Professional losers like this will tell you they know better and everyone else is wrong. I will agree with this person to a small extent in that if you are going through an unsympathetic or uncaring recruiter then going through a school directly might be beneficial, but it is extremely careless and in fact can be quite precarious if you don't know what you are doing or if you are stubborn enough to not admit otherwise. In any case, if you do go through a good, caring recruiter then they can get you a safe and secure job and make sure you live happily after. If the school violates the terms of the contract you have an ally on your side. I will leave it to everyone to decide for themselves. I am not going to sit here and dictate to everyone like everyone else in this board what right and wrong is. People are smart enough to figure it out themselves. If you want to do it all yourself, then you have no one else to blame except for the person in the mirror if anything goes wrong as often does in China. God bless…