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Funniest/Expected Crashout - App Academy

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u/michaelnovati replied ·
Do you have insights into placements year over year? I expect them to be worse, just like every other bootcamps that I've seen some signal from, but I don't have any signal on App Academy,

u/EnjoyPeak88 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

I honesty don’t know the YoY for them but I did have a friend that recently graduated this spring after a year and the cohort was about 20ish of them vs when I graduated with 34? And also my starting class was about 120 while his was about 60-80. So there is definitely a huge los

u/michaelnovati replied ·
Yeah lower admissions across the board.

u/Ok-Perception-229 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

aa grad. they have a placements channel in the discord. if you look into the posts they are making like "X got Y job at Z company" you will see that often times these are not people's first jobs out of aa. instead they're "double dipping" so when someone gets their second or thir

u/michaelnovati replied ·
Lambda School did that. Someone came to Formation and got a great third job and Lambda School posted a screenshot congratulating the person on their job in the placements channel. Looks like a new placement but didn't explicitly say that. I was like WTF, we helped them!