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I haven't posted on here in ages.. I mostly just lurk on occasion. Since this thread has veered into a general discussion about how information gets disclosed to USMA, I felt the need to post on this. And although I suspect it has been said before, I also know that SA Forums thrives on...

My family and I offer our deepest condolensces to the Lambka family for their loss. Please be assured that there are many keeping you in their thoughts and prayers as you go through this difficult process of losing a fine young man like Todd.

Our sincere and deepest condolensces to the Jacobs family for your loss. There clearly are no words to say upon losing a fine young man like Sean, except to say that my family and I have you in our thoughts and prayers.

I know zero about the military, but DS is USMA Class of 2016, currently in CBT. I can tell you that one of the reasons he chose USMA was specifically for the intense and grueling aspects of the CBT and plebe year experience. The squared-away discipline appealed to him immensely -- we had not...

I suppose it could be intentionally designed as the first step in training on the concept of "Hurry up and wait". :smile:

I'm sure one of the truly knowledgable regulars / USMA insiders on here will respond, but my take is: Call admissions and ask them. Better safe than sorry because if it matters then you should be the one to tell them. If you don't tell them, they may likely find out anyway and then you will...

We were told straight out by a member of USMA Admissions, at an information session in the fall: You will DQ if you have corrective eye surgery at any point between DoDMERB certification and R-Day. Period. His exact words (I actually wrote them down in my notebook at the time): "We don't...

Same here. Our dentist is an old Navy man who, once he heard back in the Fall that DS was targeting West Point, he insisted that all 4 wisdom teeth get proactively removed. (One wisdom tooth was clearly going to need it done soon anyway, but the rest were in 'wait and see' status up until...

Thanks for setting the record straight on this.

It's funny how USMA is so many things to so many people, depending on what angle one is looking from. I always thought of USMA as an engineering school, since its Engineering gets such high marks from those "ranking" lists. But it is, of course, at its heart a Liberal Arts college. No, wait...

If you watch the Nat'l Geographic DVD series "Surviving West Point" (which IMO should be required viewing for all candidates, since it contains so much perspective on what to expect at WP), you'll note at least one cadet who works a job during his winter break -- working for a construction...

Yes, numbers we heard at an appointee info session recently seem to align with the numbers being posted on here, which indicate: Applicant pool for USMA 2016 up from 14000 to 15500 ==> ~ 10% increase in applicants Class size for 2016 down from 1275 to 1150 ==> ~ 10% decrease in...

I think I saw those in Amsterdam once. :biggrin:

THIS.

Thanks to all who have continued to reply... it seems the answer to my question is, as expected , "It depends". So in that sense it seems like it's pretty much the same story as if DS attended a civilian school, in terms of the logistics and likelihood of him getting home. These answers have...

I don't know if the D will be an issue or not, but at the very least you should be prepared to answer the question "Why did you end up with a D in AP Chemistry?" if it is asked.

That was a dirty crack. :redface:

Welcome to "Portal Lag". You'll stop worrying about it as you go through the process of applying, etc. Until the "FINAL" update, of course. That one seemed to take forever and DS was on there every 4 hours in the end, hitting "F5" like a madman.

Hi raidermom2012: I wish your son luck, and it sounds like he has some SA options which is good. If USMA was his #1 choice, then sorry to see it playing out this way. At USMA and the other SAs, given the competitiveness of the application process, many of the candidiates open their...

Thank you both for the replies. Yes, we're in the Northeast, so it's about half a day's travel each way by bus/train/auto. Glad to know that he will potentially have that option.