Well said Grass Strip Basher. The bigger issue is sometimes overlooked, such as future implications of today's financial shortcomings. OATS is good but when you have to pay for it yourself you need to think twice about justifying your actions. After all if OATS graduates were they only ones who got jobs then the other schools would be out on the ear hole in an instance.
You may indeed get the job upon or near graduation but is that really worth the extra cost in fact you could save bucket loads of money and pick up a job a little later, perhaps? We need to think about justifying the money coming from our pockets rather than FTOs justifying it for us. Fine that's what they say it costs, but what about your own personal affordability? Even if you attend the APP at OATs and get a job straight off the bat you still have a mountain of cash to payback with all the continuing constraints of life that will run parallel to that. For example relationship breakdown, loss of licence (it's doesn't just happen to the other guy), redundancy, fate .... that God forbid you fall ill.
It's somewhat similiar to those people who risk those borderline illegal 7 times mortgage deals just to get onto the property ladder and then run at their personal limit just to keep their head above the water. Though at the same time others avoid that fiasco and buy something smaller or elsewhere.
I think that OATs is a clever company that loves to impose itself upon the industry, tha's fine but we shouldn't be so easily suckered into their promises.
Just an ounce of common sense that's all.