Originally Posted by
DALMD88FO
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.
OTS apps are different from the SSP because Delta has the employee records of the SSP candidates. The degree is one of the tools used to verify the unknown quality of the candidate, whereas with the SSP, Delta knows the quality of the candidate directly.