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September or November? How to pick your cohort start date
Four in-person start dates remain in 2026: September 14 (MWF), September 29 (T/Th), November 9 (MWF), and November 17 (T/Th). Here's how to actually choose — because "later" has a way of becoming "never," and both months have a real case.
First: the two questions that matter more than the month
Question one: which days can you actually protect? Each month offers both rhythms — Monday/Wednesday/Friday or Tuesday/Thursday. If your work schedule, childcare, or other commitments make two days easier to guard than three, that answers half the decision by itself. Question two: when do you want to be job-hunting? The program runs about twelve weeks, so count forward: a September start has you interviewing around the end of the year; a November start puts you in the market in early spring. Both work — they're just different finish lines.
Compare the two seasons (tap each)
The honest case for not waiting
Here's the pattern we see every single enrollment cycle: the people who pick the later date "to get ready" are usually no more ready in November than they were in September — because readiness mostly comes from starting, not before it. There's no prerequisite homework, no fitness test, nothing to prepare that the first two weeks don't teach you. If both months genuinely work for your life, take the earlier date and be twelve weeks ahead of the version of you that waited.
Every cohort is capped at eight students — that's a teaching decision, not scarcity theater. But it does mean a cohort can fill before its start date. If a specific date matters to you, the $500 seat hold (or paying in full) is what makes it yours.
Holidays, kids, and real life
A November start does cross the holidays, and we build the schedule knowing that — students aren't asked to choose between class and Thanksgiving dinner. Some students actually prefer training through the holiday season: the structure keeps momentum through a time of year when job searches slow down anyway, and you come out the other side credentialed exactly when offices are setting their new-year budgets and filling positions. Parents juggling school pickups: daytime classes two or three days a week are more compatible with a kid schedule than most jobs are — here's how other parents made it work.
Whichever you pick, the mechanics are the same
Same ~12-week curriculum, same Longview campus, same instructors, same price: $3,000 paid in full or $3,500 on the plan ($500 down + $3,000 balance). Daytime hours — call or text (903) 913-6444 for exact times before committing to a rhythm. Every date lives on the calendar, and if you want to see the room before you decide, a campus tour is free and low-key.
Pick your date. We'll handle the rest.
September 14 · September 29 · November 9 · November 17 — eight seats each.
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