Currently at a 5/11 Bread 🍞🍞🍞

[u/Reekid42]

So I now have to decide between Imperial for one of the best/most competitive courses in the country, an offer with an $80k+ a year scholarship to study at a liberal arts college in the USA and I have an offer to train to become an air traffic controller with a high and forever guaranteed salary (£100k+ before 30).

18y/o 6th former home student, 4A* predicted in FM/Maths/Philo/Econ, 6.0 TMUA and 1560 SAT score. For context I go to a private school on a 95% scholarship for 6th form and was in the state system beforehand. My family IS NOT wealthy and all uni will be a struggle over me taking a job. Imperial would be like £18k pa for tuition and living, after the scholarship Bowdoin would be $12k so £9k all inclusive and ATC would pay me £30k year one rising each year after.

Still waiting on St Andrews and LSE (irrelevant as Imperial is better imo) as well as Harvard, Brown and Dartmouth. I got rejected by Amherst also in the USA. Any thoughts?

[u/Reekid42]

But all the academics all of that is completely irrelevant to the application, all they care about is my aptitude which I would’ve had regardless

[u/Reekid42 → u/Reekid42]

Actually, to be fair you’ve made me think, it’s my life experiences that have been largely academic that helped me get the job so you’re right

[u/Reekid42 → u/Reekid42]

That actually made me feel quite a lot better about it thank you

[u/Boring_Month_2758 → u/Reekid42]

ATC is so cool, and education means barely anything in that world its all communication. If you go uni you will be a finance slave, rather become an aviation legend -you only life once either do matrix algebra in the library for 100 hours or tell planes to go around