Please give advice, WASHU or Millitary then COP

I was accepted into Washu Olin a couple of weeks ago and even though it's great I've been wanting to become a homicide detective since I was a kid and am thinking about joining the military for 4 years then becoming a cop but I'm extremely torn mainly because of money. Everyone wants a porsche and a 3m home with rich kids but having that as a cop is basically impossible. Any perspectives would be great...

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There's not many people on here who actually have a passion for this job or for any career really, if being a detective is what you really want to do I'd say go for it, everybody is in finance for the money but in the end that doesn't fulfill you in any way, like another poster said I would go join the military, get school paid for and then evaluate options, keep in mind the military is a bureaucratic grind that can wear you down but it's also a place where you make lifelong friends and some people come to love that world

 

WashU is a great school, but WashU will not disappear anytime soon and your youth will. You could go to the military from 18-22, take some community college courses online while there, either reapply to colleges or see if WashU can defer your acceptance for 4 years (I know 2 is possible for sure but 4 may be pushing it). Then, go to college and study criminal justice and business (your GEs will be done, so much easier to double major) and then take it from there. The USA is the greatest country on Earth and wanting to pay back this privilege by serving is a beautiful, venerable deed.

 

Go to college.

You beat 88% of applicants to get into a great school, but more importantly going vs. not going to college is shown repeatedly to put you on a vastly different life track in so many socioeconomic and other aspects.

ROTC is a great option to get college paid for and serve as an officer, and not difficult to get a scholarship for someone who got into a good school like WashU. Lots of people enlist after a degree, especially into special operations. And college will unlock other LE opportunities like the FBI.

So many people change their minds 18-22, and it's too early (imo) to forgo the massive advantages of further education.

 

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