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You can get anywhere from 7 weeks to 4 days of summer break, depending on your schedule. It’s all up to grad requirements, whether you do STAP or an AIAD, or if you do a MIAD (that being said there’s about a 99% chance you get placed in Air Assault)

Yes. There are three ways to get off post on the weekends: walking privs, Off-Post Privileges (OPPs), and pass. Plebes can take walking privs most weekends which is anything within a 5 mile radius of post.

A bit late to the thread, but as someone who did the whole “put weight in a backpack and ruck in your boots” thing, it doesn’t really help that much apart from breaking in your boots. I’m not a great rucker by any means and certainly wasn’t when I was in Beast, but what got me to be even...

Cadre do not push or otherwise correctively train New Cadets for having "too many letters." I'm not sure if this was a thing in the past but in my experience it is not true. Please write to your New Cadet as often as possible; they need it.

There’s three different branches of the history department that you can major in: international, military, and American. I believe that there’s a new general history minor now too. I’ve always been really into history so it’s pretty easy to enjoy the major, but there are some amazing AIADs and...

Military History

100% bring your own. I don't know if this has changed but I was not issued bras on R-Day two years ago

Plank with minimum 1:30 and maximum 3:40

Current cadet and also an avid reader. I have a whopping 18 book TBR pile at the moment, plus my books for class. It's possible, just be prepared to live minimally in other areas so they can actually fit in your room and in your locker when you have to pack out. It's 100% possible to find time...

Female plebe: BB throw: 27 ft (don’t do what I did. PRACTICE) Flexed Arm Hang: 21 seconds Shuttle: 10.7 sec Sit ups: 90 Push ups: 37 Mile: 8:31 (also don’t do it in cold weather)

One thing you’ll hear a lot is that no one can tell you exactly what your chances are. It depends on many factors: the competitiveness of your district, your medical/physical qualification, LOAs, etc. You have an impressive resume and as good a shot as any. One thing I can tell you is just by...

Here were my scores (taken in mid-November so I’m looking back and cringing). I got appointed to 2024: BB Throw: 27ft (I didn’t practice much. 99% sure this is the minimum. Don’t do what I did) Flexed Arm Hang: 21sec (keep going for that pull up. The hang is easier but super humiliating, along...

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Have you tried the SAT? I actually had the same ACT score (26), but my SATs were much better and I got appointed to 2024. Usually people that struggle with one do better on the other.