pittsburgh: I am a senior in High school and I have been excepted to The Arts Institute of Pittsburgh for Photography and I have heard some negative things about the The Arts Institutes, so is this a good a song to attend, or is it a fraud? I would love to attend to this school. But some of the things I have heard, worry me. So could you please give me some positive and some negative answers. Thank You.|||Seriously, and I"m sure that you're very talented, but just about anyone can get accepted into the 'art institute' as it is one of those private overpriced for-profit tech schools. Please listen to the negative reviews of the school (and 'fashion institute of technology' and 'fashion institute of design'). There are quite a few negative posts by former students at these consumer sites: http://www.ripoffreport.com http://www.pissedconsumer.com http://www.complaintsboard.com and can type into search. Even those with a college (four-year) degree from an accredited program in art and design may have difficulty find work, but here is a site with accredited programs in the field: http://nasad.arts-accredit.org and can click "member lists" on the left-hand side of the page. For US colleges: http://www.utexas.edu/world/univ General career information: http://www.bls.gov/oco and can search 'photographers' or such.|||Don't waste your time/money on The Art Institutes. They're a debt trap. They're an elaborate corporate scam to funnel as many Government Pell grants and guaranteed loans out of students as they can and leave the students with the bill. If its one of the Art Institutes run by EDMC, avoid them like a plague. They're like McDonald's of Art "Colleges". They're a chain that is popping up everywhere. They buy out dying schools, rename them, keep the accreditation. They may seem like they would be good, but it is all smoke and mirrors. Pretty building with pretty computers. Meanwhile, it will just ruin your life. The market demand they say they're meeting is not the demand of the Job market, its the demand of the students. Students that graduated AI are struggling to get jobs and have over more than $50,000+ or $90,000+ in debt depending on what degree they went for. Degrees that are worthless in the job market. Basically, AI is a degree mill. They use bloated success stats and circle logic to back them up. They count students working at Toys R Us as in the field. Avoid them if you want to actually have a decent future. If you really want to pursue your passion, go to a community college, study fine art, and then transfer into a state school. It will be cheaper and the money you save you can buy your own equipment and STILL have money left over for a better future. Their job leads are bogus, they go to Monster, Craigslist, and career builder just like everyone else. Their top employer is HOME DEPOT (Check their own website) and I guarantee none of those are art jobs. Don't make the same mistake my friends and I did. We'll be paying for it for the rest of our lives. If you go with AI you'll be folding clothes at Target or hawking video games at Toys R Us for $8.25 an hour and struggling to pay $90,000 with bill collectors haunting your every waking moment with no way to stop them because there is no bankruptcy protection on Student loans. lol it wouldn't let me post ALL my sources, it said I have too many.