USAFA: 2016!
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- Oct 21, 2011
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I'm currently a cadet at Valley Forge. A sponsored prepster, but I have many good buds who are self-prepsters. They do like the school, but many feel cheated by the prepster program. They were sold on the assurance that they had a very good shot at admission into their desired Academy, but in reality less than 50% of all SP receive their BFE. VF similarly promised constant communication between them and the academies to update on the sp's status. Rarely do they do, and the 'group' in charge of the prepsters are more concerned with the needs of the sponsored preps.
It's is easy to slack of at the school. After plebe system, things die down considerably. It's only more relaxed now that the second semester has hit.
Prepsters are 'required' to attend pt three times a week. We do a ton of running, pushups, pullups, etc...whole nine yards.
So before you make a decision, speak to the cadets. They aren't trying to sell you a 45 grand education. They'll tell you the truth, how things really are.
In many ways, I think you're being unfair. I don't know anything about VF, but know what I see with our self-ies here at NMMI. 50% chance?! As an unsponsored prep?! That's not bad at all. What's the national average, like 12% acceptance? So going from below 20% to almost 50% is a huge jump. If I was a self-prep I certainly wouldn't think I was being cheated. Maybe I took what you said wrong, but I wouldn't "diss" the prep program just because self-preps have a lower acceptance average than sponsored. Maybe you're just arguing about the prep program doing some false advertising there at VF...?
Best wishes!