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Geek Culture / Any one went to DigiPen

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Great Knight
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Posted: 13th Mar 2004 20:38
Has any one here ever went to Digipen College(The College that is right next to Nintendo of America). If so how was it.
http://www.digipen.edu
I played some of the students work and the work was fun.

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QuothTheRaven
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Posted: 13th Mar 2004 21:12
No, I'd rather go to a real college that's actually been accredited. DigiPen is kind of a low quality school, not good for a formal education.

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Posted: 13th Mar 2004 21:14
IMO If you're thinking of going to that field try somewhere like Stanford, or Cambridge.

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Posted: 13th Mar 2004 21:38
I am planning on going to DigiPen. I read about it in Nintendo Power and it seems really cool.

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Posted: 13th Mar 2004 23:43
Quote: "No, I'd rather go to a real college that's actually been accredited. DigiPen is kind of a low quality school, not good for a formal education."

whats a real college? a college that will give you an education of what you need in the area of work you choose? okay, i want to be a computer programmer, i go to (lets say) some "real" college and i go to a computer programming place to get a job, woopsy, they dont want me!
but lets say i go to digipen, i go up to nintendo to get a job, "i got good grades at digipen and work hard" bingo, job in your pocket. and i garentee digipen is acreadited. any computer programer that is highering, will recognise a good programer when they see one.

Quote: " am planning on going to DigiPen. I read about it in Nintendo Power and it seems really cool."

heh, "i read something in a game magazine, it sounds cool so i want to go there even tho i know nothing about it."
dont go places becasue it "sounds cool", do it becaseu you've studied out a place and it soudns like what you want. Anything that is advertising things, will make it sound much better than what it really is (usually)

wow, that was fun

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Posted: 13th Mar 2004 23:44
Quote: "I am planning on going to DigiPen. I read about it in Nintendo Power "


Hehe, the best University recommendation there is

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Posted: 14th Mar 2004 00:32
I went to a Game Design post-secondary school and got screwed. Watch out It was a school that's been around for over 25 years...


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Posted: 14th Mar 2004 04:44
Well I like it also because I joined their Project FUN. It was like a $15 a year class. It gave you the FUN SDK. It was kinda fun. And I was able to make some cool games. Every week or so they had a new project that we had to complete.

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Posted: 14th Mar 2004 05:54
anyone watch around the world in 80 games on barvo? (UK) i think there was a screening based on digipen... with Nintendo right next door

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Posted: 14th Mar 2004 06:17
Quote: "No, I'd rather go to a real college that's actually been accredited."


Quote: "Welcome to DigiPen Institute of Technology, located near Seattle, Washington, in the community of Redmond. Institutionally accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges of Technology"



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Posted: 14th Mar 2004 10:21
http://www.digipen.edu/admissions/tuition/

$70,000, wtf? We'd have to sell our house, furniture, and land titles for that...

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Posted: 14th Mar 2004 21:39
Quote: "$70,000, wtf?"


Well worth it *if* you're guaranteed a job at Nintendo after graduation. A good job, not coffee wench.


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Posted: 14th Mar 2004 22:03
But if you don't get in they refund $50. How helpful.

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Posted: 15th Mar 2004 01:04 Edited at: 15th Mar 2004 01:04
Quote: "70,000, wtf? We'd have to sell our house, furniture, and land titles for that..."

sell your house?

Not really...

Plus, Im sure that you pay as you take the classes each semester; So it's not like "Pay us 70k upfront".

Besides, 70k is cheap for a college that offers a job in industry.
If you look at other Universities that pretty much guarantee an internship andor job, you have to pay, much, much more.

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Posted: 15th Mar 2004 13:23
Yep, in Australia we have a game development course that has a 90% certainty of getting you a job... oh wait, it's only $18,000 though, which converts to approx $10,000 US. Phew! I'm so glad I live down here.


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