MissAviator,
Do you have a university degree? If not, get one.
Second, don't stop with the CPL/ME/IR rating. Get your CFI's as well. Just out of flight school with 250 hours under your belt you will be very hard pressed to find single engine piston work.
When you hit the 500-700 hour mark you may be lucky and be able to do someting along the lines flying for a skydiving company or doing banner towing or aerial surveying.
Remember, if you want to go to the regionals, you will have to have your ATP. In the States we don't have anything called a Frozen ATPL (which is just a commercial certificate).
With that being said, I would choose a school based on whether or not I could find employment with them as a CFI after training was done.
Good luck!