Immerse Reviews

As with others listed here our son entered the essay competition for a chance to win a scholarship to one of the residential courses apparently offered at various Universities across the world Two days before the award ceremony we too received an email informing us that our sons essay had stood out and that while the scholarships were still being finalised we would not want to miss the ceremony to hear what he had been awarded Everyone was excited and hoped for a decent scholarship Due to the time difference we got up in the middle of the night to watch the ceremony via the webinar What a waste of time and so disappointing for our son who wasn t mentioned anywhere Like others on here we then received a follow up email explaining that there had been a technical glitch and we had received the wrong email The correct email should have said that our son had won a merit award This consisted of a very small discount towards attending one of their courses either online or in person It all comes across as a scam to suck unsuspecting parents and students in when all they want is to succeed and do well in their education Heartbreaking for the students who have been led on by this false narrative I bet they haven t even read half the essays Be really cautious if contemplating any sort of interaction with this organisation

My child entered the essay competition and was extremely excited to receive an email from Immerse saying You ve achieved something incredible in the Immerse Education Essay Competition we d love for you to join us as we announce details of your scholarship celebrate your success and showcase what made your essay stand out The clear implication being that she had won some kind of scholarship to one of their courses Needless to say she started to invite all her family members to join the online live ceremony saying she did not know what she had won but that she had won something Everyone joined the 1 hour online ceremony waiting waiting nothing You can imagine the disappointment and confusion It was all just some facade to get as many kids to join their online ceremony as possible They can point to technicalities like the email stated they could not reveal exact awards details until the event etc but the implications were very clear and leaves a horrible impression of the organisation My kid would not have minded at all not winning - she knew thousands of kids were submitting entries But to receive that email get their hopes sky high and then to find out it was all just a ploy to get the kids to sign up to the ceremony where they could market their courses was very disappointing to say the least It is playing with the emotions of young teenagers and is very irresponsible

On the page of the website it says Win a 100 scholarship to a university of your choosing However when my son entered the competition not only was he told he Won something incredible but that he won a scholarship for university Turns out this scholarship is actually for a short summer school program Not only this but immerse education has the audacity to send my son over 8 emails to join the zoom awards ceremony because he has won something amazing at 2 00am only to find out that email was a scam too and he won absolutely nothing I think it s absolutely disgusting that such organisation is playing with children s emotions and luring them into writing an extraordinary essay only to be stunned with shock Immerse education really needs to rethink their entire organisation and simply stop offering things they don t actually offer

My daughter was a recent essay entrant and was tremendously excited to receive an email which implied that she was a prize winner We sat through an hour of the webinar only to realise that in fact all entrants were invited and all would receive a small voucher towards an Immerse Course I feel very strongly that you should re-think the wording of your email She would have been perfectly fine not to be selected but to imply that students have won a prize in order to entice them to attend a promotional event smacks of dishonesty and frankly will deter her and myself from any further interaction with Immerse

Firstly they sent out a shiny email to both me and my parents saying you your son has achieved something special and urging us to attend a truly awful 90 minute prizegiving Zoom call most of which was spent promoting their products Of course my essay was not awarded any kind of prize only their Merit award which they give to everyone who submitted an entry and takes a few pounds off their extortionately priced holiday camps I could ve easily accepted that my essay wasn t selected but to play with the emotions of both me and my parents is shameful Then they released the much-advertised essay feedback a week later No surprises here - it was entirely AI generated and completely useless To be honest I wouldn t trust anything they said after this experience and no I m not interested in a meeting with them to discuss my experience and what they could do better thank you very much

Terrible shameful behaviour by this company My daughter received an email saying she had received a scholarship and inviting her to attend an awards event - and urging parents to also attend - to celebrate her success and to receive feedback on what made her essay so special We attended the terrible ceremony - which as we suspected was just a massive sales pitch - but she had won absolutely nothing And the product is so overpriced she had no chance of ever attending without a prize It s completely unacceptable to communicate with a young person in this way It was clear from the chat and from reviews that she was not the only young person who had been given massive false hope in the same way

Bad unethical company I am reading many reviews that just appeared in the last few hours for experiences over the summer This coincide with the deadline to sign up What a coincidence They operate with the lowest form of marketing in education seen so far Immerse should not be allowed to operate

I got completely scammed They titled a course Computer Science and Machine Learning and added matching course descriptions and images Was actually a Game Development course titled that way so that more people would be attracted Locations were also switched from Christ s College Cambridge to Royal Hospital School Holbrook Definitely not recommended I feel cheated out of my money and my time Edit Thank you Kirsty for replying It s been about 8 months but I d like to address a few points Food and rooms were acceptable those claims were made during my stay and in hindsight I made a few mistakes and unprovable claims I still stand by my claims on location because those were hidden from view in a website redesign which was quite scummy and I am absolutely not doubting Alfie in any way The man was great and he taught what he had to teach wonderfully my complaints have nothing to do with him The guest lecture was also great and that was what I envisioned for the course which is why I didn t mention it during my original review If everything was like those last two points this could ve been an easy 5-star course Too bad that machine learning covered 2 14 days of the course except for Alfie s amazing work and the rest was game design Again covered by a smooth website redesign but I digress The claims about my parents being satisfied are completely baseless and as their son I can assure you they are and have no e-mail proof This all being said I raised my review by one star just because of me reviewing my previous statements and seeing they were utterly false as well as appreciating that these reviews are actually read and listened to in some capacity I will not be changing the title of the review aside from adding Revised and I will not be altering its contents any further All in all this course was a good social experience An educational one not so much Cheers

I had an amazing time at Cambridge on the Physics programme but unfortunately the Physics tutor was horrible She didn t know basic theory about heat light or anything besides electromagnetism which is what her research is about I didn t learn anything from her in two weeks but I learnt a lot more by talking to the other students I tried asking Immerse for a partial refund for this awful service they provided and they only gave me a discount on an online immerse programme which is ridiculous I shouldn t have to spent more money to obtain what I lost from the programme through their mistakes I tried communicating this to them but they refused me a refund on the basis that my class gave a good rating on the overall class experience We only rated that high because we found conversations with each other so enjoyable but we rated the teacher extremely harshly It feels like Immerse are making a poor excuse just to not refund me I do not regret my experience in Cambridge and I met so many wonderful people and enjoyed the activities they provided but their customer service is sly and untrustworthy If you have the money then I wouldn t stop you from doing this course since you d be more likely to get a better tutor than me but be wary

Immerse did false advertisements as they showed in their ads that we will be learning about the technical side of AI yet we got taught about law policies of AI