They might be able to spin their words to make you think that acting or modeling school is a good idea and that it will help you in the industry, but in reality it won't at all. If you're interested in acting or modeling, go to a local agency and let them decide if you have potential. Despite what they tell you, JRP won't help you get jobs, it won't give you a "in" that no one else has and chances are, you won't make any real money from the contacts they say they have. They will say everything to persuade you otherwise but I've been there and now I know better.
There are always going to be success stories, but if there are thousands and thousands of students nationally, there's bound to be a few big successes. If you're really interested, educate yourself - don't pay someone thousands of dollars to do it. When you go to a agency, they'll let you know if they think you need schooling - and if you do, I bet they won't recommend a place liek John Robert Powers. Stay away and don't listen to their lies. They can be very manipulative and turn every question you have into something that you want to hear, but trust me, it's just a smoke screen for them to make money.
How do I know all this? I went to a "audition" with my daughter, asked them lots of questions, got lies for answers and wasted my money. Sure my daughter got tons of "callbacks" from the agents they sometimes brought in but none of it ever meant anything other than her name printed on a piece of paper. It never went anywhere and when I contacted the agents on my own to go out to LA to meet with them again, they basically told me that they were told they had to choose kids to make the callback list and that it didn't necessarily mean that they were interested in actually working with my child. After talking to other parents, it was even worse for some of them! Not getting any callbacks or having a class withonly 1 or 2 kids in it or having a class with 25 kids in it - and this is after they told us no class would have over 12 kids...
It was a waste of time, money, energy and effort! The only good thing that came out of this was realizing that not everything is as it's made out to be. My daughter is currently signed with a agency (not one we saw through them but one we found on our own) and working consistently in acting and modeling. I learned my lessonthe hard way but hopefully you can read this and save yourselves!!
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