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frog_flyer said:
The United States Air Force will pay for your college if you do engineering and don't suck.

The United States Army will pay for you college if you have a pulse.

Things to consider.

I'd also look at the male to female ratio at your school. TCU's is almost 2 girls to every dude, and let me say that it makes the college experience quite a bit more enjoyable.

Purdue, however: ask Chris Ford about the ratio there.
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Not only Purdue, the whole TOWN has 138 males for 100 females. The next highest I could find nationwide was 102.5

Purdue itself is 60-40, but it's engineering girls so it's like 80-20
 
I'm pretty sure the girl to guy ratio at TCU is something like 4 to 1....3 to 1 at the least. I'm starting at Texas A&M next week, and that is one big thing I will miss about TCU!
 
hey as much as i hate A&M, there are a lot of cute girls there. tcu just has the slightly richer ones.

i thought of another reason to not go to an aviation school: which one of your teams is going to be fun at all to watch? i wasnt going to consider college a success unless my being a fan contributed to a national championship, which it clearly did last year. Vince Young is/was a great qb, but i doubt we would have been there had I not faithfully attended every game i could afford to attend.

alright that's a little over the top, but seriously, what do those guys at aviation schools do for sports? i hope they dont have to rely on their favorite NFL team to succeed (i wont be over the Cowboy's loss for a while...)
 
Well I went flying yesterday and I asked my instructor what colleges would he recommend for aviation. And do you know what he said? HE said , Let me Tell you something.... I cut him off at this point and said " can I guess what you're going to say?" He said sure. I said " it's best to pick a filed outside of avaition." He said yeah how did you know I was going to say that and I said I heard that form jet careers lol. Now I am going to pick a course outside aviation because im going to a community college first to take my Gen ed classes as well as i'll take some degree program there. Probably lieberal arts for my gen eds and I will have to look for a good degree program. Will that count if it's just a community college?
 
Wait a second you sound like you're a sheep following the herd. Do your research. stay away from those lame aviation only colleges...you have 4 great years ahead of you make the most out of them...aopa has a college aviation directory...do a search in your region and see what you find...like i said stay away from those aviation only colleges look at the schools with a program but that have a variety of other majors available as well... You can have a life, live the college life, fly a couple times a week and take some interesting aviation classes and get credits for them...some of these schools have reduced hiring minimums with airlines if you decide to go the aviation degree route and that is a big plus...and you can still get a degree in something outside of aviation if you wish, but if you do decide to major in aviation get a minor at the very least or double major(don't work too hard though :). While I don't plan on majoring in aviation, i am still taking some aviation classes and it makes the day go by a lot faster. Make the decision for yourself don't let others push you around and make it for you.
 
frog_flyer said:
The United States Air Force will pay for your college if you do engineering and don't suck.

The United States Army will pay for your college if you have a pulse.
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Frog, the statement about the Army is dead wrong if you are referring to ROTC scholarships.
 
ChinookDriver said:
Frog, the statement about the Army is dead wrong if you are referring to ROTC scholarships.
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Fine, fine. You have to maintain a 2.5 Cumulative GPA. Better hit the books!

Part of the USAF's force shaping is cutting scholarships so there are fewer cadets commissioning through ROTC as well as the money saved on scholarships. The army is blowing up so they need to throw money at bodies to get them in. I'm not saying ARTOC has bunch of retards running around, they probably do, but I know a couple of great guys in that program. AFROTC has a retard problem with a couple of cadets at my det. Just trying to clear up that I'm not taking a shot at the Army... my original statement wasn't too far off....
 
Hmm. There's a difference between "minimum standards" and the standards by which scholarships are awarded.

It doesn't matter if you were taking a hit or not, your opinions are not supported by facts.

Do you know what is the average SAT/ACT score, and the average GPA of a 4-year AROTC scholarship winner? You say your original statement wasn't "too far off"... how do you know that?
 
ChinookDriver said:
Hmm. There's a difference between "minimum standards" and the standards by which scholarships are awarded.

Do you know what is the average SAT/ACT score, and the average GPA of a 4-year AROTC scholarship winner? You say your original statement wasn't "too far off"... how do you know that?
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I could google it, but I'm not really that worried about it. I do know, however, that the 4 year scholarships (for incoming frosh) usually have better grades and scores than those that apply for in-college scholarships, at least in the AFROTC.

