012 1st Year Male -- Class 2016    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=86608&uid=1915'></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 Business - Management and Administration  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright 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. Preparedness: F, Reputation: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private) Feb 18 2012 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=85402&uid=1915'></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  Prev    Select Page:  1  2  3  4  5  6  7 ... 32    Next

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