[OldTownPilot]

If I was you, I'd seriously look at a state school that has a good sports medicine or sports management program, and find a good FBO near there. Get your ratings done, and by the time you are in your last year of school try your hardest to get an instructing gig at that FBO to pay your bills. In the end you'll be in the same spot hours wise as going to the aviation colleges, with a heck of a lot less debt. Plus if the flying thing doesn't work out you'll have a degree in something that you have experience in that isn't flying airplanes.