The other 4 schools are all junior military colleges, so academically speaking, he won't get anything out of those either, so don't discount NWP (the 1 semester option) based on that. If you're looking for academic gains, he's actually better off going to NWP, then enrolling in a local 4 year college and take classes he wants, as long as it fits the FFS contract criteria. He doesn't HAVE to go to a community college, it's just that for most Falcon Scholars, that's the most affordable, logical option. He can spend that 2nd semester at an Ivy League if he wants to.
Thank you!
Great points. After looking at them he is actually most interested in NWP.
What do weekends look like there? Are you able to leave campus at all?
Yes, I went to church in town every weekend and occasionally they had liberty weekends where you can leave the campus with a family member.
The campus is in the mountains of San Bernadino right outside Lake Arrowhead. It's a camp with cabins in the summer, which is used for NWP in the fall. You can't have a car on campus so most people typically don't leave campus. Weekends are spent studying, catching up on homework, working on their SA applications, sorting out their 2nd semester school, general adulting, playing basketball, lounging by the pool, hiking, working out practicing for CFAs which everyone will take 3-4 times, hanging out with friends, movie nights, really, all the same things normal high schoolers do, but without the "whose house are you at? Where are you? What are you doing?" worries because they're all right there on the mountain on campus. They do have liberty weekends where if students have families in town they can come take them off the mountain for a day or 2, but most don't leave due to lack of resources (families in town, car, etc) and it's just easier to hang out by the pool with their friends, facetiming friends and families back home.