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What are the benefits to doing Shipyard Management program versus straight Marine Engineering?

Does anyone know the percentage of mids who end up having to take summer school? My son told me ALOT of his 4/c class were having to take summer school, and I wondered how common it really is.

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Are midshipmen able to apply for these? My son was wanting to have a little money for extra expenses while at school and wondered if he filled out the FAFSA if he would be eligible. I have 2 other kids in college so we've gone through the process with them but I don't know if it works...

I posted a vague question about this awhile back but didn't get a specific response so I'm creating a thread. . . I want to buy a pair of binoculars for when we come to drop off DS at Indoc but I have no idea what to get. I tried to do some research but it's overwhelming. If anyone could share...

These are the classes listed on the USMMA webpage for 1st year marine engineering; I'm assuming they don't take ALL of these? Curriculum Fourth Class Year Introduction to Marine Engineering I ECME101 Introduction to Electrical Engineering ECEE100 Introduction to Marine Engineering II ECME105...

Are they allowed to have an IPad?

I saw one post that suggested at the HS graduation party, to have people bring blank letters or cards that could be mailed to the plebe candidates during Indoc for encouragement. I also saw a post that said that you don't want to draw attention to yourself during Indoc so I'm thinking getting a...

What does this mean in the portal?

Is it helpful for a candidate to have multiple nominations to USMMA or does it not matter?

If you take the ACT, will the portal list the ACT scores instead or the SAT conversion score? Anyone know?

I'm just curious when the Review Board begins to review files. Are they looking at each one as it's complete, or do they wait until they have a nomination, or is there a certain date they wait for and then review them all at once? I'm just wondering how all of this works.

Yesterday DS's MyUSMMA had his application as being processed already, with CFA passed, all documents received except showing 2 missing - "Grade 12 Courses in Progresss" and "7th semester grades". Now that is all GONE. He can't even get to that page. His part 1 application, which had been...

The start date for accepting applications for class of 2022 was June 1st. My son was told when he visited the Academy in March that the sooner you send everything in, the better, so he completed part 1 online on June 1st and today he got delivery confirmation that the rest of his application...