Originally Posted by
BoilerUP
Purdue is a fantastic school (I am biased), with a much smaller flight program (only 75 students admitted per year) than any of your other 3 "preferred" schools. Its also a HELL of a lot warmer in winter than UND or WMU, and while very much a midwestern Big 10 school, let's just say the male-female student ratio is substantially better than ERAU.
1 hour drive from Indy, <3hr drive from Chicago if you want to go to a "big city".
The entire aviation program (flight, management & maintenance) is about 600 total students out of 38,000 undergrads; I think that provides a diversity of the collegiate experience that is difficult to match unless at a school of comparable size.
Again, I am biased...but any of those schools can provide you with your ratings and an excellent college education.
Good luck!
I agree with you about Purdue, heck if I get accepted there I won't even consider the other schools. I am a big fan of the Boilermakers, especially in Football. I love how it's not only an aviation school but even though it's not it still maintains a great flight program. The only problem is getting accepted since they only accept about 70 students per year.
With a 3.9 I don't think I will have a problem. It's the only school that I am sure I want to go to now. But I need to have safeties, and that's where Embry Riddle comes in.