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To whom It may concern,

My name is Alisha Barnes, a recent graduate from Full Sail University on March 5, 2025, the experience at this university was great. I have learned different things from the courses provided in the Creative Writing Bachelor's Degree Program. The degree program is advisable to future students who want a career in writing. There are many takeaways I have gained. How to write games, screenplays, books, comics, these were things I wanted to learn. To make a better career for myself... Read More when I first signed up for courses at Full Sail University. What’s liked most I learned from mistakes in scripts was the hardest to learn, but using critiques from instructors made me understand further practice makes it better.

I started Full Sail in the spring of 2019. Everything was going good until fall of 2020, when I THOUGHT I was going to graduate. Don't get me wrong I enjoyed all of the classes I took. They sent me my graduations information and everything...but NO GRADUATION! I called them to get an understanding of why I wasn't graduating and they told me I had TOO MANY CREDITS! Never in my life have I ever heard of "having too many credits" so you can't graduate. Smh. They need to get it together. I was very upset... Read More about it. I won't say I won't recommend anyone to this school, nor will I say I will. Enter at your own risk.

I graduate from Full Sail this year, and I've been trying to determine if I want to continue and get my Masters through them or a more well-known school solely for the fact that half of this world only cares about where you went to school. I came across this page while trying to find what professionals think of Full Sail and I'm astonished by all of the bad reviews. I love this school. I went to a community college fresh out of high school and failed every single one of my classes for two years.... Read More Then, I found Full Sail. I explained that I failed all my classes because I wasn't interested and my school didn't care about me, they promised me I would find a better experience at Full Sail, and they weren't lying. From the start, the staff has been very helpful and concerned with making sure my experience was great. Did they have to? No. Did my student liaison have to call me once a month to check up on how my studies were going and if I was comfortable? Did the technical support team have to be by my side 24 hours a day (yes, I'm the girl to call at midnight because Microsoft word isn't working)? Does my financial aid advisor have to go above and beyond to help me find ways to continue this amazing education when the government aid gave no s**** about me because my parents didn't file their taxes? (I'm a 22-year-old homeowner, and, according to the government, you are considered to be a dependent of your parents until you're 24, are married or have a child, but that's another topic I don't need to get into right now) If you're so concerned about money, then sure, don't go here because it is expensive. But I paid a lot less here than I would have at USF or UT or UCF or NYU. And the teachers care about me! They care about me even after I finish their classes! I'm in multiple facebook groups from my past teachers. You guys are really mad that you have to work around a teachers office hours? This isn't high school. This is college. The world doesn't revolve around you. Teachers have office hours for a reason. Chances are, if you call or email them during office hours, they will answer. As for people saying the teachers don't create their own courses and lectures. POSH. So what if they get youtube videos and outside articles to add to the required readings? Those are your EXTRA readings guys. Who do you think picks out those articles and videos? Who picks out the non-traditional text books? That are included in your tuition that you DON'T have to spend 300 on per book? I've been enrolled in this school for over a year (as an online student), and in EVERY single class, I've had a MANDATORY Go-To-Meeting lecture. Where the teacher sits for an hour and goes over that week's lecture and assignments and lets everyone who comes ask question. So did you guys not attend? Or you're just mad that isn't your typical college? Because this isn't your typical college. It's an arts college with a non-traditional program. And that's what so great about it.