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[ders_dad]

2023 has had a large number of Napster DOR - especially priors. More (by percentage) than prior year? Not sure. DS’s company started with 5 priors and only one left.

 

[Dr. Strange Love]

I love my NAPSTER classmates but you've heard wrong if by "doing better", you mean higher graduation rate and higher grades. I haven't seen fresh data in a few years but NAPS has traditionally had a higher attrition rate than directs although it is still pretty low. Grades also tend to be lower as the "Academic Stars" tend to come in direct. NAPS grads tend to do better militarily especially during plebe summer/year.

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The graduation rates for NAPS and Directs is within a couple hundred basis points in recent graduations … practically equal.
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[Old Navy BGO]

I love my NAPSTER classmates but you've heard wrong if by "doing better", you mean higher graduation rate and higher grades. I haven't seen fresh data in a few years but NAPS has traditionally had a higher attrition rate than directs although it is still pretty low. Grades also tend to be lower as the "Academic Stars" tend to come in direct. NAPS grads tend to do better militarily especially during plebe summer/year.

Agree with OldRetSWO -- when I was at NAPS (long, long ago), we were told it was going to be an uphill swim to graduation, and many wouldn't make it academically. The NAPS staff didn't pull any punches -- they made it clear that we were not a prepared (or capable) academically . We had many wash out of NAPS, and many (including my roomate) got ac boarded out . In addition, several prior enllsted left voluntarily, after recognizing that they didn't want to put up with 4 years of " harassment." I don't think that they ever published our NAPS -> USNA graduation rate, but suspect that it was significantly lower than the Class as a whole.

Fast forward 40 years, and I suspect that things have changed a bit. USNA's academic philosophy is that everyone that is admitted haw what it takes to graduate if you apply yourself. Alot of the "harassment" has gone away, and I think that having Senior Enlisted Leadership in each Company helps those prior enlisted that are thinking about leaving to focus on the end goal. While NAPS grads still have academic challenges, they are better set up for success now.