I have now read this thread through, and it has given me food for thought. I myself am 18 years old, will be 19 this summer, and is at the last term of the Gymnasium, it is Danish, (im from Denmark) and equivalent to Hight school i gues. Here I have English at A level, and both Mathematics and Physics at the B trough levels, where I get rigtight good grades.
Here, to February Im going to Gatwick to get my JAA Class 1 Initial Medical and FAA Class 1 Initial Medical, to be sure I can become a pilot.
But when I'm done with school this summer, I am unsure about my approach. I was sure that I, as Lew747 wrote, would work for about 2 years while my friends are at university and then go to the USA, to become a pilot at Phoenix East Aviation due to their Scandinavian program.
So I considered going to university, but decided it was a bad idea, because it's not free, in the sence that I'll have to leave home, pay for an apartment, and may borrow money, which you wrote, can destroy my financial foundation for becoming a pilot.
But still think most of you that it pays of to have a university education, when you want to train as a pilot?
Greetings from a worried Danish soul.