Okay so this thread was started and has been added on to by quite a few newbies and your inexperience in the industry is shinning through. Sit back, drink some kool aid and get ready for some real cold hard information.
First lets address the whole flight academy/riddle/RAA: They through a lot of "facts" out that may or may not be true. Some of them are correct, only vastly spun to appear to be something magical. The people who feed you this information are from the recruiting office, and believe it or not they are RECRUITERS, who work on commission, and will tell you anything you want to hear. What they fail to tell you is about the very small subject group they are talking about. There are FAR more UND grads and Perdue grads and so forth at the airlines than there are RAA grads, and they got hired with low if not lower minimums than the RAA guys got. So in closing they dont tell you what other schools are doing, because they probably dont want you to know.
Go get another glass of kool aid, more to come.......I need to find some comparative numbers