Reply to meet EA deadline or earn private pilot certificate?

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "meet EA deadline or earn private pilot certificate?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD really wanted to use her pilot certificate on college applications, but she won't turn 17 and thus be eligible for her checkride until after most if not all EA deadlines of the schools she's interested are past. I know it can depend on the school, but in general, which is more important: [b]having that box checked[/b] or applying EA?[/quote]

I think this is a misconception.  Schools are interested in her, the person. I would think what is more interesting is Why does she fly?  Why is this important to her?  What has she learned by doing so?  What will having done this, bring to the school community?  Doing in thing is great, but the questions to address and convey is the ability to answer &quot;So what?&quot;  In that, I dont know that the certification is as important as the other questions.

That said, I agree with the above comments that EA is probably the better that waiting in many circumstance, but will depend on the school.  Many schools, cough (Harvard), defers just about everyone.  So you could still put in an app, most likely be deferred, and can send an update that she got her certification for RD consideration.

Net, I would imagine any bump for EA &gt; pilot certification.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics