After high school, I began flight training that summer. It was awesome! I went to a flight school (not FBO, not University). I got all my ratings through commercial, but took a few college courses (online and traditional) during my full-time endeavor at the flight school. I wasn't a full-time college student. Now I'm at the sophomore status, just as are those people I graduated with, and am working as a flight instructor and going to college full-time. I am still getting the college experience, but now I don't have to worry about working on getting my ratings at the same time as school. I made it so that I could focus completely on those ratings first, and now I can focus completely on college. The degree I'm seeking is non-aviation related to have something to fall back on in the case of another decline in the industry. As a side note, I was originally seeking an aviation degree but decided against it so that I could have a back up plan. So far so good and if I could do it all over again, I would!!! The same way!!! (Just maybe with a different flight school, I can't say the flight school I picked was top notch...more like bottom of the barrel) Be careful when picking a flight school. It can end up biting you in the butt...