I have been following this post from the beginning and have been routing and hoping for your son, as well as all the other candidates as I told you in a private message. I read daily to check in on all of you.
With a moniker of prepswimmom you obviously take pride in your child's sport, and may have actually spent the 13 years I did supporting, encouraging and comforting your child who worked their hardest in the pool. In addition to all the hard work to reach the national level in swimming our child also excelled in the classroom, ACT Scores, community service, as a Captain of 2 sports, national honor society officer, started a service club, and was a volunteer firefighter and is a hard working, terrific kid who wants and desires to serve her country. Do you have any idea what she went through to accomplish all of this?
PLEASE stop bashing athletes. It is unacceptable and offensive. Don't let one person's comments about a single athlete lead you to believe athletes are inadequate. Athletes have to take the same classes, pass the same CFT, and graduate like any other midshipman.
I have a DS who will be applying next year, who is not an athlete, and I promise I will not break one candidate down and build another up. LOA's are not just given to athletes, they are also given to stellar candidates. I can guarantee you, DS is not complaining about DD's Athletic LOA, he is doing everything in his ability to vie for his own LOA.
Every midshipman is equal day one, I now worry about the candidates who will
treat my child with negativity based on her being a varsity athlete.
Please treat all appointees with the same respect.
I wish you all the best of luck next year and with plans B, C, and D.
I'm not bashing the athletes and as a swim mom I know most swimmers are top students - it is just the nature of the sport. What I am frustrated with in General is the emphasis on sports in this country as a whole. It is not what is important in life by far.
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