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My experience is very dated and I'm a non-grad, so take this with a huge boulder of salt... I was an Econ major and validated a bunch of classes as a result of my senior year of HS and my year at NAPS (a long story). 1st semester English, Calc 1&2, Intro to Computing, and the biggie for a bull...

Oh the stories from the olden days of doing that in McDonough Hall....

I wasn't smart like @Old Navy BGO to date a Salve Regina girl while at NAPS. Kept up the long distance romance with a Brooklyn "wild child" that I met on a trip to France during my senior year of HS. She was big into the music scene, so saw some great acts back then at those two clubs and some...

Old enough to have been at both the Mudd Club and CBGB

Wife is a Brown alum and I've spent a fair amount of time on campus with her. A few thoughts for you.... My recollection is that the Brown NROTC unit is at Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. Not exactly close to Providence, so think about the logistics associated with that for four years. Brown is...

I seem to recall cigars as well....

Some of us are old enough to remember signing up for "mainframe" time at 3am because that's the only time it was available for students. And yes - I can still operate a keypunch machine.

Pearl to Newport - that's some trade. Order some long johns!

Reality isn't that different with other top tier schools. Oldest who is an off the charts math guy got deferred EA than rejected at MIT. Would it have been nicer for them to just reject him in December instead of waiting until March? Of course. He got a regular decision courtesy wait list...

Mistakes happen. I spent a year at NAPS because of a clerical error with my medical (in the paper days....). Definitely worth a call to dig deeper.

Bob had a predecessor.... https://nwhof.org/hall_of_fame/bio/104

Habemus pleberum

My late father-in-law served with Queen Victoria's Own Madras Sappers & Miners in Burma during 1944/1945. The colonial days when the Indian Army still had British officers.

To this day, I'm convinced that the script writers for "Coming to America" spent time in the 8th Wing barbershop in the early 80s. My grandfather was a professional featherweight boxer in NYC in the late 30s. Watched all kinds of old fights with him as a kid on black & white 8mm. Mr. Johnson...

Ski from our class the perfect example.

Many MOC offices have a staffer who is responsible for the service academy nomination process. If you are that curious, you can always call that person to see if they will give you any color on the number of applicants for each service academy for say the past three years. Draw your own...

That's only because your drinking skills weren't as highly developed as some of your peers.....

A single data point, but one of my middle son's HS classmates was a total disaster as a USNA plebe (didn't make it through the year and from all reports has continued to spiral in the wrong direction). Has had no impact on the school's ability to place qualified candidates in the intervening years.

Are the Laws of the Navy still plebe knowledge? This stanza is good lifelong advice: Take heed what ye say of your seniors, Be your words spoken softly or plain, Lest a bird of the air tell the matter, And so ye shall hear it again.

I'd say 50-60% of the nomination applicants that I see for my MOC have a STEM "hole" like this on their transcript. Have a good explanation for what happened, lessons learned, and how you developed strategies to improve. And as @usna1985 said, do everything that you can to have As/high Bs for...