The Art Institute of Pittsburgh |
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Consumer reviews about The Art Institute of Pittsburgh |
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Gasman251
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Dec 20, 2011
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This school is a diploma mill
Online college hell as well! My wife is currently attending AiP. She is pursuing a degree in CAD. Let me tell you, I've seen better looking drawings and designs come from my soldiers in the field working on a site sketch compared to some of the "assignments" turned in by some of her fellow "students". The major problem I have is the fact that they have had her financial aid completed and it has been sitting in her account for over a month!!! The last stipend was at the end of October. She has been on the phone with them over and over for the last week and now it's to the point that when she calls, no one will answer and when she does get someone, they say they'll fix it and call back. Needless to say, they never do. Now with Christmas this weekend, we're trying to fight them just for them to release the stipend! Stay away from this school at all costs!!!
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TelemarketingHell
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Dec 27, 2011
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This school is a diploma mill
Yeah, I was also told there were no breaks and that it would allow people to get 4-year degrees in maybe three years. Some of the breaks are really short - like Thanksgiving break is just four days. Everything else, though, is long - summer is 3-4 weeks, Christmas is 3-4 weeks, and spring is 2-3 weeks. Not to mention the occasional snow day (I'm sure everyone still gets charged for the classes they didn't have those days too).
I also love that they charge everyone an activity fee every semester - everyone has to pay for all the stuff that goes on at the school, even if not everyone attends the events. Many of the instructors also require you to buy expensive textbooks and then most of the time you either don't use them or maybe look at them for two minutes. Personally I just went to the library and borrowed a copy when I needed a book for something like Algebra class (why you need this for graphic design is way beyond me - I took Algebra for 3 years in high school). Since, you know, the students are all just rolling in the dough and can afford to blow a few hundred bucks on a book and then never be able to re-sell it because a new edition will come out next semester with one extra sentence in it and THAT will be the required edition for that class.
Believe me, I have been looking for loopholes for years in my loan agreements - anything that could be construed in my favor to let me get this debt forgiven for this atrocious and useless degree. So far, I've found nothing - sadly, you cannot get your student debts forgiven because you attended a crappy school. If I could do it over again, I would have gone to a REAL art school and gotten a far better education at a fraction of the cost of this dump. I'm always hearing about class-action lawsuits against the Art Institutes and people fighting to get their loans forgiven because AI's preferred lender is the shady loan shark Sallie Mae, but I never see any progress. I will gladly be part of such a lawsuit should it ever arise.
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Meluvboys
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Dec 27, 2011
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This school is a diploma mill
MY NAME IS RAGON AND I USED TO BE A MODEL FOR THIS ART SCHOOL. I WAS A MODEL FOR COMICS. EVERYBODY LAFFED THEIR AZZES OFF WHEN I TOOK MY CLOTHES OFF.
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