Full Sail (simple question)

[melo]

I go to fullsail right now and am in the recording arts degree and you learn alot and it is worth the price you pay... fullsail is well known throughout the industry for what they do, but it is all about who you know and making oppurtunities for yourself as someone posted earlier you will be someones biatch when you first get out but you would do that around another job because you would get paid very little if anything at all most interns work 3 or 4 days a week for about 4-8 hours a day the more you give the easier to move up but dont expect to go to any school for recording arts and expect to come out making big bucks youll make enough to live off of and you have to take your time and move up... if you go to a 4 year school for recording arts everyone that starts fullsail 3 years ahead of you will be making there way in the industry and if you look at living expenses and everything else fullsail isnt much more than a 4 year university is...so i hoped i helped you with your question

[melo]

I go to fullsail right now and am in the recording arts degree and you learn alot and it is worth the price you pay... fullsail is well known throughout the industry for what they do, but it is all about who you know and making oppurtunities for yourself as someone posted earlier you will be someones biatch when you first get out but you would do that around another job because you would get paid very little if anything at all most interns work 3 or 4 days a week for about 4-8 hours a day the more you give the easier to move up but dont expect to go to any school for recording arts and expect to come out making big bucks youll make enough to live off of and you have to take your time and move up... if you go to a 4 year school for recording arts everyone that starts fullsail 3 years ahead of you will be making there way in the industry and if you look at living expenses and everything else fullsail isnt much more than a 4 year university is...so i hoped i helped you with your question

[Nemesys]

re: Full Sail recording school.

Well...... at the risk of stirring the honeypot (I have no idea what that means, but I guess I made up a new expression), I feel obliged to offer this counteropinion. Take it with the proverbial grain of salt. All sides have presented their opinion, so there should always be a counteropinion to balance things out because life aint always peaches and cream.

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Putting the actual "educational quality" of Full Sail aside, any student should have serious reservations about going to that school strictly on ethical grounds for their role in attempting to get a web site shut down because former students were posting opinions about their educational experiences there.

Any school that sleazy is not worthy of your money.... in my humble opinion.

The following web site:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://...lsailsucks.com

is an archive of the former www.fullsailsucks.com web site which went out of business... Thankfully its contents got archived at this site, and I suggest anyone who wants to go there puruse these archives for awhile to make your own more informed decision.

http://web.archive.org/web/200306220...sailsucks.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/200306220...sailsucks.com/
...etc.. etc...

[melo]

But that site is people who are like some kids at fullsail now they most likeley had a bad experience because they dont have common since, arent cut out for this industry, or they could just be like the people who miss as much time as they can without failing for attendance. Just because they graduated from this school doesnt mean they obtained everyhting they should have, So with that being said.... fullsail might not be for you but at the same time just because somebody else didnt enjoy it doesnt mean that they should bash the school when ultimately the school didnt do wrong its the person for everyone person that doesnt like fullsail there are 50 that loved it

[CasJams]

While I realize that it is very possible to pursue a career in the recording industry without any kind of schooling in audio, I think that if you do decide to attend an audio program, it should be at a four-year accredited school as opposed to a program like Full Sail. I will be graduating from Columbia College Chicago this spring (audio recording) and I have absolutly no regrets about spending the last few years at this school. Here, in addition to all the hands on stuff in the truely awsome facilities, you are able to get deep inside audio theory and practice. The instructors all teach part time and work in the industry full time so learning from their experiences is great. I have been able to set up two internships (one last summer, one starting in a week) and while I think they took me on more for my personality and references than my education, I think it will be my strong knowledge of audio I gained from Columbia that will ultimately put me ahead of the competition when trying to make the jump to paying gigs. In other words, I'm not here for the BA (which as others noted, is a good fallback), I'm here to get the most out of an education in audio in order to compete in this over-saturated field.

[Nemesys]

I will be graduating from Columbia College Chicago this spring (audio recording) and I have absolutly no regrets about spending the last few years at this school. Here, in addition to all the hands on stuff in the truely awsome facilities, you are able to get deep inside audio theory and practice.

