Originally Posted by
TallFlyer
While your analogy to your sister contains a bit of truth, it's also true to say that it doesn't take a 6 figure undergraduate degree to excel in that field. In time one's list of contacts and demo reel will have a lot more value than a high priced education. Basically I'm saying she could've gotten a 4 year journalism degree from an in-state, public university and accomplished the same thing.
Compare that to being a pilot, where the cost to get your commercial + three CFI tickets is pretty much a given.
Yeah, as she tells me, a lot of big markets "prefer" that you have the big ticket degrees - Syracuse, Northwestern, ASU - much the way many of our peers think ERAU is a guarantee to success.
We all could have taken more cost effective paths to get to our desired destinations. But hindsight is always...as you know...something we all b!tch about.