I do know that there have been several AFROTC cadets that have punched out and landed in AROTC territory because they offered them a <better> scholarship.

PS, the 2.5 Cum GPA to Maintain is used for afrotc too.
 
I appreciate all of your replies and find them extremely helpful. As you know I am most likely going with all of your opinions and doing a degree outside of aeronautics to have a back up just in case. But I am also going to do the aviation degree programs to. Preferably a program that offers a bachelors in science for the program. Now, other than New York, What other states on the Northeast region offer excellent aviation programs that I can get a B.S. degree in? If I decide not to stay in my hometown i'd rather be at least close to it.
Keep the helpful comments coming thanks.
 
Please reconsider going to college for aviation. If you are going into aviation in college, go to the management side. I spent tons of money to get all my license and I couldn't find a job to save my life after college. Finally ended up working line service at an FBO for a little over a year making under $10. Thought this would be a good move because I could try to get on a lot of flights with the people based with us, right? Wrong....I only got a ride on 2 flights. Got to fly a Cessna 404, and a Conquest II, but that was about it.
Worked as a CFI for about 2 years, but didn't really enjoy it.
Finally got a dispatchers license and most likely will make that my career.
I now have a ton of student loans to pay back, I don't make really all that much money, and I am very limited with my degree as to what jobs I can try to apply to.
That's my sob story and I'm sticking to it.
 
Ok I'm looking for a college with a good aviation program to go to after I get out of community college, I basicly have three choices but am open to suggestions

1. UND love the aviation program but hate the place it's far away and ugly lol

2.FIT aviation program is supposed to be pretty good but again far away and I'm not really a beach man, also is most likely costly

3. University of Colorado in Boulder, I would love to go to college there but the aviation program is basiclly unheard of, but the campus is beautiful and I love ski bunnies lol.

those are the only ones I am considering now but feel free in enlighten me on other good schools.

Thanks Steve :insane:
 
University of Colorado Boulder--- Get here, pay instate and behold the coolest town in the united states. I ski/snowboard 3 times a week at vail, breckenridge, keystone and A-basin. During the summer I was a whitewater rafting guide and spent all my free time whitewater kayaking. There is a small airport here in town (1v5) and Jeffco just down the road (BJC). Others may try and argue otherwise, but this town is money for the ladies. Take one walk through campus and if you don't see at least a half a dozen 10s, your blind. Its not like some schools where you will be hitting the books 24/7 but you still get a decent education. I would like to say I majored in women, skiing and kayaking (with an economics major and business minor on the side).

I plan on working at a regional airline then flying corp or major so that I have a more open schedule. This open schedule will allow me to ski/snowboard 3 times a week, kayak during the summer and spend the rest of my time chasing women. So I figure a few years of ###### pay and difficult schedules and I will be back to living the way I have been. Damn CU kicks ass!

-Jason
 
I would also advise you to not major in flight. I was a flight major, but I had gotten my PPL in high school at the local FBO so I actually had some outside experience, unlike 95% of the folks at my school it seems like. After starting there I got tired of scheduling snafus, cocky instructors, many less-than-motivated fellow students, and the looks from everyone when I told them I could fly a VFR cross country without a GPS. Sure, the school has a great reputation and, no doubt great training, but it just wasn't my kind. I just plainly and simply accepted that my desires and values when it comes to flight training are different than that, and plus, it was a pretty worthless degree to boot - so I switched to the management side of things.

Just be prepared: I spend a lot of time trying to explain to my friends and peers who are still in the flight course at the university that 1)Yes, I still want to be a pilot even though I am not anymore the in "flight program" and 2)You don't need an aviation science degree to become a pilot. Sometimes I think that not many pilots-in-training are really too educated about certain aspects of their own profession. Kudos to you for seeking advice early!! :D
 
mhcasey said:
P.S. - Does anyone have any stats of girl:guy ratio at aviation colleges?
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Judging about what I hear about Riddle, it's like 1000 guys to .5 girls or something:insane: Although there was a VERY hot girl at the tours desk when I toured the Prescott campus....
 
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