u/slickvic33 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
They are more likely to stick through it due to sunk cost (i paid alot of money), and structure (someone tells me what to do), accountability (i get in trouble if i dont do it), and social support (im along side classmates who are in the same struggle)
u/michaelnovati replied ·
This is a good point for short term intense bootcamps or fixed curriculum bootcamps.
Self paced program non-cohorted programs (e.g. TripleTen and Springboard) tend to have very low completion rates Sprinboard's CA report showed something like only 23% of people finishing within 1.5X the expected time.
I don't think this is 100% due to the self-paced nature but also due to the fact that people who have busy lives might self-select into these programs and end up too busy to finish the or change their goals.
I work at an interview prep platform and we see maybe 15% (educated guess) of people who stick around for a long time end up leaving before getting a new job for a wide range of reasons, but even people who are actively job hunting, they have periods of ups and downs and it's kind of the nature of this style of option.
Anyways this got long, I don't have time to write shorter, cleaner comments haha, but point being that not all program types have this benefits, but the more intense rigid structure ones certainly do.