If you look deeper into the matter you might find that some universities world wide
can match ACCD with much lower cost (dept) resulting out of it. But you’d need to
leave the US and their prohibitivly costly educational system.
For sure an M5 might very well be the best and most desireable sedan in the world.
But if you don’t have the dough it is no use keeping looking at it.
If you watch closely where the actual designers in trans come from you’ll see a rather
diverse background. The companies hire different talent for their team and it looks as
if they would not even want a bunch of ACCD graduates taking over completely.
It might be advisable to envision your role in one of those teams and lay a managable
route to that. (including the money issues)
It takes a lot of confidence and persistance to get there, but some of my classmates did,
despite coming from an ID background.
mo-i