Sae..? Well, there are probably two types of mentioned school. The one group are schools situated in big cities(NYC, London, LA...) where you get to learn on excellent equipment and being tutored by some well known producers and engineers who visit those premises from time to time, and then the other group are sae schools in small countries with equipment no better than average home studio and teachers averaging 20-25 years old. I visited an open day in such school in Slovenia. At the end, I got the really bad feeling that big time chief Tom Misner realized that there is quite good East European market of "engineer" wannabes waiting to be plundered. I mean, studio in which students learn is even under average home studio. For the price you pay sae to learn "big tricks" you can easily set up the same exact studio at your home and pay to someone who has few records done (all those teachers put together have 0 published LP's produced or engineered whatsoever,ccc...).
As for that first group of sae schools, thumbs up, I'm sure you can learn some good things, and if nothing else, get to know real eqipment.
