Pulse: Check
Money: Check
Undeserved sense of being better than everybody because of the school you attended: Check

I kid, I kid I fly with a lot of Purdue grads and they're fine people.

I was accepted there with a 3.5 gpa and a 27 on the ACT in 2000. I had a job but didn't do anything else in high school. The price tag and lack of scholarship money for out of state students made me look elsewhere. I would also consider a second degree in something as far away from aviation as possible.