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Rossmann: Most potential top software engineers are not natural autodidacts
“I'm now certain that like the majority of people who could be a great software engineer at a really competitive and selective company the majority of those people are not by default autodidacts who could just go to a MOOC and get all the information they need.”
Rossmann: Make School is the only surviving young dropout startup from its YC batch
“My co-founder and I are the only young founders in our batch whose company is still alive. So when you look at it from that perspective, you look today, what are the companies from my YC batch that still exist and are still successful? There is, there are zero…”
Rossmann: Purdue and other universities use Make School's ISA documents
“We've started seeing actually is that other colleges, even big ones are adopting our income share agreements. The largest example is Purdue. The documents that we helped coauthor back in 2014 when we piloted our first college program, which has turned into thi…”
Rossmann: Corporate tech internships have not systematically dropped degree requirements
“And I can tell you with certainty that there is no university recruiting internship program that I've come across that has dropped Degrees as a requirement in any sort of systematic way.”
Rossmann: Make School students only pay tuition if they get jobs
“What's really special about it is that students don't have to pay tuition unless they get a job.”
Rossmann: Make School takes on debt to fund student education upfront
“We get financing to cover our cost of educating students So we're the school that actually goes in debt when students enroll. It's kind of a reversal. So normally, you know, you enroll at a college, you go into debt. When you enroll at our college, we go into …”
Rossmann: Make School students can earn a four-year bachelor's in two years
“So you can actually graduate with a four year bachelor's in two years. If you take our intensive our intensive track.”
Rossmann: Structuring school like a workweek best prepares students for the workplace
“We want to be preparing our students for a transition into the workplace, and we've realized that the best way to do that is actually to structure their week like a work week.”
Rossmann: Make School Has Run Income Share Programs Since 2014
“We've been running the income share based program since 2014. So we actually have five years of data, our students getting jobs at Facebook, Google and Tesla and all these great companies.”
Rossmann: 90% of Make School students choose full Income Share Agreements
“Even though we do let students mix and match if they want to, 90% of our students go full ISA.”
Rossmann: Make School Competes with Universities Rather Than Bootcamps
“Our student audience is, is majority students who would otherwise be in college or who are college age. So when people, you know, we just had a prospective student weekend last weekend a hundred students coming in from all over the country, parents coming in f…”
Rossmann: Make School received regional bachelor's accreditation in fall 2018
“We are actually one of the first colleges to be created under new accreditation rules. So we were accredited this past fall. We offer a real accredited bachelor's degree accredited by the same accreditor that accredits Stanford and UC Berkeley and so on and so…”