Rosstafari Daaaang. Seattle

By the way, your bachelor's degree means next to nothing to the FAA if you're applying to become a controller. When you apply as an OTS (off the street) candidate, you'll be grouped together with everyone else who's trying to get in the door without any ATC background. The primary method they'll evaluate you is your score on the above-mentioned AT-SAT -- and even then it really just places you in one of two hiring groups -- with everything else as a secondary consideration.

Patrick wasn't joking, there isn't anything you can do to help things "move along". The FAA hires people according to their own schedule, and it's a very, very slow one. As an OTS applicant, you'll be waiting over a year. I started May last year and just this week finally did my interview. It'll be until at least October for me to even begin training at the Academy. It's a long process, so be prepared to have some other means of income in the meantime.

Regarding the possibility of going to a CTI school, there are other threads that address that, so no need to repeat it here. Just browse the ATC Employment subforum for a little bit and you'll find plenty.