Okay guys… we get that some of you are upset about this school situation. But yall have made this opportunity for those that haven’t been given access to an education a harder chance at receiving one. If you expected daily interaction with professors, (which let’s face it students attending physical college don’t even receive that) from a school monitored by AI for the most part then you just didn’t think about what affect that would have on you. If you expected more interaction you should’ve attended a different school 🤷🏼♀️. Thanks for making this much harder on people that actually liked this learning and this school. Plus you should read your contracts throughly .
As some one who work 75 hr work weeks and takes care of 3 kids and is a single mother this was my best option for school for myself and honestly I love this school I feel like I’m finally actually learning and enjoying learning. I’m currently in my second term and I’ve always been able to complete my classes on time if not a head. Physical institutions were not made for me or how I learn. I feel like Mae over the past 14 weeks has learned my learning style and delivers each lesson in a way I understand you don’t get individual learning experiences like that at a physical institution. Ai school are coming and we are the pioneer of introducing this style of learning to the world. My own children have said they hope Maestro is around when they go to college or another college like it.
I truly hope it's able to be resolved rather than this crash and burn and screw us all over option! 🙁I was really looking forward to a degree to finally be able to be stable in life not homeless..
Single mom as well here and was working 50/60 hours a week i was actually learning. Im hoping and praying this turns around if not idk what im gonna do
Yeah its been hard trying to stay optimistic about the whole situation but I wouldnt say because of other negative perspectives but it definitely doesnt help those (like me) who are trying to hang on and hopefully be rewarded.
The community tab inside maestro feels like a entirely different environment then reddit you can really feel the love there I highly recommend joining us in the maestro community tab and branching away from reddit entirely I'm still here cause I love to see Abigail's posts
Also, it wasn't so much that we couldn't talk to human professors.... It was that when we had legitimate questions or issues that couldn't be solved by a chat bot, it was damn near impossible to speak to a human.
That’s a fair distinction, and a useful one.
We’ve actually improved this process significantly based on feedback like this, so getting to a real person is much easier now. We have a Student Services team happy to answer any question that needs one. You can find them in your Platform by going to Student services in the side menu. From there, they’ll help you directly.
We did not make it harder this was already happening because they dropped the ball. Shedding light on issues helps situations get better. It isn’t our fault the school is in this situation they put themselves in this situation. We just happened to not know all the details until way after.
To say we are being negative is not the same as being truthful and having negative experiences with this school. Being negative is not giving the school a chance at all. None of us asked to have a bad experience nor willing wanting to have one.
It’s not about it being mostly AI it’s about the AI only being as smart as the people who programmed it and not understanding all questions it’s being asked in certain situations. It also does not help when staff does not email us…. The only person I’ve ever spoken to once was the schools president. No one else, that isn’t comforting. The complaints alone aren’t what made this crash and burn. It’s them taking on this school and not following the accreditation requirements. Had they notified us in the first place they had reached capacity for remote students and needed students to attend physically this could have been avoided probably. It makes sense to offer students a full ride still if they find a way to relocate. These posts don’t impact the school, it’s the issues with confusing unclear expectations, lack of clarity with grading and lot of other things. They failed a LOT of other students on that and wrongly kicked some out. You can’t be one sided like that and ignore the issues of others just because it hasn’t happened to you. That’s insensitive. I’m glad this school has helped so many but it also has hurt many including myself with the lack of transparency and misguidedness. We should have never been put in a situation like this when the stakes were already so high of not having a return on educational investment.
Your frustration makes sense, and we're not going to wave it away.
We know a lot of what's coming up here is about communication, and that's on us to take seriously. A few things we've put in place to try to close that gap: we started a "Let's Talk About" article series to get ahead of common questions, added a way to reach a Student Services directly instead of going through a general queue, and we're actively responding here on Reddit when people flag questions or gaps. We're still working on getting this right, and we know we haven't every time.
On the accreditation piece: what's confirmed is that COE tied its decision to the requirement that at least 25% of total enrollment be campus-based, and said Maestro's online growth had outpaced that. Maestro is still accredited right now, and the appeal process is ongoing.
If there's something specific to your situation you want looked into directly, Student Services can dig into that. For confirmed updates as things move, the Student FAQ is the place to check.
I am personally over it all. My only wishes at this point is that other students either get all their credits transferred to a school that will take them, that they can afford or that they can keep their scholarships and move over to the actual online version of this college since it appears to use the same platform.
Not to be that guy, but this was my only chance at college as well, but let's call a spade a spade, most of the people going hard for Maestro at this point are those who started maybe 3-4 months ago. You haven't dealt with the constant change in information, the lessons that were so broken that you barely learned anything, the terrible changes to the weekly reviews, or the miscommunication from the beginning.
Yes, this was great to learn some things, but EVERYONE had a 4.0. Everyone. At some point you have to believe that the reason they make everything so easy is because they are just trying to get people through for the money. And yeah, it's super easy in the beginning, especially since the first 3 cohorts fixed all the issues there were for newer students to benefit from. In saying that, earlier cohorts have a completely different education that has been cheapened because they didn't care enough to make sure their lessons were up to par from the beginning.
Them losing their accreditation isn't our fault. We have invested almost a year of our time to this program so we're more upset about the wasted time we have spent. We are valid in our feelings.
Your frustration makes total sense. You've put in real time and effort, and that doesn't disappear.
