To address some of the things said about the degree being worthless for me, it isn’t. I do not have a BA yet. After I had started two semesters in I did believe it was worthless, but now with new legislation (such as the restrictive ATP) it does seem to carry a bit more weight. While I feel like its “weight” needs a little work, I do feel it is a growing degree that will someday carry more weight.

In addition, someone had mentioned that life doesn’t work out the way you plan. I am no stranger to this in both my personal and professional life. Currently, I work as a paramedic. I am a critical care paramedic and am pretty happy in the medical field as well. If this did not work out, I could always work as a paramedic. In fact, I intend to keep my paramedic license up for just that very reason—it’ll always be a backup. Furthermore, if I decide aviation is not for me in any capacity, for one reason or another, I could always consider going to PA school. My girlfriend is in Medical School, and PA school works very similarly. In that, you can have ANY BA degree. My girlfriend is currently in a class with someone who has a BA in “History of Modern Arts.” People oftentimes think that to go to Med/PA School you need a “pre-med” degree when, in fact, you don’t. So considering I don’t have any BA degree at this moment, no other degrees really interest me, and to further my medical training should I go that route will not be directly affected by this degree, I don’t see it as a detriment.


I know you may see this as a read flag, but it really isn’t. To graduate, you have hour minimums you need to acquire for the BA. So the hours are actually PART of the degree. So when I apply for a loan to help pay for my flight time too graduate, I obviously have to have the money I borrow working TOWARD the degree. If I were to be going to a BA in, say, Art, and then was like “By the way, I need 30K to fly as well” I don’t know any bank that would give you a school loan for that—as it’s not directly related to school. This isn’t a school thing, but a bank thing. Maybe there is something I’m missing about this that you can point out?