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    Future Mail Man Stalkers Unite!

    A CG scholar is someone who goes through a year of prep school prior to heading into the academy. There are lots of reasons they go to prep school, they didn't take the right classes in high school, they had to too many qualified applicants, etc. The school is paid for, and they are paid (a...
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    A "what are my chances?" question

    the applicant pool changes from year-to-year. i got in w/ a 29, 3.75, tennis, and a few leadership roles in my clubs. i thought i didn't have much chance, my parents thought it was a lock. i got it after turning my end at the deadling in march. on the other hand 2013 is supposed to be the next...
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    Swab Summer Tips

    IT is Incentive Training (I'm pretty sure that's what it's short for) cadre use it as a punishment, or rather an incentive to do things right, when you're not performing up to standard. and amongst our class, that's what we've heard, that next year they can't personally IT swabs...but BR2011...
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    Swab Summer Tips

    there's still morning cals, but not just on the parade field; last year they were done parade field, lower field, and 5th deck, it was a rotation, that focused on different exercises. and a lot of my classmates have been discussing the no personal IT, just as a group...
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    Swab Summer Tips

    oh yea and some of the swab are actually older than the cadre
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    Swab Summer Tips

    word is this year they can't personally IT you, it has to be a group. And rifle IT can't last longer than 8 minutes! So when you lying at attention with the rifle at port arms above your body and you're holding one of your shipmate's rifle too, know that it's almost over. And the only time we...
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    Swab Summer Tips

    1) Don't write Cadet or Swab on mail. They don't have to be called Swab, but if the cadre get the mail, they might be a little teased for getting called Cadet, although it's not a big deal. (And they'll get called Swab enough w/o everyone back home calling them it, too.) 2) Send their...
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