I've always sort of had a thing against DeVry University, just because I tried to get a tour there and they wouldn't let me because I was only a junior in high school instead of a senior. Well, today a representative from DeVry came into one of my classes at school to try to recruit people. His excellent talk (note the sarcasm) was enough to convince me to never get anywhere near DeVry. Basically, here's what happened:
He came in, and started talking to us about possible paths for our futures. The first little mistake he made was when he was writing stuff on the whiteboard about what the difference between a job and a career is. He said something about how in a career, you advance, meaning you get promoted and such. So, he made a bullet point under the Career heading, and wrote "advancment". Minor spelling error, nothing that really bothered me, but I noticed it. Then, later on, he was talking about possible things we could do after high school. One thing that he mentioned was the military. So, he wrote it on the board..."militery". I thought it was sort of odd that a representative for a big high-tech school wouldn't know how to spell the word military, but I figured he was just nervous or something, and I let it go.
So, time passes, he talks about stuff, and eventually gets to how DeVry deals with admissions. He said that to get into the engineering program, a potential student would need to have "good test scores". So, I asked him what kind of ACT score they wanted. I got a nice simple answer, "20". I then proceeded to laugh my ass off, and I'm pretty sure I pissed him off. I'm sorry, but a 20 on the ACT? I could understand that being okay for a little dinky public college, but DeVry's supposed to be a big high-tech place. Anyway, the next part is the kicker.
He was listing off some of the companies that DeVry is partnered with and works closely with...Intel, Microsoft, Micron, etc. I asked him if they worked with AMD at all, and this was where I lost all respect for him. See, he'd been telling us that he was an IT major, and that he was really into computers and hardware. When I asked him if they worked with AMD, he replied with, "Who?" I thought that maybe it wasn't catching in his mind, somehow, so I told him that AMD stands for Advanced Micro Devices. He was completely clueless as to what company I was talking about. Yep. Nobody that was at the talk is planning on even considering DeVry now
So yeah. Take that into consideration when choosing a college
J3
He came in, and started talking to us about possible paths for our futures. The first little mistake he made was when he was writing stuff on the whiteboard about what the difference between a job and a career is. He said something about how in a career, you advance, meaning you get promoted and such. So, he made a bullet point under the Career heading, and wrote "advancment". Minor spelling error, nothing that really bothered me, but I noticed it. Then, later on, he was talking about possible things we could do after high school. One thing that he mentioned was the military. So, he wrote it on the board..."militery". I thought it was sort of odd that a representative for a big high-tech school wouldn't know how to spell the word military, but I figured he was just nervous or something, and I let it go.
So, time passes, he talks about stuff, and eventually gets to how DeVry deals with admissions. He said that to get into the engineering program, a potential student would need to have "good test scores". So, I asked him what kind of ACT score they wanted. I got a nice simple answer, "20". I then proceeded to laugh my ass off, and I'm pretty sure I pissed him off. I'm sorry, but a 20 on the ACT? I could understand that being okay for a little dinky public college, but DeVry's supposed to be a big high-tech place. Anyway, the next part is the kicker.
He was listing off some of the companies that DeVry is partnered with and works closely with...Intel, Microsoft, Micron, etc. I asked him if they worked with AMD at all, and this was where I lost all respect for him. See, he'd been telling us that he was an IT major, and that he was really into computers and hardware. When I asked him if they worked with AMD, he replied with, "Who?" I thought that maybe it wasn't catching in his mind, somehow, so I told him that AMD stands for Advanced Micro Devices. He was completely clueless as to what company I was talking about. Yep. Nobody that was at the talk is planning on even considering DeVry now
So yeah. Take that into consideration when choosing a college
J3