Recent content by bk2015

Company areas usually have a wardroom with a full-sized fridge that everyone can use. The plebes might not be able to use it until a few weeks to a few months into the school year though! It depends on the company. But they can have cold drinks - just not at 0330 because they are supposed to be...

Hey - I'm from the NoVA area and I was given the #1 nomination from my Congressman in my district. Your ACT scores are going to put you at a significant disadvantage. Most kids from the area applying for nominations have around a 32 ACT composite. And there are 100s of kids applying. To put it...

Same process. You usually have to take validation exams or use AP exams to test out. If you took military courses as a part of a ROTC unit at another university, it might count for some of the professional courses. I have classmates who are 22 and went to college for 2+ years who had to start...

The company that finishes first in Sea Trials gets to attack the Herndon monument first. So the strategy is to win Sea Trials!

The Academy is pretty conservative for a liberal arts college, and relatively more conservative than other colleges in my experience. But the Academy is generally a very accepting place for everyone. You will get extremes on both sides and no matter where you go, you may run into jerks and...

You probably won't validate any classes with 3s. Also, it shows that you could probably use some extra classes in those subjects. To give you some context, I got mostly 5s and 4s on all of my AP exams (BC Calculus, Chemistry, Government, Physics, Econ, History, Biology) and I validated Chem 1...

Make sure you send your scores to USNA. You should be able to bubble in USNA's school code at the exam on your answer sheet. They will get all of your AP exam scores. During my plebe summer, they had a spreadsheet of all of the AP exam scores of all of the plebes. USNA doesn't care that much...

Col. Liszewski announced that the class of 2020 will be shotgunned after plebe year at the anchor before noon meal in King Hall today, so it is not a rumor - it's official!

Thank you for the responses again. It's giving me a lot to think about and that's exactly what I need right now, I think! My advisor mentioned that there was a Midshipmen a few years back that realized he wanted to study a very high level of math and wanted to be a math prof. He DOR'd and ended...

Feel free to PM me! I am class of 2019 so I can probably provide you with some of the most up to date information :)

Nope - I drove and I was reimbursed for gas! They also reimburse for tolls.

You get reimbursed

If you're a runner, you're pretty much set for plebe summer because you will be running for majority of the day (including chopping). I would get good at bodyweight stuff - push-ups, curl-ups, pull-ups - because there will be evolutions where you have to use strength, such as the IST and most...

MIT definitely is one of the top. I am considering applying to MIT, but I also am considering other factors that impact college life, like proximity to home, quality of life, campus vibe, and climate.

I'm currently taking a foreign language. It's not Chinese or Arabic, but it's also not a common language!