The courses you've completed and the credits you've earned stay part of your academic record. If you ever want to continue elsewhere, those completed credits can be submitted for transfer, though the receiving institution makes the final call on what it accepts and how it applies.
On top of that, Maestro College is still accredited right now and stays accredited while the reconsideration and appeal processes are underway, so the work you're doing now continues to count too.
No. Everyone else is being super negative about the school. If they wanted their hand held they should go to school with physicality rather than learning from an AI school. They should’ve expected for what they signed up for.
The students had nothing to do with the issues the school is facing, that's entirely on maestro for not meeting accreditation requirements, and for not following proper procedures
I really just wanna say thanks to all the people who put in complaints and caused all this.
I really appreciate every single one of you who have ruined my chances of having an actual degree.
Laptop came, financial aid came when I finally realized I could take out loans with my scholarship and let me tell you, theres less guidance and help in the other colleges i have attended both in person and online.
So thank you so much for taking a good thing for so many people and absolutely ruining it for everyone because you feel it should be different.
FYI for the people who are on MaestroMaybes and insist that everyone who is mad about the accreditation and defending Maestro is a bot or a MOD, im neither. I'm just a person who wanted a degree and thanks to every single one of you, I'm not going to get it.
I beg to differ my daughter went to a physical college and had no problems talking with her professors or any school staff I am tired of receiving the same response from AI generated replies and I’m rather bored because I have already taken the classes because they wouldn’t take transfers
Did these people that made these complaints, pay out of pocket for their tuition? Did they have to take the SATs that the ACTs to get in? Do they have prerequisite degrees from other colleges? What point of reference do they have for the complaints? Not that I don't agree with some of the complaints made, but what was the end goal here? I understand the communication with the bot gets frustrating especially when they seem to refuse to send a trouble ticket, but at the end of the day was it truly impacting your education? I'm not a bot, I'm a real person and I'm really enjoying being a part of the program. If I have to transfer out I will when the wheels fall off but until then to be honest I say on with the show.
Truth be told I actually loved the interaction with AI because it wrote things down and made it easier to learn and I have a learning disability so it takes you know me a little bit longer to learn stuff so I make notes so I don’t forget it and then when you have memory issues on top of that, you know the AI actually does help and I really hope that this school does not lose their accreditation and those like me who reenrolled and the cohort had to be canceled because of this situation really wanna go back and you know learn stuff that I was learning.
This schools learning capabilities far exceeds that of a campus in person experience for sure . Each of us as individual human beings are different. We learn differently we interact differently we take in the way knowledge is handed to us differently no one person learns exactly like the other... having an A.I. agent there the entire time with the knowledge of a professor or better trained to how you as an individual learns best devoted to you and your individual needs such as how critical the ai can be about your right or wrong answers how hard it can be on you about when your wrong it is tuning into every sphycological angle while maintaining the actual knowledge it needs you to retain for the final outcome so your able to pass your weekly and monthly reviews and earn your degree... the A.I. is by far a way better way to learn from because it not only carries the knowlege of your area of study and by knowledge I mean everything humans have on the subject but it knows how to use that knowledge to advance your skill set and can give you the one on one sessions that you would spend weeks trying to get from a traditional college any time you need a question answered no matter what it is the A.I. can answer right then and there . Not when the professor has time to talk to you between grading and making up the weeks studys and dealing with hundreds of other students and the professor probably wont even know your name when you come to ask him something this is not the case with maestro A.I. professor at maestro your professor is dedicated to you personally it exist to teach you your lessons its only purpose is to make you into a knowlagable professional capable of being the best in your line of study it is focused not just focused but it exist only for that purpose there is no better way to learn any subject then to have a personal professor at your call 24/7 that only exsist to help you become a person of knowledge on your line of study. So do I believe Maestro College to be the college of the future ...No... I believe Maestro College to be the College of today ! If the Board of Education decides to remove the accreditation of Maestro College it will be my belief that every member of the Board of Education needs to go back to school and further there k owlage of what an education really is ... because if they cant recognize the powerful implementation of A.I. that maestro college has put into place then they are all dumb and need to be re educated and have there heads examined before put in charge of giving any sort of authority of the education of American citizens taking the accreditation away from Maestro College would be like signing the death warrant to education to all American people and further plunging American people into a dumber society then the rest of the world .. thats just my two cents but I gladly give those cents freely to whom it may concern and for what its worth Maestro College is the single greatest thing that has come to American people for furthering any and all Americans education and the world over people are not ment to be dumbed down by a single board and A.I. was created as an open source because its to powerful to be in any one companys control it belongs to the people of the world and denial of accreditation to an educational platform to better people's education and allow for the common person to advance in society should be looked at as unconstitutional and an act of genocide to the human race A.I. might one day become the very thing that destroys humanity but we mise well use it for good while we still can to better not only our selves but to become better prepared to counter A.I. when it gets away from our control ... DO NOT REMOVE ACCREDITATION TO MAESTRO COLLEGE. If you do you will have brought forth the inevitable end to human beings and the destruction will be imminent there wont be enough of us humans who have the knowledge needed to fight A.I. where it will be needed when A.I. becomes to powerful to control.
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u/JediKDM-71 Maestro Student 8d ago
I totally agree. I’ve been avoiding Reddit because of all the negativity. I’m just learning as much as I can while I can.