I'll out myself as another UND person and give my perspective. At UND you deffinitly learn a lot of procedural and technical information that you may not get in GA in a shorter timeframe- however that does NOT necessarily make you a better pilot! For instance - in my MEI groundschool there were people arguing about exactly how many PSI the gear system works at on the high pressure and low pressure sides in a seminole - is that important? no it really isn't - its important to know the operational concept (gear unsafe light flickering in flight, possible leakage, system failure etc) but the important thing is if it breaks when you're departing, enroute or at the FAF how can you tell its malfunctioning and what can you do about it? THATS ALL! (making generalizations) I enjoyed my time at UND but realize many come out of there with tunnel vision. I have heard from many other pilots say that UND guys are great at flying a profile, procedure, or taking a test - but get them in the air with an abnormal situation and they don't know what to do. There can be a lot said about building time in those 250 hours without the constraints of a syllabus and flying more solo hours and learning by expirience or flying with different CFI's who have not had the same syllabus blinders on for their entire flight career as well. I'm doing single pilot 135 now and learning FAR more in a much shorter time than I did while in "the UND bubble." All that said - UND is a great school, I'd recommend it - but don't be in too much of a hurry - realize your possible shortcomings and advantages wherever you come from and go get some varied expirience, have fun, and be humble.