Again... what's with the assumptions? I don't want to fly for a major, nor do I fly for a major, and by choosing not to finish college and, instead, gaining valuable flight experience I am now in a Boeing before most people (by age) are in an RJ (excluding the 19 year old "no experience" wonders, who, on a side note, don't belong there). My point is that by no means should the degree be an FAR requirement to hold the ATP (as some have been trying to make), purely that companies are and should be allowed to set their hiring requirements as they choose, recent legislation pushing for the ATP to fly in a 121 environment is a push in the right direction in terms of the sorts of requirements we need... my personal preference, however, is that these requirements be structured around something that weeds out poor pilots and poor decision makers, not wipes out a group of people based on largely unrelated formalities.