Empire beauty schools "rules" are a joke. They are made for the administrators to follow or break at their own choice. School rules say that if a student misses more than 33% of a ciriculum that they are DROPPED. But some students miss random days and are dropped even though they score high on all their tests, while other students "charm" their way into missing and are allowed. One such student is on a family vacation with her husband and kids and missed a whole week chemical relaxing classes but yet she is not going to be dropped, while another girl missed 2 days of facials and was dropped. I don't know about you, but if someone is going to be putting chemicals on my head, I want her to have attended classes not just read the book!! This school is a joke and I don't recommend it to anyone and DON'T GET YOUR HAIR DONE THERE, no telling who you will get and you don't know if they attended class or not!