I agree that ATP is a complete con and a giant disservice to professional aviation. I could go on rant after rant on how it does very little to prepare its students for anything other than the absolute minimum standard. I'm not even going to get into the wonderful indentured servitude program they offer.

On the other hand, to completely deny any candidate primarily because they went to ATP without evaluating their personal knowledge and abilities is petty. I know a few guys who went there. After talking with and flying with them, it was clear that they were very intelligent and obviously studied hard on their own because they were better than many of the CFI Univeristy (ERAU) instructors that I'd flown with.