Hello, I am a…read moresenior at Cogswell or how some refer to it "The Cogs". I would like anyone curious about attending the school to know that it's the best you could ask for. It's small and you can connect with a lot of people. You'll have so many close friends that they become family and you won't feel alone, you'll always have companions. The education here is great for anyone who wants to work in the art industry. The instructors here are all different in the ways they teach and you can learn a lot from them if you put effort in their classes. You will work hard, cry, succeed, fail and end up understanding what it means to work in the industry. If you make the mistake I made my freshmen year and goof off then you'll learn the hard way that this school isn't a joke. Some classes are difficult but that's difficult, how will you ever learn? Overall, if you want to come to a small art college with nice people and cool instructors then come to Cogswell.

My son attended the USV from Denver. Online for 1sr yr a year and then went to the campus for…read moreonsite attendance. From the time he was promised Housing which we borrowed money on FSFA the School and Administration was a huge problem. Hard to talk to anyone with a problem to resolve. How is a student who leaves home 1sr yr and gets settled in on Campus in NEW surroundings suppose to concentrate on School when the Housing the school promised would be adequate was everything but Stable and Safe. It was sub par and not a safe environment for a Freshman out of State. Then there is the school. Sub Par, it felt like a scam to me . The Housing turned out to a huge problem that affected his studies. We are now paying the loans and it hurts me everytime I send money to FAFA . For what we were promised and what we received I would NOT recommend any student or Parent to send their child to this University if you can call it that.

Terrible online orientation. This school presents itself as a good choice for online students, but…read morewhat they don't tell you is that you have to show up in person before you can register for classes AND before you can collect your financial aid. The in-person requirements make sense, but they must include that information during the online orientation. I had to drive three hours to this school, last minute, for identity verification. After I got back home, I discovered I had to drive all the way back to hand in my documents at the financial aid office. Communication with Counseling and Admission and Records is a slow process. There are too many issues to cover, but I'm left with a sense that this school has run out money to pay their staff. It's a nice looking school, but I suspect they may be going through some serious budgeting issues, because they seem to struggle to keep business moving.

The person that is at the bookstore is so mind, she always treats the students badly, her name is…read moreClaudia. I am a student at Cañada College but I never felt welcome in the bookstore, every time I went there Claudia was treating the students badly. I don't know how people like that can work there.

Beautiful Spanish style high school and with the new addition cafeterias and classrooms, Fremont…read morehigh is excellent. There's a huge stigma about this school compared to the ones in the same district such as Cupertino, homestead, etc but don't believe the hype. The academics and teachers provide the same care and education as the other schools and it is up to your child how much he studies/performs. My son is going into his junior year and he said he prefers his school to homestead high. Maybe because from middle school, he had a bunch of his friends going there and he would've goofed off more? Yes, it's a lot more diverse but it helps students break away and become more open minded and accepting of different ethnic backgrounds and students, rather than just sticking to the same group from middle school for example. I know for my son, he made a lot of Israeli and Mexican friends and learned a lot about their traditions, language, food, and culture which is great!! He would hang out at their houses and meet their parents, have dinner with them which is wonderful These are defining experiences in shaping how a teenager grows, and how he thinks, and who he becomes later in life. Not just be biased on a school based on test scores. For parents out there who might be deterred from having their child enrolled, don't be! As for grades and school, he's doing well but every child is different depending on how much effort they put in. It is the same in life!! GO FIREBIRDS!!

As a former student, this school has been a good place for me, and the teachers were quite nice…read more They really helped me as a former student to get my life on a better path. However, in some situations, I wish the dean's office had been more supportive instead of gaslighting students who were facing vulnerable circumstances. Additionally, I observed that the school seemed to be more favorable toward Caucasian students compared to students of color, particularly in academic settings. For example, Caucasian students often received A+ grades, while students of color frequently ended up with B+ or lower, which I find highly unfair. All students of color deserve the same opportunity for excellent grades and education as their Caucasian peers. I hope that systemic injustices in our education system can be addressed.

Kathleen MacDonald High School is part of a K-12 educational facility that opened in 2022. We…read moreattended a basketball tournament this past weekend. The facility was beautiful. Refillable water stations. Comfortable chairs in Lobby area. Adirondack chairs in the quad area.

even as a graduate, i still come back to the track! open to residents all summer + during non…read moreschool hours in the school year. sunsets are beautiful and u get the magnificent view of the hills (green in the spring) and a wide assortment of trees (palm, oak, pine, birch). super peaceful track for working out, inner grass area that's cut every 2-3 weeks. no lights after sunset is a downside.

