Originally Posted by
TED74
Where are you getting this information? Sure, we'd all agree the former may not be preferable over the latter. But from what I THINK I've learned about Delta's app scoring (which determines to some degree the timing of an invite or complete lack of one), it ABSOLUTELY favors an on-time graduation over a delayed one. If you know otherwise, correct me. But false hopes don't do anyone any good...how to get an interview is a completely different matter than how to pass one.
The dry points only system does favor 4 year graduates to some degree because points are blind and that's what it measures.
But they can also see if you worked your way through or not and will ask all about it in an interview. Its just points, and its not the end all factor. Plenty of CJO's have gone to people with several "red flags" or lower point value aspects of their app. A lower app score doesn't mean it won't result in an interview.
They ask precisely about this in the interview. 100%. Its not a deal breaker. Same for tickets. Yes tickets are a negative. But tons of pilots get hired with tickets, many with multipile and recent tickets. The point system doesn't mean one negative and you're buried in tier 4.
Daddy's boy at the party school getting a degree in trust fund science in 4 years may go ahead of the 5 year work your way through full time 2 job holding self starter in the points system, but will lose points where it counts in the interview. PLENTY of pilots are getting hired right now that took longer than 4 years as well as many other "red flags" and if their total app has plusses that overcome the minuses they will get interviews and CJO's over many, many, many 4 year on the dot degrees.