Complaint Review: Full Sail University

I hold a Bachelor's in Marketing.  Wanting to expand the horizons in hopes of getting a better job I contacted Full Sail University after viewing some online ads.

The representative I spoke to told me that hundreds had taken the MFA program and that I would certainly have a future career in Hollywood upon completion of the program.

Here is the truth... Hollywood could care less about your having an MFA from any insitution.  It doesn't work that way.  

This MFA program will teach you how to structure a screenplay but fails in the writing category.  Yes, you must complete a 120 page thesis project but it doesn't matter how good that project is.  

Save yourself the money and buy some screenwriting books.  There are many to choose from.  These are the same books that this course used.  I could have purchased them all for under $100.  

But you will not read the books through.  You will pick pieces and never really learn anything.

The instructors themselves fall short.  You would expect Full Sail to have instructors that actually worked in the screenwriting industry.  Not so.  Some of my instructors had written screeplays and entered contests... but had sold nothing!!

Now why would you want to learn anything from someone that hasn't walked the walk?  

I finished the MFA program and am heavily in debt.  The job placement program for Alumnis is not a big help.  The jobs are mainly internships and/or low paying jobs.  Not the career I was promised.  

I can't wait for the day when colleges are held responsible for the lies they tell their students.  

MFA Program Truth: You are NOT promised a job upon completion of the program.

MFA Program Truth 2: You will learn nothing that you couldn't learn from reading some good screenwriting books.

MFA Program Truth 3: Your MFA means didly squat to Hollywood... the people the degree is intended to impress.

Save Your Money!!!