I appreciate the reply. I agree that the % model needs improvement to be practical, and that from your research the people on the website have NOT traveled the arc of "newbie coder -> lambda school -> big fancy job" that they seem to be selling.
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I’d encourage you both to talk to our students or look at our reviews. We are literally seeing students lifted out of poverty, and have a nonprofit fund where we pay for living expenses. So forgive me for being defensivehttps://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/06/an-alternative-to-student-loan-debt/563093/ …
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Almost every day we get a job offer for someone who has never made more than $10-20k, and we’re spending millions of dollars training people for no upfront cost, knowing we’ll only get paid back if they’re hired. Show me any other educational institution that does that.
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We also have a $10,000 scholarship for minorities, and train them literally at our cost, but I don’t see that mentioned in any of the threads about how we’re screwing over minorities somehow
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And then I see endless praise of Flatiron, which charges 10% once people are making $35k *in New York City*, so feels just s tiny bit disingenuous
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@KelvinBeachumJr who took the time to actually talk to dozens minority students, or read our reviews, or do anything other than look to find fault that actually isn’t there, and you’ll see why so many people are excited about what we’re doing -
I'm looking forward to seeing the updated website, and hopefully you can express the compassion in your policies without opening those policies up to abuse.
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Will do, thanks!
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Good! I think people are seeing this as a machine that does not have the flexibility you describe. Showing how a person making $50k could pause, reduce, or defer payments if needed might reform the impression that you insist on $8500 out of $50k even if it induces hardship.
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The thing the people in this thread don’t understand is those aren’t things you shout to the world or they’re abused, but we know and work with the financial situation of every student, and again, the only people who have received $50k jobs are in rural areas
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This human element is missing from your website, as is the scholarship afaik. People have been burned a lot, horribly, by legitimate-looking for-profit education. I see how people got the idea they have by calculating from your published terms & materials.
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Fair, will update!
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