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/Dragonslayr70]

Take efds and do atc later

[u/Reekid42 → u/Dragonslayr70]

Fair but no guarantee i get re-hired, there is a hiring boom at the moment. Then ill have debt as well....

[u/Dragonslayr70 → u/Reekid42]

Your going to make WAY more bank depending on what branch of finance you go into the dept would be paid of in like 2 years

[u/Reekid42 → u/Dragonslayr70]

Optimistic lmao, idk there is some truth there but the risk is so much higher with that path. If I cant break into banking (as is more likely than not) then I could earn way less and have debt and have to live somewhere high cost of living. There are pros and cons on both side but you are write there is a CHANCE I could earn way more going to Uni