Ft. Wayne Flight Academy's ground school course is an excellent prep for your first sem. at Purdue if you dont end up getting your Private before school starts... I took her ground course and when i got to Purdue, the ground school was a piece of cake, and that helped me tremendously with flying, since i didnt have to wait until the ground school covered something to understand it, my instructor and i could skip forward as much as possible since i had had previous expierience with the topics, i would reccomend having SOME expierience even if you never set foot in an airplane before going to school...