Most trade colleges definately suck insofar as their lack of depth in curriculum, a fact they gloss over in their slick high budget advertisements (take ITT-Tech for example not to mention the trade audio schools).... but one advantage that they do have is in terms of facilities and gear. These trade schools often sink their limited budget into buying top of the line equipment which is all part of the fishing hook to draw prospective students in who will be mesmorized by all the technical amenities offered.

On the otherhand, traditional colleges have a more comprehensive curriculum, but their technical facilities leave something to be desired. Columbia College of Sound definately seems to have a nice program.... but they dont look like they can even come close to competing with the trade schools in the equipment department. The list of quality outboard equipment seems to be minimal, and I see you've got a tired old Neve console there (uhh oh, I just committed blasphemy), and some small Midases, plus an API legacy and I think some Pro Tools stuff.... which I suppose really isnt too bad... I've seen other programs at different schools make do with alot less than that..... but still.... I dont know if thats sufficient equipment to be training kids to deal with todays modern consoles and digital recording methods.

[Nemesys]

I will be graduating from Columbia College Chicago this spring (audio recording) and I have absolutly no regrets about spending the last few years at this school. Here, in addition to all the hands on stuff in the truely awsome facilities, you are able to get deep inside audio theory and practice.

Most trade colleges definately suck insofar as their lack of depth in curriculum, a fact they conveniently gloss over in their slick high budget advertisements (take ITT-Tech for example not to mention the trade audio schools).... but one advantage that they do have is in terms of facilities and gear. These trade schools often sink their limited budget into buying top of the line equipment which is all part of the fishing hook to draw prospective students in who will be mesmorized by all the technical amenities offered.

On the otherhand, traditional colleges have a more comprehensive curriculum, but their technical facilities leave something to be desired. Columbia College of Sound definately seems to have a nice program.... but they dont look like they can even come close to competing with the trade schools in the equipment department. The list of quality outboard equipment seems to be minimal, and I see you've got a tired old Neve console there (uhh oh, I just committed blasphemy), and some small Midases, plus an API legacy and I think some ProTools stuff.... which I suppose really isnt too bad... I've seen other programs at different schools make do with alot less than that..... but still.... I dont know if thats sufficient equipment to be training kids to deal with todays modern consoles and digital recording methods.

[CasJams]

I have found the facilities at Columbia College to be more than adequate to learn on. They just completely renovated the audio department here last year and it now includes three control rooms (API legacy... awsome, Pro Tools Control 24... cool, and the neve... eh.) The outboard gear is plentiful (dbx's, 1178s, LA2A's, verbs, delays, everything you need plus some other cool stuff) and the mic selection is very large. I transferred here from the audio program at Indiana University and their facilities were CRAP. Their program was CRAP as well. What I'm saying is at columbia, they do have more than sufficient equipment to learn on, but they don't just teach us how to use THIS equipment, they teach us how to know how this type of equipment works so we can go into any studio and figure out the room in a timely fashion.

[Pres]

Is it hard to get into FullSail? My grades are like B's and C's. I'm getting an internship at a recording studio set up for first semester senior year and I've been asked to sign onto a small underground label in the UK for techno and whatnot. What do they look for? I'm also a Junior in Highschool.

[melo]

Its easy to get into fullsail grades in high school dont matter... for the people saying going to a 4 year accredited college is smarter tell me why?
1.) Full Sail is an accredited school
2.)Our teachers are also professionals in the industry
3.) are gear is a heck of alot better than any gear that is at any 4 year college
4.) no matter where you go you are gonna have to start from the bottom and work your way up with fullsail we just get a 3 year head start on you
5.) if you add up your living expenses for 4 years compared to one it is the same amount as any other college
6.)Full sail is the most respected school in the industry
7.)I dont have to waste 10 grand taking gen ed classes that i passed in high school

if you want more reasons i can give them to you and for the guy that wants to go there just go to www.fullsail.com or call them at 1=800-226-7625 they will give you any information you want on the school