Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), Atlanta — Local services in Atlanta

Worst school I've ever been to. I'm struggling mentally bigtime and they just can not be bothered to care, truly. You'll hear several times a day about how "SCAD CARES" and "we want you to be successful" and all this empty platitude BS, but then not ONE person reaches out to you at all, aside to send generic autoreply messages with links to follow and forms to fill out that I've already filled out. It's not worth it at all, It's $4K a class (and rising), There's a ridiculous 4-absences-and-you-fail policy which makes it harder for us to juggle our own work and lives and have actual real-world experiences like college is SUPPOSED to do. I just got into a car accident this week and emailed my professor the police report and photos and everything as soon as it happened, and he still marked me absent. Trust me, you'll only enjoy it if you're pretty and outgoing and have lots of friends, it's just a popularity contest. They only clap during presentations for the pretty and likeable people. They only say bless you when the pretty popular girl sneezes. In other words the ones who ALREADY HAVE the personality traits and social skills needed to pursue a career and be successful are the ones who are rewarded. I've been attending almost 4 years now (because of the absurdly uneconomical tuition cost) and I don't feel like I've learned anything or grown at all, All that's grown is my bill, Once you've actually paid the tuition there's still a big long list of like 20 items you have to purchase before your next class, and I swear to you like 75% of that stuff never gets used a single time during each course. They really ought to be ashamed of themselves but of course they won't, they already...

I would not recommend the school simply because a they lied about having a reliable timely shuttle to the Marta station but every time I went down there they were not. The shuttles are supposed be running every 15 minutes that is unless you want to go after dark. Each day I waited 30 minutes to an hour and finally security brought me to the station the last time. I then had to start driving in and that traffic is ridiculous. Also most of the printers and scanners don't work very well. They were not hooked up properly and that was kind of a running joke. Scared really does spend their money on advertising and promotion and not the things students really need. The apple machines were all right but the PCs take 20 minutes to sign you in which is ludicrous who has that kind of time to waste. The elevators are also rather dodgy and half the time the buttons may or may not work. and most of all one of the drawing teachers makes very disparaging comments about mental illness that are very inappropriate. However to be fair he does warn you he will make really horribly inappropriate comments and that he was reprimanded the year before and apparently he lived up to the promise of doing it again. Not to mention the massive amount of pollution right in the heart of the city. In case you have any breathing problems or allergies you really shouldn't go they allow dogs in class not even service dogs just for the hell of it. A fellow classmate had a lung collapse and I just felt bad...

If I could rate the summer program a ZERO I would. The whole summer program experience was awful from the moment my student landed at the airport and the shuttle we had reserved was no longer running. Arriving later than expected they promised to provide the student a meal, but instead would not allow him to join the other students in the cafeteria. Security guards kept him confined to his dorm and when he said he needed food TWO security guards chaperoned him to a vending machine. After two days on campus I received a call that my students behavior (he's working on his Eagle Scout rank so I questioned all of this) meant that he'd been punished and would not be allow to participate in a talent show, and if he didn't shape up he'd be kicked out of the program. They have no actual facts about anything that he did. They didn't hear him or see him do anything, but accused him of potentially having known someone else who did something inappropriate. They seemed very gender biased and referred to my son only in a collective of "the boys" - I kept asking but what about my student... they had nothing but still threatened daily to turn him out on the street. How much creative work do you think would happen in an environment like this? At least he made good friends through the trauma bond! How...