Please let me know if you are still interested in transferring.” I respond that I will make this work. I get an email stating “Apologies for the confusion, the next available cohort is not 04/04/20. I respond and let the team know that the 04/04/20 Cohort is good with me, and get an auto-response saying it may take them 48 hours to respond, but I could be dismissed for not responding by the next morning?! I get an email at 9 A.M about my transfer, stating “If you do not reply by 9AM, your case will be closed and you will be dismissed from the program.” and “We will look for availability in the Full-Time Online UX/UI 04/04/20 If the cohort is full, we will look for space in the next available cohort 05/25/20.” Then Flatiron pulled the rug out, here is how things play out…. Regardless, I was eager to give the program another shot.
Featuring disjointed materials, only 15 mins of weekly “face to face” time with your instructor when you’re expected to put in 30+ hours each week, educational coaches that don’t understand the material or the industry, weekly lectures that served as merely a recap and then an hour of clearing up all the confusion around the homework (they call this “learning through iteration”, but in the end it’s just stress for no reason and hours of wasted work). I had serious issues with the program during my first initial stint. I alerted my instructors, and after several weeks it became apparent that I needed to defer to a later class. Sadly, my health failed just as the cohort I was set to join got kicked off in early March. This investment would end up being over $10,000. With this scholarship, my family agreed to help me obtain an apartment in Denver and cover my rent during the program. This was the Hail Mary that I thought was going to turn my life around. I was a month from being homeless, my job search was going poorly (and I needed a new career direction). I couldn’t afford the tuition, and my credit wasn’t good enough for a loan or ISA program, so when I got a call on February 4th that I had been awarded a scholarship thanks to NexTech’s “100 Innovators in Tech” program, I couldn’t help but cry. I had committed myself to following my dream of becoming a UX Researcher and Designer (which was a big mental undertaking for me, truly going for what I knew I’d be good at, versus development where I “manage”). Coming in to Flatiron School, I was incredibly excited.
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