I wish I knew about a website like this before I got suckered into DCA. At the time I was weighing my options, they were promising from zero time to flying as a paid flight instructor in ten months (knowing it would probably closer to a year). Then you spend a year as a flight instructor then its off to the airlines, and on your way to a glorious career. All that it would cost you is about $50K.
REALITY: I went there with my PVT already, only had to do Instrument, Commercial, Multi, CFI and II. Thinking to myself that it should take about 10 months to complete that. After 13 months and only just finishing CFI ground school, I left. I also observed many flight instructors that were there before I arrived were there while I was supposed to be trying to get a job with them. Average time as an instructor there is about 2 years. Oh, by the way, they don’t include MEI in the pricing, as you don’t get that for about a year and a half after you become an instructor. Total cost that I ended up with for Commercial ASEL/MEL Inst: $72K. There aren’t enough planes for the students. I had so many cancellations due to lack of aircraft.
What hatetobreakit2u said about outside jobs. He’s right, but they don’t forbid you to. Their scheduling is such that you as an instructor or a student cannot have an outside job. They don’t post the schedule for the next day until 5pm the night before. Then you don’t fight out what aircraft you’re flying (flight planning purposes would be nice) until that day. What employer would hire you under those circumstances? Oh, all this for a lousy $10 per flight hour. All ground instruction is unpaid to the pilots, yet they are required to give it.
They do promise job interviews, but that’s all. Its up to you to get the job.