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    Undecided

    14 of 32 Golden Ticket recipients are undecided on whether or not they will visit Willy Wonka's chocolate factory.... 11 of 43 Black Ball recipients are undecided on whether or not they will become a Squid!!!! Navy is winning!!!!???!!! Dismount! Fight on Foot! Go Army! Beat Navy!
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    2022 candidates and calculus ap testing

    DS 2021 reports that only cadets who had taken the ap calculus placement test were considered for calc , that the score on the beast math test was insufficient. DS is now in easy math, what he covered as a junior in high school. WP did a great job in slotting him into 2nd year German, but a...
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    How can new cadet register for calculus?

    Class 2021 final week of Beast, 4th phone call: DS explains that registering for Calculus requires an AP test independent of the Beast math placement test, contrary to the many posts here discussing the merits of starting the fall with Calculus I or Calc II - thus, AP testing seems to be a USMA...
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    Class 2021 Beast week 5, 4th letter received

    Letter, dated August 7, postmarked August 9 Westchester, delivered August 12 "This week is FTX..... we wil be ambushed by Iranians...we will be on night guard. In one week I get my phone back... Rappelling was by far my favorite day. the cliff was 75 feet...so much fun bounding down, just like...
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    3RD CALL FROM BEAST

    "I can talk for 3 minutes. We won a contest so we get an extra call. I apologize I called (girlfriend) first and talked for 18 minutes. ....we threw grenades this week. it was a lot of fun. ten blanks and one live grenade... we threw into these old houses, they have a course set up.... my...
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    3rd letter from beast, 4th week

    most positive comments yet. no negatives. "the organ in the chapel takes up half the balcony. the organist played 'great is thy faithfulness' it was magnificent. it is beautiful here."
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    2nd phone call from Beast at halfway point

    DS called at 13:30. He had an hour total time to call. He called his girlfriend first. Even though he was the easiest delivery, he's supposed to call his Mama first, not the girlfriend. We talked to him for 26 minutes. He had a lot of pushups and situps that were not counted on testing...
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    3rd letter from Beast

    3rd letter from Beast arrived 4 days after mailed from WP: "the weeks are flying by..." DS wrote.... (but.... he had only been there ten days.....!!) "We learned how to clean the M4..... We were trained how to use a radio - it took 4 hours to train, but should have taken about 30 seconds..."...
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    2 letters from Beast

    2 letters from DS arrived 3 and 4 days after mailing (but we live in the boondocks and guaranteed overnight delivery always takes 2 days). The hardest part of Beast so far for DS was getting yelled at by a woman. He had to try very hard not to laugh. He was in trouble 5 times. First, for...
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    8th semester transcripts

    high school says they sent final transcripts 3 weeks ago, but portal is not updated. Should we send again or does the admissions office just need more time?
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    losing weight

    My Dad was 6 foot, 120#, in the depression. When he graduated from USMC Camp Pendleton in '42 he was 160. he gained a ton of weight at marine corps boot camp. several of his buddies improved their eyesight and no longer needed glasses.... Do Cadets maintain their weight in Beast, or are they...
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    West Point orchestra

    I found pictures of the USMA orchestra on Flickr. Is there a contact at USMA for the orchestra? I was wondering what are the time commitments, are there try outs.....
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