Recent content by bandad

Look on the bright side, I believe you are one AP test score of 4 or 5 away, based on what you do your senior year, from being a National AP Scholar and that would be great for your resume! See rules below - https://apstudents.collegeboard.org/awards-recognitions/ap-scholar-award For USNA, as...

It has been a long time since I have been on and I really enjoyed and learned so much from my time spent here in the past. My wife and I went to our local send off picnic last month and it was exciting to see the Plebes to be. DS graduated 17, Engineering Major, VGEP, gone through Power...

Not Marines related, but I understand there is no VGEP funding for '17 USNA VGEPers as well (for a total savings of "up to" $220K). If I am reading the tea leaves correctly from afar, it sounds like grad school options are being diminished, and the focus is to get grads to the Corp/Fleet. Not...

http://www.usna.edu/Admissions/classPortrait/ The Educational Background link shows 102 mids with some college for the class of 19. I am guessing that most, but not necessarily all, of these are reapplicants. And 102 does not include NAPS or Foundation.

At PPW three years ago, we brought my wife's 81 year old mother. She was in relatively good health and was not a problem, and DS had a 630AM Report Time to boot. Grandmother would not have missed it for the world. We did bring a wheelchair for her (which she very rarely uses even three years...

DS had an LOA and was medically disqualified after his physical. We were told by another SA parent to promptly take him to a specialist, get retested, and resubmit the results to DODMERB. We did that and today he is a 2C. I don't know whether the LOA made a difference or not...

Plebes that are high class validators (guessing a semester ahead or more) select their majors in Fall semester.

The Capital Gazette football recruiting wrap up listed two players from the Birmingham area the first of Feb. I know of two others from the greater Birmingham area. Waiting to hear on others...

nuensis - sent you a PM

two potentially good times to visit are the weekends after 6 week and 12 week exams. Also, when we visited, we usually left our mid by lunch on Sunday to give him a chance to catch up whether we had an early flight or not...

A few months ago, my DW heard from a friend here in town, who is a current USNA Softball player's mom, that Navy Softball may be moving up to D1. It sounds like it might be more wishful thinking, but if I hear anything more concrete, I will post...

Yes, 12th grade teachers work too! DS asked for and received rec's from 12th grade math and english teachers. He met with them early in the school year, explained the situation and timeline, and after a couple of months in school to give them time to evaluate my DS, they wrote the recs... The...

USNA2020 DS was split between USNA and USAFA a few years ago. He split his #1's between our two US senators, and went USNA #1 and USAFA #2 for our US Rep. Our state is somewhat competitive but not as competitive as Maryland. Not sure what I would have told my DS if he was in your shoes. I...

Thanks Navy Hoops and I always appreciate your thoughts.

My DS took several AP classes his senior year. The scores were posted after Plebe Summer I believe, and he was able to validate some classes with his scores. So yes the AP scores become part of your file. And congrats on your 5!