As a recent graduate, my time at Piedmont Hills was good and bad. A lot of the teachers are very…read morepassionate about their work and are down to earth. A lot of them are kind and always nice to talk to despite the decades long age gap between student and teacher. There are a lot of resources such as a wellness center to support students. One of the biggest problems about this school is the terrible management over the bathrooms. There are several bathrooms across school, and many of them will be closed throughout the day. Newer and nicer bathrooms such as the ones in the new art building and science buildings are always closed. The bathrooms that most people use in the hallways also were closed on and off. There are also locations such as the portables and track where there is no bathroom close by (or the nearest is closed). There is also a 10 minute bathroom policy where you can't go to the bathroom for the first and last 10 minutes of class. For me, as someone who drank a lot of water as a cross country runner, this was hell on Earth. There were MANY times where I would go to class, wait 10 minutes for the 10 minute rule to pass to be able to request to go to the restroom, have to take a long walk (~3 minute walk) to a bathroom, find out that it was closed, walk to the other hallway (approx 70m away) to see if their bathroom is open and find that it is closed, and then be forced to give up or try to find staff to open the bathroom or go on ANOTHER long walk to the office to go to the staff bathroom where I'm not supposed to go to because that's the only bathroom that was open. The lack of bathrooms being open and 10 minute rule also leads to LONG lines for the bathroom during breaks and lunches, which is only exasperated by some of the stalls being taken by girls who smoke in there. Not to mention the bathrooms that were allowed to be open were DISGUSTING. The soap was almost always out, there was ALWAYS a sink (out of the two sinks in the bathroom) broken, and cockroaches everywhere. Reminder that there are 8+ bathrooms, but only 2 were ever really open. Just stupid and silly. Just because there are a few bad apples who use the bathroom to skip class doesn't mean that the rest of the school population should suffer. It doesn't just end there though. It took months of student advocating for there to be a porta potty installed at the track. Hundreds of students use the school's outdoor sports facilities throughout the year (track, xc, softball, baseball, tennis, badminton, soccer, etc) and there was no bathroom near there for a long time. Oftentimes after school, the closest bathrooms (the locker rooms which are still ~.25 mile away from the track) were closed. While the porta potties were eventually implemented, they were CHAINED shut and padlocked. The school has a great student life and I made a lot of memories and lifetime friends here, but the bathroom situation was so horrible it gives this school -2 stars.

Built in 2017 this Milpitas extension is utilized by the city of Milpitas when their highschool and…read moreschool district have events such as trainings and seminars. We have been coming here several times when attending this events and so far I have no complaints. They have a few spaces to accomodate about 25people comfortably per room. This is a community college extension of San Jose Evergreen community College and they also offer general ed subjects to high schoolers who who like to go ahead and take a couple of college units while they are still in high school. I just find it awesome to be available so near to my workplace.

Friendly & Knowledgable Staff. They Actually helped me on my first semester find my way around and…read morenow that it's my second semester I went back to thank them and they were very kind and friendly.

The staff was so horrible before I left on medical leave because I have seizures and and I ended up…read moregoing to the Emergency Room that same night. I called them the next morning letting them know I got a blood clog in my Brian but than a week later I went back to the hospital so they can MRN for my Brian and everything came out clear and the next week I went back to school they told me I got no internship but than agin I went back the second time once I came back for the second year and introduced myself with class 32 and and we were going into internship agin and they still gave me no internship it was such a waste of time and a lot of bullshit there organization no help from staff only those that help are from HR counseling but besides that that's the only person I really show respect the rest was awful and don't recommend it to nobody. It was the worst experience of my life that it is a waste of time that they should take the program off. when you ask for help for staff, they always tell you to go ask one of your classmates when they're always telling you when you need help or support come to one of us, but they're always sending you to one of your classmates instead and they don't wanna do nothing

I'm not recommend this program. I joined it. The staff are not professional and friendly. They…read moredon't help you when you have a problem. They often respond very slowly and have a very usual attitude towards students. They probably think people come to study and ask for help from them. They only want to get their work done, and the mission is over.