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OldRetSWO said:
All USNA Mids are required to take Calc 1, 2 and 3.
Pre-Calc is a remedial course for mids that need it and does NOT count toward graduation. What that means is that you have to overload or go to summer school later because of it. I was placed in pre-calc as a first semester plebe and in succeeding semesters, took Calc 1, 2 and 3. I went to summer school before 1/C year to keep my academic year courses at a reasonable level of 18 to 19 credits.

For a while after my year, USNA required Calc 1 thru 3 plus Differential Equations for all mids, regardless of major but later backed off on the Diff EQs for some of the majors.
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Concur. As a Poli Sci major, after Calc 3 I took Prob/Stats while the engineers all took Diff Eqs (aka “Screws”…IYKYK!).
 
karhuto132 said:
Hey I'm new and I was wondering about JROTC. I'm currently a junior and just learned about the service academys. I'm biting myself because I haven't participated in JROTC or NJROTC, and my school doesn't offer either. I can do JROTC next year as senior, but it's a 30 min drive without traffic. I'm more than willing to make the drive. I also have school sports to maintain. Is it worth to start as a senior or not at all because of the application deadline?
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Why would you join JEOTC your senior year?
 
GrilledCheese94 said:
Concur. As a Poli Sci major, after Calc 3 I took Prob/Stats while the engineers all took Diff Eqs (aka “Screws”…IYKYK!).
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Same at KP. The deckies were loving life after3/c year while the engineers got more math courses disguised with different names fluids, statics, dynamics, thermodynamics, heat transfer. It seemed never ending until license week. Not sure how that helped me welding in a new elbow for a condensate return line. 😅
 
OldRetSWO said:
All USNA Mids are required to take Calc 1, 2 and 3.
Pre-Calc is a remedial course for mids that need it and does NOT count toward graduation. What that means is that you have to overload or go to summer school later because of it. I was placed in pre-calc as a first semester plebe and in succeeding semesters, took Calc 1, 2 and 3. I went to summer school before 1/C year to keep my academic year courses at a reasonable level of 18 to 19 credits.

For a while after my year, USNA required Calc 1 thru 3 plus Differential Equations for all mids, regardless of major but later backed off on the Diff EQs for some of the majors.
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Same at KP. But math went up the wazoo for the engineers right up to license week 1/c yr. Not sure how all that math helped me welding in a new elbow on a condensate line on a supertanker.
 
Some of the classes are much less license oriented and much more degree oriented. There is some commonality and some exclusivity between the two.

While much of the hardcore engineering courses do not seem particularly license related I did dust the cobwebs off some statics/dynamics once when I was stuck on a license question.
 
My daughter is looking at KP and is in an early college program where she will have an associate’s and high school diploma when she finishes 12th grade. She will have already taken and passed Calc 2 and Physics by the time she graduates. Do you know how KP deals with transfer credits?
 
No transfer credits at KP, but she can place into more advanced courses.
 
FingersCrossed28 said:
My daughter is looking at KP and is in an early college program where she will have an associate’s and high school diploma when she finishes 12th grade. She will have already taken and passed Calc 2 and Physics by the time she graduates. Do you know how KP deals with transfer credits?
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She can exempt classes, however it’s case by case and EXTREMELY subjective. For math and English there are placement exams, but for things like chemistry, physics, etc she can put in a request with registrar and the department head will just look at the syllabi and her transcript grades and decide if that’s good enough. I got a B in physics at embry riddle and wasn't allowed to exempt.
 
FingersCrossed28 said:
My daughter is looking at KP and is in an early college program where she will have an associate’s and high school diploma when she finishes 12th grade. She will have already taken and passed Calc 2 and Physics by the time she graduates. Do you know how KP deals with transfer credits?
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If she's good at calc and physics or chem, I'd just retake em at KP for an easy A. Its all about establishing your GPA Plebe yr. Those 3 classes are the demise of every plebe that gets dismissed.
 
KPEngnr90 said:
Its all about establishing your GPA Plebe yr
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100% This

One has no idea what life events their 4 (or more) years at KP hold and what impact said life events can have on a particular trimester's GPA. Having a solid cumulative GPA cushion to fall back on can save someone from setback or disenrollment if they have a 1.0 for the trimester.
 
I am sure many reading these posts are thinking that these cautions do not apply to them. It may be hard to imagine getting a D or F if you have never gotten anything below a B. Believe me, it can happen to you. I vividly remember my DS checking grades every hour while on a break his plebe year. He was ecstatic when he learned he got a D in physics. I mean doing the happy dance relieved. He was one of only three in his class who did not fail the class. Of course his classmates were all A students in high school like he was, and they all had a really jarring awakening during plebe year. Just a reminder not to be overconfident, get help early and often, and consider retaking classes you may have already mastered before KP.
 
kpmom2013 said:
I am sure many reading these posts are thinking that these cautions do not apply to them. It may be hard to imagine getting a D or F if you have never gotten anything below a B. Believe me, it can happen to you. I vividly remember my DS checking grades every hour while on a break his plebe year. He was ecstatic when he learned he got a D in physics. I mean doing the happy dance relieved. He was one of only three in his class who did not fail the class. Of course his classmates were all A students in high school like he was, and they all had a really jarring awakening during plebe year. Just a reminder not to be overconfident, get help early and often, and consider retaking classes you may have already mastered before KP.
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Anyone who never went to the academy cannot imagine the whole academy is filled with HS GPA Rockstars who will do the happy dance for a C. We used to say D for Done. Probably still say it.
 
In my day, there was a professor that said…take 3000 of the top high schools grads in the country and select the top 300 of them. Take that 300 and throw them into one of the most challenging things they will ever do, and you will have some at the top, and some at the bottom.
 
kpmom2013 said:
He was ecstatic when he learned he got a D in physics. I mean doing the happy dance relieved.
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I got a C+ in strengths of materials with CB Kim. I recall no As, One B, and a few Cs. Everyone else was Ds and Fs. Only thing better than that was the Coast Guard petty officer grading my test telling me congratulations I was now a 3rd Engineer.
 
KPEngineer said:
I got a C+ in strengths of materials with CB Kim. I recall no As, One B, and a few Cs. Everyone else was Ds and Fs. Only thing better than that was the Coast Guard petty officer grading my test telling me congratulations I was now a 3rd Engineer.
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You actually understood Prof Kim? Im Asian and I had no idea what was coming out of his mouth. D for done in Strength of Materials.
 
KPEngnr90 said:
You actually understood Prof Kim? Im Asian and I had no idea what was coming out of his mouth. D for done in Strength of Materials.
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I didn't say I understood him, only that I got a C+ in his class. I attribute it to a solid understanding in statics from my A- with Paquette.
 
JohnPAKP65 said:
Don Paquette was one of the best instructors at KP!
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Highly underrated because he was not easy.

The biggest hurdle for most was the time available for tests. Once I figured out how to do my FBD most efficiently I was able to do the tests in the same amount of time he did. Of course that was the second time I took his class and the difference between an F the first time and an A- the second.
 
KPEngineer said:
Highly underrated because he was not easy.

The biggest hurdle for most was the time available for tests. Once I figured out how to do my FBD most efficiently I was able to do the tests in the same amount of time he did. Of course that was the second time I took his class and the difference between an F the first time and an A- the second.
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Great professor. Along with McDonald IEE and Circuits. aka Black Mac. It was McDonalds teaching that enabled me to become an electrician when they got rid of electricians on tankers in the 90's and it became the 3rd Eng. responsibility. That little grey Hubert book we were issued is worth its weight in gold. When I worked ashore it was in the library of every powerplant I worked at.
 
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