April is a great month!

I don't believe there is a vast misconception that NAPS is taking the short bus to USNA. I have not encountered that perception on this board or elsewhere. I don't think that was the perception of the poster who asked a question about the admissions/decision making process or the poster who responded with something that the BGO said.

I agree that those offered NAPs have special qualities that the academy wants and is willing to invest in them to help them be academicaly successful at USNA. Thank goodness they do! Our country and Navy are the better for it.

That is not to say that those triple qualified applicants don't also have special qualities. They do.

The fact is that USNA attracts thousands of very special applicants willing to sacrifice a traditional college life for a military one. USNA gets to decide who gets offered an appointment to the academy and NAPS. Those of us on the outside may wonder at the process, especially when our children wanted it just as badly as Hannah 1212.

Good luck to the class of 2013, the NAPS class of 2010, and all the applicants who didn't get the news they wanted this year.
 
TWE

TWE in the mail today
It was mailed on the 16th.
The wait has been very very long, but I'm not disappointed, I'm going to Valley Forge Military College next year through the Foundation:wink:.

Good luck to all who have been accepted, and especially to all those who will try again next year.

Go NAVY!
 
mpkn said:
I don't believe there is a vast misconception that NAPS is taking the short bus to USNA. I have not encountered that perception on this board or elsewhere. I don't think that was the perception of the poster who asked a question about the admissions/decision making process or the poster who responded
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Agree to disagree I guess.
 
mpkn said:
I don't believe there is a vast misconception that NAPS is taking the short bus to USNA. I have not encountered that perception on this board or elsewhere. I don't think that was the perception of the poster who asked a question about the admissions/decision making process or the poster who responded with something that the BGO said.

I agree that those offered NAPs have special qualities that the academy wants and is willing to invest in them to help them be academicaly successful at USNA. Thank goodness they do! Our country and Navy are the better for it.

That is not to say that those triple qualified applicants don't also have special qualities. They do.

The fact is that USNA attracts thousands of very special applicants willing to sacrifice a traditional college life for a military one. USNA gets to decide who gets offered an appointment to the academy and NAPS. Those of us on the outside may wonder at the process, especially when our children wanted it just as badly as Hannah 1212.

Good luck to the class of 2013, the NAPS class of 2010, and all the
mpkn said:
I don't believe there is a vast misconception that NAPS is taking the short bus to USNA. I have not encountered that perception on this board or elsewhere. I don't think that was the perception of the poster who asked a question about the admissions/decision making process or the poster who responded with something that the BGO said.

I agree that those offered NAPs have special qualities that the academy wants and is willing to invest in them to help them be academicaly successful at USNA. Thank goodness they do! Our country and Navy are the better for it.

That is not to say that those triple qualified applicants don't also have special qualities. They do.

The fact is that USNA attracts thousands of very special applicants willing to sacrifice a traditional college life for a military one. USNA gets to decide who gets offered an appointment to the academy and NAPS. Those of us on the outside may wonder at the process, especially when our children wanted it just as badly as Hannah 1212.

Good luck to the class of 2013, the NAPS class of 2010, and all the applicants who didn't get the news they wanted this year.
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mpkn, I completely agree with you. Congratulations to the NAPSters and the Foundation appointees. I have close friends who had kids in both programs who went on the the USNA and very successful careers. One is now in the SEAL program.

Hannah1212 and NorthernCalMom, my son wanted an appointment just as much as you did. He was triple Q'd with 2 nominations in December. He is now wait-listed and I have a right to question the process because I don't understand it. I am sure that there are many of us left wondering about the specifics of the the appointment process. He's moved on to Plan B, and it's a plan with a wonderful future and a Marine commissioning at the end of his college career.

Hannah1212, congratulations on your NAPS appointment and we get your point... You chose to take offense to one post in 25 pages worth of positive messages...and that poster apologized for his poor choice of words...QUOTE]
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It was actually a culmination of things I chose to take offense to that I didn't post on this board to keep confrontation to a minimum. You have a right to question, and I actually was one of the first posters to answer to help the originial poster figure out the process of NAPS. "dummie" stung more than it should, however, and it was not the first time I'd heard that. So I added my opinion. Why should 25 pages of positive comments be off-set by one?

Agree to disagree.
 
Lucky is the Plebe that has a NAPS'tr or prior service as a roommate. They are all way ahead of the game. Daughter's room was made up immediately by one Marine prior. Some of her best friends from Plebe Summer are NAPS and prior service. NAPS do tend to gravitate with families on I-Day but then again they have bonded for a year. Priors also have some great "chest candy". Have seen some Purple Hearts.
 
HANNAH1212 said:
It was actually a culmination of things I chose to take offense to that I didn't post on this board to keep confrontation to a minimum. You have a right to question, and I actually was one of the first posters to answer to help the originial poster figure out the process of NAPS. "dummie" stung more than it should, however, and it was not the first time I'd heard that. So I added my opinion. Why should 25 pages of positive comments be off-set by one?

Agree to disagree.
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Anyone who makes it to NAPS or is selected for a Foundation school is in an elite group, and the unfortunate comment made by an earlier poster no more applies to a member of that group than it does to any student at a top-ranked school. I think that most, if not all, of the candidates who received the TWE would love to be in your shoes. :thumb: I know my son would.

This is my last post on this forum; my son has accepted his NROTC scholarship and is moving on. Congratulations and the very best of luck to all USNA, NAPS, and Foundation appointees!
 
Ditto NHUSNAhopeful! And best wishes to all those students entering NROTC programs!
 
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