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Here's a question CT since you seem to know a little bit more about this then most, is there ever a point where you have too much flight time and it becomes a detractor?
And if you worked full time out of HS to pay for flying lessons and then working as a CFI while doing say, Liberty University online the entire time, how is that viewed? I hear their commercials all of the time now for online courses and wonder if that's the direction we are headed given Big College has gotten out of control thanks to Big Government Students Loans. I like the idea of having some quality control in learning and online courses seems to offer that more uniformly then random GTAs and students for life professors. Disclaimer, there are a lot of stupid majors now offered in college, the real majors with job potential are still very hard like engineering, accounting... and that's it.
Well, Liberty U. is steeped in Dispensational Theology and most of the a application readers are Covenant type theology guys (or complete reprobates). j/k. Bottom line is really this: they are mining for excellence. If your application, resume, recommendation letters, and interview reveal character you go to the top of the hiring pile. They love Horatio Alger stories - seriously. They have character that is self-evident.
One of the DAL interviewers is a buddy. He had five hand delivered applications of pilots he considered "must hire" that he hand walked. One got an interview with-in a year (and was hired), three waited over a year (2/3 hired), and one yet to be called. This is a guy that DAL trusts to say yes or no on hiring, but he couldn't move those apps past where they were scored and put in the que.