Well, so how do you learn to draw better anime-style? Because that's what I want to focus on.
Look, there's always two sides to entertainment: Art and Industry. Art schools are not focused on the industry part at all. What they want isn't artifice. It's not raw exceptional skill, not the mastership of one particular technique. It's the ability to produce something new every time. The "Artist" as in "the Artisan" and the Artist as in the modern understanding of "the Artist" are two different things. The artisan is the industry type. a skilled worker that can execute tasks exactly and efficiently with well honed skill. The Artist is the creator type. You usually won't see them in the drawing studios, you couldn't use them there. They either create exceptional, original stuff or end up as arts teachers at schools.
It is true that the tendency of "the artist" is often rather snobish towards "the artisan", but that's because they value creativity and originality higher than skill. The artisan, on the other hand, rarely needs that much creativity. He sits in the studio, gets the storyboard and is expected to crunch out great drawings at insane speed. Both skillsets are valuable and needed in their own right, but yes, if you are only interested in perfecting one particular skill, then an arts school is the wrong place for you. Art schools have to deal with the whole of art, not just one niche. That's no reason to badmouth them, though.
It is interesting to note however that music schools are a lot different in that perspective. You usually have to study a specific style of music (even though the mastery of the instrument will easily allow you to play other stuff if you want to), but somehow it does not go that way in art schools...