good god....did you actually think that I meant any of that when you read my post? My comment about the college choice was in reference to another post about Purdue turning out a lot of SNA/SNFO's.....I meant that b/c there is a big aviation program at Purdue, it probably attracts a lot of pilot wannabes who in turn choose (what I meant by "select") SNA when they get their chance. Never said a damn thing about your school having ANY relevance to what you actually end up getting in your service selection, and I certainly wouldn't. Also, I never said anything about him needing to be a "rocket scientist engineer"...in fact my comment about technical majors being an advantage was meant as a HUGE "if" (see the part about actually needing to do well in engineering for it to have ANY benefit). For the original poster (so he isn't mislead by what I said) all of the other guys who chose SNA from my class were liberal arts majors with the exception of me. @ Noseman, maybe your class was especially dedicated....my experience has not been the same as yours. It's not that it is especially HARD to get selected for pilot (at least from what I have observed at my unit and on this board)....it is the fact that you have to make it through the program first, and at my school, there were A LOT of dropouts or guys who just changed their mind. That was ALL that I was trying to convey to our incoming freshman. He may get a year into the program and decide that it isn't what he wants to do.....so he should not get ahead of himself and start worrying about choosing a school based on its percentage of students who get SNA/SNFO. And I think I said that my class had about 80% change their mind about being a pilot (or quit).....certainly not implying that this was some hard and fast statistic.
so basically take the opposite of everything you think I said in the last post, and that is what I meant......because apparently I am taking crazy pills.
