Does West Point look any further into what you did while at Boys State? For example, would they hold a candidate in higher regard if he was elected Governor or another leadership position or do they simply note the fact that the candidate attended Boys State?
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2. Any ideas on convincing my school to let me skip the last week of school?
Can anyone suggest a way for me to do both Boys State AND SLS?
I can only attend week 2 of SLS (and I've already paid/etc for it), but as I'm a member of my school's Model UN team, I feel obligated to do something like this [and seeing as I want to major in PoliSci]
So my question/concerns:
1. If I decide to do both SLS and Boy's State, is it easy to change my SLS Week 2 to SLS Week 1?
2. Any ideas on convincing my school to let me skip the last week of school? (For SLS Week 1?) - and this week is final's week, but since I have all AP classes, we take our finals much earlier as prep for the AP test.
Any ideas? Convince me to pick Boy's State over SLS? And I REALLY want to go to SLS - I've told my parents that after SLS is when I'll finalize my decision to try to attend West Point or not so...
Thanks,
TheChicagoan
TheChicagoan- i was going to boys state but decided against it to go to the summer sessions. I think thats better-imo
TheChicagoan- i was going to boys state but decided against it to go to the summer sessions. I think thats better-imo
devildog-where did u hear that USAFA values Boys State more than summer seminar. and that USNA said they did not?
But if going to Boys State is going to make a huge difference (I don't scout, so no eagle-scout award/rank) on my West Point app, I feel that I should take any opportunity that I can take to make my chances for 2017 even better.
TheChicagoan,Can anyone suggest a way for me to do both Boys State AND SLS?
I can only attend week 2 of SLS (and I've already paid/etc for it), but as I'm a member of my school's Model UN team, I feel obligated to do something like this [and seeing as I want to major in PoliSci]
So my question/concerns:
1. If I decide to do both SLS and Boy's State, is it easy to change my SLS Week 2 to SLS Week 1?
2. Any ideas on convincing my school to let me skip the last week of school? (For SLS Week 1?) - and this week is final's week, but since I have all AP classes, we take our finals much earlier as prep for the AP test.
Any ideas? Convince me to pick Boy's State over SLS? And I REALLY want to go to SLS - I've told my parents that after SLS is when I'll finalize my decision to try to attend West Point or not so...
Thanks,
TheChicagoan
TheChicagoan,
My DS skipped the last week of school last year to go to SLS. He simply asked all of his teachers ahead of time and told them what he was doing and why he wanted to go. Since, his grades were very good, as I am sure yours are as well, they all agreed.
Good Luck.
By the way, he is a LOA recipient and 2016 Appointee.