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OneHeartOneWay · #61 07-18-2011, 10:39 AM

I know this is a "for fun" thread, (and I promise, I'm having fun!) but...

Not all the for-profits are evil. Some, most even, yes, but some serve a needed purpose. If you're daughter is considering a for-profit, it likely means she's not in the demographic to be able to attend the schools you would want her to, and the for-profit route may be her best option. Not all our daughters can go to Beg Ten, SEC, etc. schools. While it varies company to company and campus to campus even, some for-profits are respected in their communities and provide a needed educational avenue for non-traditional students, leading them to careers that otherwise wouldn't be available to them.

Stepping off soapbox, and awaiting the stones that will be thrown!

AnotherKD · #62 07-18-2011, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by OneHeartOneWay

I know this is a "for fun" thread, (and I promise, I'm having fun!) but...

Not all the for-profits are evil. Some, most even, yes, but some serve a needed purpose. If you're daughter is considering a for-profit, it likely means she's not in the demographic to be able to attend the schools you would want her to, and the for-profit route may be her best option. Not all our daughters can go to Beg Ten, SEC, etc. schools. While it varies company to company and campus to campus even, some for-profits are respected in their communities and provide a needed educational avenue for non-traditional students, leading them to careers that otherwise wouldn't be available to them.

Stepping off soapbox, and awaiting the stones that will be thrown!

No stones being thrown, but I would agree with the bolded when talking about technical schools like ITT Tech. But places like Strayer and the others? Not at all. In fact, places like American Military University, a for-profit school geared towards people in the military and the intelligence field, routinely gets bashed by all of the government HR staff and people in the intel/government field that I know.

alum · #63 07-18-2011, 11:00 AM

^^I would agree.

There are plenty of not-for-profit schools that offer evening, weekend, accelerated, online, and hybrid programs as well offering the traditional daytime 3x per week/16 week semesters. I have worked in military education at multiple installations over the years. The schools that are on these bases each have a traditional brick-and-mortar main campus in addition to the satellite campuses.

aj12291 · #64 07-18-2011, 11:18 AM

I'm going to agree with the above post

But "hell no"'s for my future children: Southern Cal or Michigan... and I would refuse to pay if he/she decided to go to Wooster...

AnotherKD · #65 07-18-2011, 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by aj12291

I'm going to agree with the above post

But "hell no"'s for my future children: Southern Cal or Michigan... and I would refuse to pay if he/she decided to go to Wooster...

I have a shirt with an outline of the USA without Michigan included, with the caption "The Way It Should Be".

Hehehe

DrPhil · #66 07-18-2011, 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by AnotherKD

No stones being thrown, but I would agree with the bolded when talking about technical schools like ITT Tech.

Thanks for reminding me:

Over my dead body will my daughter or son attend a for-profit, including technical schools like ITT Tech and any other for-profit school, prior to getting a bachelor's degree elsewhere.

I am absolutely positively utterly amused by this thread.

AnotherKD · #67 07-18-2011, 12:16 PM

While I would ideally agree with you, my brother-in-law attended ITT in lieu of getting a bachelor's degree- he lives in the middle of nowhere in WV and getting a degree in a trade was a great move for him. He was never that great of a traditional student, but now he has a technical job that is affording him the opportunities to have a steady job and a pretty good income for that area. But that is just one person's experience and I am sure that it would differ depending on where one is from and their background or what they want to eventually do.

DrPhil · #68 07-18-2011, 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by AnotherKD

While I would ideally agree with you, my brother-in-law attended ITT in lieu of getting a bachelor's degree- he lives in the middle of nowhere in WV and getting a degree in a trade was a great move for him. He was never that great of a traditional student, but now he has a technical job that is affording him the opportunities to have a steady job and a pretty good income for that area. But that is just one person's experience and I am sure that it would differ depending on where one is from and their background or what they want to eventually do.

Over my dead body would he be my son.

I shall start replying to everyone's posts and tell them how awesome all of the schools that they listed are. Maybe they are your school's sports rivals but they have kickass programs in (insert major) that aren't offered at nearby colleges and universities. LOL. I believe that children are the future.

GTAlphaPhi · #69 07-18-2011, 12:45 PM

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Originally Posted by violetpretty

Anywhere that is without argument considered the South.

Absolutely no exceptions for the likes of Georgia Tech

, Emory, UNC, Duke, UVA, W&M, Vanderbilt, SCAD (if she's artistic), Tulane, etc.?

Munchkin03 · #70 07-18-2011, 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by DrPhil

Over my dead body would he be my son.

I shall start replying to everyone's posts and tell them how awesome all of the schools that they listed are. Maybe they are your school's sports rivals but they have kickass programs in (insert major) that aren't offered at nearby colleges and universities. LOL. I believe that children are the future.

This thread is pretty funny...it's all about football rivalries or political leanings and not quality of education (except to say that Ivy League schools are overrated, which is hilarious).

I'll get into this and include "directional" colleges.

OneHeartOneWay · #71 07-18-2011, 01:15 PM

Over my dead body will by daughter attend a school without a Sigma Kappa chapter...okay, just joking (kind of). But seriously over my dead body for any school that doesn't have Greek Life.

DrPhil · #72 07-18-2011, 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Munchkin03

This thread is pretty funny...it's all about football rivalries or political leanings and not quality of education (except to say that Ivy League schools are overrated, which is hilarious).

My rants about for-profits and "Bob Jones University" were about quality of bachelor's degree education (despite how awesome many of the professors and students are at these schools).

My rant about school names wasn't about quality of education. Just names.

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Originally Posted by Munchkin03

I'll get into this and include "directional" colleges.

Please explain what those are.

I Googled "directional college" and University of Phoenix was the advertisement. I can't get away from University of Phoenix. LOL.

IrishLake · #73 07-18-2011, 01:18 PM

"Teach them well and let them lead the way......"

lalalalalalalalala

dekeguy · #74 07-18-2011, 01:19 PM

Any future kids of mine would be free to choose any Jesuit University, any academically solid state or private university, Oxford, Cambridge, or West Point. I might consider disowning any kid of mine who wanted to attend the Air Farce Academy. I have always viewed the USAF as the best alternative to military service.

nittanygirl · #75 07-18-2011, 01:23 PM

Oh I definitely agree with the no technical school thing unless they are going for something that is actually a tech school thing like drafting or machinery.

Boyfriend when to a technical school and they haven't done squat for him.
And I have other friends at the same school as well, that have had to work a lot harder to find a job bc of it.
No way.