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Congrats on the USNA appointment!! I would do a few things:
1. Your son should alert RPI that he has accepted the USNA appointment and ask for deferral of admission for one year, as dohdean did. Don't worry about tuition at this point, because I don't think you have to pay anything until your son actually matriculates (i.e., in August 2013, at which time you can advise that your son won't be attending after all). Having accepted the appointment, this will enable the RPI admissions office to open up one more admission slot before the April 1 deadline and possibly permit another applicant to matriculate at RPI. You will also develop an option, albeit unfunded at this point, of possibly following the RPI path down the road.
2. Your son should alert the NROTC folks at RPI as well. This will place the scholarship back into the pool and possibly free up another slot for someone else. I wouldn't leave them hanging, thinking your son is going to show up in the fall. Sooner is better than later.
3. I would not pay the deposit at RPI if you know that there is no way to finance that option. However, you may want to revisit this again just to be sure. This means filling out all of the financial aid forms, etc., to see exactly what you can do. If there is a possibility that you really can afford it, then I would pay the deposit.
4. If your son doesn't have a pending application at the local state college, this likely is no longer an option. Instead, I would contact the local community college to see when the application deadlines are. If the deadline for application is in May, fill out the application and pay the deposit. If the deadline isn't until August (which I believe is most likely the case), I would wait to see how things go over the summer at USNA before paying anything. In the unlikely event that your son is injured at USNA, he can always get back into the game for the Class of 2017 (or apply anew for an NROTC MO scholarship).
I think that there are plenty of folks at the service academies who start the fall semester in crutches because of injuries sustained during the summer (the injury sustained after I-Day would have to be quite severe, I think, such that military service is impossible for medical reasons). Getting injured BEFORE reporting for I-Day, however, is something to avoid at ALL costs!! This is the time of year when the appointees wrap themselves in bubble-wrap until they report for I-Day.
1. Your son should alert RPI that he has accepted the USNA appointment and ask for deferral of admission for one year, as dohdean did. Don't worry about tuition at this point, because I don't think you have to pay anything until your son actually matriculates (i.e., in August 2013, at which time you can advise that your son won't be attending after all). Having accepted the appointment, this will enable the RPI admissions office to open up one more admission slot before the April 1 deadline and possibly permit another applicant to matriculate at RPI. You will also develop an option, albeit unfunded at this point, of possibly following the RPI path down the road.
2. Your son should alert the NROTC folks at RPI as well. This will place the scholarship back into the pool and possibly free up another slot for someone else. I wouldn't leave them hanging, thinking your son is going to show up in the fall. Sooner is better than later.
3. I would not pay the deposit at RPI if you know that there is no way to finance that option. However, you may want to revisit this again just to be sure. This means filling out all of the financial aid forms, etc., to see exactly what you can do. If there is a possibility that you really can afford it, then I would pay the deposit.
4. If your son doesn't have a pending application at the local state college, this likely is no longer an option. Instead, I would contact the local community college to see when the application deadlines are. If the deadline for application is in May, fill out the application and pay the deposit. If the deadline isn't until August (which I believe is most likely the case), I would wait to see how things go over the summer at USNA before paying anything. In the unlikely event that your son is injured at USNA, he can always get back into the game for the Class of 2017 (or apply anew for an NROTC MO scholarship).
I think that there are plenty of folks at the service academies who start the fall semester in crutches because of injuries sustained during the summer (the injury sustained after I-Day would have to be quite severe, I think, such that military service is impossible for medical reasons). Getting injured BEFORE reporting for I-Day, however, is something to avoid at ALL costs!! This is the time of year when the appointees wrap themselves in bubble-wrap until they report for I-Day.