Way back when I did my training folks were careful with their pennies, they were hard won as many were not born with the proverbial silver spoon. Research was done on any potential school to try to choose right, to try to find a good one that wouldn't take your money and run, to pick the one that had a proven track record of turning out student pilots who would be ready to take on the next phase of their airline careers. It seems like DAE and others like them scrutinised you much harder than you scrutinised them, that was one of their great deceptions, fooling prospective students into thinking that they were the 'chosen ones'.
For those reading this who intend to fly, ignore the brochures and fancy pictures as they are only marketing. Marketing is a cheap and despicable career of the uneducated, there is no substitute for reputation in this business and those who fall for glossy brochures will be sorely disappointed.
Obviously I won't tout any school by name but there are many good ones out there just...
DO YOUR RESEARCH!
Hustle on!