on scholarship...still worth it?

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wp91108

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Hey...I was accepted into Embry-Riddle Prescott for Fall 2010, and they're giving me 14k in scholarship per year. Isn't that basically the cost of flight training per year? Is it still worth going there? I really don't know...being an airline pilot is a dream.
 
wp91108 said:
Hey...I was accepted into Embry-Riddle Prescott for Fall 2010, and they're giving me 14k in scholarship per year. Isn't that basically the cost of flight training per year? Is it still worth going there? I really don't know...being an airline pilot is a dream.
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Man, 10 years ago I was only getting ~6k a year in scholarship. Way to go man!
 
KSCessnaDriver said:
Ah yes, but what was tuition back then?
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Well... to be honest, when I left, the credit hour was a little more than double what I was paying. I got grandfathered in on most of the tuition hikes because I started in '99. I left in '03 though, I don't know what Riddle goes for a credit hour now anymore.
 
jynxyjoe said:
Well... to be honest, when I left, the credit hour was a little more than double what I was paying. I got grandfathered in on most of the tuition hikes because I started in '99. I left in '03 though, I don't know what Riddle goes for a credit hour now anymore.
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Somewhere in the neighborhood of about $950/hr. Not fun, not fun at all
 
jynxyjoe said:
950 a hour? Preposterous. Yet somehow they continue to fill the seats, I'll never understand it.
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HOLY jesus.

does this include flight time at all? Over here at the University of Florida we're looking at I believe around 130-140 a credit hour.

Holy crap!

Unless a credit hour at Embry riddle is like a credit hour at Harvard (where 1 credit hour = 1 class)
 
elmetal said:
HOLY jesus.

does this include flight time at all? Over here at the University of Florida we're looking at I believe around 130-140 a credit hour.
Unless a credit hour at Embry riddle is like a credit hour at Harvard (where 1 credit hour = 1 class)
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No flight time included. You wouldn't want to see the flight costs at ERAU either.
 
elmetal said:
that's ridiculous... a 4 year degree there would probably be what about 200k nowadays?

your 15k scholarship is not worth it in my opinion...
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I'd say probably 120K, for a 4 year degree with no flight. Best way to do it is take all the general education stuff somewhere else, get the flight done somewhere else, and transfer it all in. Then spend the money for ERAU for much less time.
 
KSCessnaDriver said:
I'd say probably 120K, for a 4 year degree with no flight. Best way to do it is take all the general education stuff somewhere else, get the flight done somewhere else, and transfer it all in. Then spend the money for ERAU for much less time.
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their flying prices are outrageous too though. I don't see it being worth it honestly.
 
When I started flying at riddle it was 60 bucks a flight hour. We bitched and moaned when it went to 64.75 or 67.45 or something like that. Thank God I was mostly done by sept 11
 
The G-Man said:
I heard it was like $40k for a PPL. But the mouth I heard it from had a few beverages before.
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Is it possible to spend that on a private, I'm sure. I didn't do the private course at ERAU, so I won't really comment on it, just because I don't know anything about it. Only course I did was the instrument ticket.
 
The G-Man said:
I heard it was like $40k for a PPL. But the mouth I heard it from had a few beverages before.
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It was like 5 or 6 when I did it at riddle. Prices doubled so that should still leave it at 12. *shrug*

G-man, I'd think if you just called them up you could get the pricing on your own.
 
KSCessnaDriver said:
Best way to do it is take all the general education stuff somewhere else, get the flight done somewhere else, and transfer it all in. Then spend the money for ERAU for much less time.
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And if you're going to go that route you might as well just skip over the main campus and do the worldwide program. WW classes are only about $250/sem hr which is about a quarter of what it costs at the main campus. That's what I've done.
 
at1024 said:
And if you're going to go that route you might as well just skip over the main campus and do the worldwide program. WW classes are only about $250/sem hr which is about a quarter of what it costs at the main campus. That's what I've done.
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Very true. If a person can make the online college thing work for them, awesome. However, I know from experience I could never make that work. I've taken one class online, and struggled to get through it.

jynxyjoe said:
It was like 5 or 6 when I did it at riddle. Prices doubled so that should still leave it at 12. *shrug*

G-man, I'd think if you just called them up you could get the pricing on your own.
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They've got some prices on the internet, for a general idea of what's going on. As far as I can tell, the prices on flight costs are based on completing every unit with no failure. Honestly, unless your Bob Hoover, I'd at least multiply the costs listed by 1.2, just to have a buffer. If you don't use that money, great, but be prepared.

Estimated Tuition costs: http://www.erau.edu/admissions/estimated-costs.html
Flight costs: http://www.erau.edu/db/flightdb/newfaqs.html#costs
 
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