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Originally Posted by DrPhil

Bump because I keep seeing commercials for for-profit and nontraditional schools, including recently founded schools. There's a really commercial out now with 4 people walking past a crowd and the voice says something silly like "I don't want to be lectured to, I want control of my education."

I need people to be realistic and honest about what they expect to get out of this educational experience. Check the accreditation, check who is overseeing this school's programs, and realize that everything with "college" or "university" in it is not a REAL college or university.

This. This includes the technical school type for-profits that aren't online like National College, Fortis College, etc. (Google them, I think they're local but I'm sure there's a similar kind of thing everywhere.)

They call it college, but it's not. And you're surprised when employers give your "degree" the side eye because the place you got it from is non-accredited and the credit doesn't transfer to any other legitimate school because of it.

My fave thing is when people try to be school snobs with their for-profit degrees.

Ex: Looking down on people because they went to a state university like Kent or Akron, but your degree is from Kaplan?

Other personal fave, for-profit film/art schools like the NY Film Academy. There are ads for it (their MFA programs) all over my campus and I'm pretty sure it's not legit.