Originally Posted by
slowplay
Serious question. Do you know many SSP candidates without a degree that didn't have other significant differentiators (LCA, Instructor, management, volunteerism, etc.) that got the job? I'm told by my friends at Endeavor that the initial SSP's had a very low success rate and that the rate is currently around 50%. They're not exactly high on the SSP process.
Right now most of the other candidates have all those boxes checked plus the four year degree. My point is why the extreme emphasis on where, what kind and what was your gpa, when not all candidates have to have it. I don't believe a 4year degree makes you a better pilot, however it does show that you wanted to be a Delta pilot as it has, at least in recent history, been a hard requirement.