Do I have to go to college to be a pastry chef?

I want to go to Culinary School to become a pastry chef...?

• I want to go to Culinary School to become a baker/ pastry chef, Do i have to go to a regular college or can i just go straight into culinary school?

• Answer:

  Make sure you do a bit of research on this career. For regular chefts that graduate there is only 1 job opening for every 40 graduates. Not sure about pastry chefts. Many, many are spending 80,000 for 4 years of college and not finding jobs. It's wonderful to take something you love in college, but before spending that kind of money, you need to make sure that you will be able to put "food on the table" when you get old. Keep researching this. There must be a TV show or something, but schools are getting flooded right now, and there is little demand for all the massing amounts of graduates...