More College Inc. Calls NAPS out on Grades & Minorities
Todays Wasshington Post Item from College Inc.
"During a recent two-year period, NAPS grads were arriving at the Naval Academy so poorly prepared for college-level work, the Naval Academy superintendent relieved the officer in charge of the prep school. Still, these Napsters were found to be fully qualified and were admitted to the academy, while other qualified students were turned away," writer Earl Kelly reports.
The 300-student NAPS class of 2011 included 190 minority students and 110 recruited athletes, according to records obtained by the Capital.
More stats: "For the Naval Academy Classes of 2009-2013, 312 African Americans entered the Naval Academy, 180 (58 percent) of whom came through NAPS, according to documents obtained under FOIA."
Among whites, by contrast, "521 of the 4,101 admitted to the academy (13 percent) entered through NAPS," the Capital wrote.
More stats:
"Of the 155 football players listed on Navy's 2010 roster, 86 (55 percent) attended NAPS, according to the school's sports Web page."
"Forty of Navy's 60 current male lacrosse players (67 percent) attended NAPS, even though many graduated from some of the country's most prestigious private schools including, locally, St. Mary's High School and Severn School, and St. Albans School in Washington, D.C."
Naval Academy Prep School under fire
Academy grad asks senator to investigate 'red shirting' recruited athletes
By EARL KELLY, Staff Writer
Annapolis Capital
Published 02/12/11
A Naval Academy graduate has asked Congress to investigate - and possibly abolish - the academy's prep school.
According to Alfred W. Tate, Class of 1964, the Naval Academy Preparatory School (NAPS) has become a way to "red shirt" recruited athletes and give unqualified minority students a back door into the Naval Academy.
In an e-mail on Thursday to U.S. Sen. James Webb, Tate called NAPS, and similar programs run by the U.S. Military Academy and the Air Force Academy, a misuse of federal funds.
"I simply didn't know of any other way to sort this out, and I feel this needs sorting out," Tate said yesterday in a phone interview.
"NAPS and its sister prep schools appear to have become places for parking what only can be described as red-shirt freshmen for the service academies which are themselves increasingly indistinguishable from the football factories most of our major universities have become," Tate wrote to Webb. "At a time of huge and growing federal deficits, the expenditure of taxpayer money for such a purpose is indefensible, particularly when funding for fleet and Marine Corps combat readiness may be in jeopardy."
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Todays Wasshington Post Item from College Inc.
"During a recent two-year period, NAPS grads were arriving at the Naval Academy so poorly prepared for college-level work, the Naval Academy superintendent relieved the officer in charge of the prep school. Still, these Napsters were found to be fully qualified and were admitted to the academy, while other qualified students were turned away," writer Earl Kelly reports.
The 300-student NAPS class of 2011 included 190 minority students and 110 recruited athletes, according to records obtained by the Capital.
More stats: "For the Naval Academy Classes of 2009-2013, 312 African Americans entered the Naval Academy, 180 (58 percent) of whom came through NAPS, according to documents obtained under FOIA."
Among whites, by contrast, "521 of the 4,101 admitted to the academy (13 percent) entered through NAPS," the Capital wrote.
More stats:
"Of the 155 football players listed on Navy's 2010 roster, 86 (55 percent) attended NAPS, according to the school's sports Web page."
"Forty of Navy's 60 current male lacrosse players (67 percent) attended NAPS, even though many graduated from some of the country's most prestigious private schools including, locally, St. Mary's High School and Severn School, and St. Albans School in Washington, D.C."