For this one I'm just going to screencap the LinkedIn profile.pic.twitter.com/LxCLaklKdO
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For this one I'm just going to screencap the LinkedIn profile.pic.twitter.com/LxCLaklKdO
T was a coach at the local YMCA. When we accepted him almost had to drop out because he was $321 short on an auto loan he needed to pay for to drive for Uber. I loaned it to him as a friend, he paid me back like clockwork. Now he's a hired software engineer.pic.twitter.com/Ph4RinQvvp
L had to drop out of college, and found himself living in government subsidized housing next to a known drug dealer. He had to sell some priceless items to visit his mother who was dying of cancer, and got his interview clothes from goodwill. Not anymore. He now he makes $89k
A is 46 years old and had been a military chaplain for almost 20 years. He found his income practically capped at $50k - couldn't move up. He was pretty concerned about ageism. Two weeks after graduation he was making $85k.
R is the reason we put together our nonprofit fund (http://lambdapaf.org ). He was $400 short on rent his last month in class when the farmer he was laying pipe for fired him after he refused to work weekdays (because of school). We loaned him the $400. Hired for $75k.
S was waiting tables making $400/week during Lambda. She now makes $70k.
J is 37, had two uncompleted degrees, and was feeling pretty stuck in life. He came to Lambda hesitantly, barely opting for us over a community college. Had multiple offers within weeks of graduating.
Here's another where I'll let the picture do all the talkingpic.twitter.com/lncHSGTvqO
D's wife was supporting the family making minimum wage before Lambda. After he was hired post-Lambda they were over 6 figures.pic.twitter.com/LmrdR21lEQ
We have hundreds of stories like this (literally), despite being around for about 18 months. The *only* reason this works is because we have an incentive structure that allows us to hire 50+ people who think and hustle to help these students 24/7. Fin.
As you try to scale up—rather than the current few thousand students per year through very stringent admission—please remember two concepts: selecting on the dependent variable and creaming—which doesn’t mean “stealing” from other schools. There are decades of extensive research!
Almost every pilot like yours has great stories. Yeay. There’s space for a small amount of this. You have dealt with a few thousand at most that you have carefully selected. Even tiny tiny community colleges that nobody’s heard of deals with a lot more students.
I legitimately don’t even understand what your argument is anymore because you’ve so aggressively backpedaled while trying so hard not to admit you made false assumptions. You started out saying the details were “so horrific and predatory it boggles the mind”
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