College Student Reapplicant

With your background, I would think you would be a strong candidate. Only very rarely are mids allowed to go CEC out of USNA, usually due to a medical DQ or other unusual circumstance. If you enjoy civil engineering, want to be a Navy officer, this is a great way to go. They also have a great Seabee community warfare pin. Look closely for the armed Bee.

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My DD was a college reapplicant and is now part of the Class of 2019. She received an LOA dated 9 Feb. Her appointment was contingent on the update of the DODMERB form. The LOA and DODMERB form crossed in the mail; she had been out of the country most of January and so didn't get it updated earlier.
I’ll be a college reapplicant this upcoming candidate cycle for the class of 2026 any advice that helped strengthen her second application?
 
Nice to hear that re-applying is part of his Plan B. I applied 3 times (means 2 years of college) and in a gross miscarriage of justice (according to my Plebe summer detailer), the Admissions Board let me in. His academic plan is good and follows exactly what the Academy wants, however, and this is only my personal opinion, I would highly discourage him from joining the Corps at Texas A&M. Not because it is a bad road or anything against the Aggie Corps but to go through TWO plebe years is too much. If he wants to go A&M or any other SMC, he should make that his chosen path and kiss USNA goodbye because he has an equally rigorous military education ahead of him. I can assure you he will not get any leadership opportunities as a Fish any more than a USNA Plebe gets leadership opportunities which is below zero. In the leadership lab of both schools the first year is taking orders and following them.......ask any Plebe. The only thing that leads is their nose.

Two Plebe years is not only incredible misery and needless stress but counterproductive. Nothing more is learned after the first Plebe year as the individual now has the values, knowledge, and behaviors that the institution wants for them to move on to the next stages of becoming an officer. It is time to move up. Repeating it is meaningless and terrible for a young man's morale because the guys he bonded with initially and who are looking forward to the future together, your son would now leave. He would put on another uniform and do it all over again and I would bet cold cash he would be burned out and his attitude would well show it. I saw exactly this phenomena in a classmate of mine who was a great friend but after a military boarding school and a Plebe year, he was sick of rank and the military and to our regret, he bailed out his Youngster year.

Actually, this all may well be a moot point as usually after a first year at a SMC, the young man usually voluntarily dumps any thoughts of a service academy and after his SMC graduation he wants to get on to the business of driving tanks or flying airplanes or whatever fired him up to be an officer in the first place.

By the way, there is nothing wrong with his high school leadership. But if he is concerned about this, there are FAR more organizations he can shine in at a civilian college.
How’d you do it?! college reapplicant for this upcoming cycle
 
Nice to hear that re-applying is part of his Plan B. I applied 3 times (means 2 years of college) and in a gross miscarriage of justice (according to my Plebe summer detailer), the Admissions Board let me in. His academic plan is good and follows exactly what the Academy wants, however, and this is only my personal opinion, I would highly discourage him from joining the Corps at Texas A&M. Not because it is a bad road or anything against the Aggie Corps but to go through TWO plebe years is too much. If he wants to go A&M or any other SMC, he should make that his chosen path and kiss USNA goodbye because he has an equally rigorous military education ahead of him. I can assure you he will not get any leadership opportunities as a Fish any more than a USNA Plebe gets leadership opportunities which is below zero. In the leadership lab of both schools the first year is taking orders and following them.......ask any Plebe. The only thing that leads is their nose.

Two Plebe years is not only incredible misery and needless stress but counterproductive. Nothing more is learned after the first Plebe year as the individual now has the values, knowledge, and behaviors that the institution wants for them to move on to the next stages of becoming an officer. It is time to move up. Repeating it is meaningless and terrible for a young man's morale because the guys he bonded with initially and who are looking forward to the future together, your son would now leave. He would put on another uniform and do it all over again and I would bet cold cash he would be burned out and his attitude would well show it. I saw exactly this phenomena in a classmate of mine who was a great friend but after a military boarding school and a Plebe year, he was sick of rank and the military and to our regret, he bailed out his Youngster year.

Actually, this all may well be a moot point as usually after a first year at a SMC, the young man usually voluntarily dumps any thoughts of a service academy and after his SMC graduation he wants to get on to the business of driving tanks or flying airplanes or whatever fired him up to be an officer in the first place.

By the way, there is nothing wrong with his high school leadership. But if he is concerned about this, there are FAR more organizations he can shine in at a civilian college.
How did you do it? I’ll be a college reapplicant this upcoming cycle and will have my AA in the fall. Planning on transferring to a local university afterwards and joining the NROTC program. I was in NJROTC in high school and absolutely loved it! This dream of mine went on the back burner as I thought teaching chorus was for me. You have an incredible story!
 
How did you do it? I’ll be a college reapplicant this upcoming cycle and will have my AA in the fall. Planning on transferring to a local university afterwards and joining the NROTC program. I was in NJROTC in high school and absolutely loved it! This dream of mine went on the back burner as I thought teaching chorus was for me. You have an incredible story!
This is an old thread. From 2015/16. Doubtful you will receive a response directed at poster.

lots of advice and discussion about reapplying! Keep searching around. But watch dates as far as expecting responses. Good luck to you!!
 
This is an old thread. From 2015/16. Doubtful you will receive a response directed at poster.

lots of advice and discussion about reapplying! Keep searching around. But watch dates as far as expecting responses. Good luck to you!!
Oh goodness! This is the year I attended CVW at USNA!! how so much has changed since then... Will definitely! Thank you very much!
 
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