College Honors Program

[2028usma???!!]

If I am not offered a AOG or prepatory school to USMA, would doing an honors program in college help in the next cycles application? I was invited to the honors program at my college. I understand that if you are to self prep at a college, you would want to mimic the courses of those taken in plebe year. I haven’t looked into it, but would honors program possibly help or should I just choose my own classes that can reflect plebe year?

 

[WoolSocksinSummer]

To be clear, you can potentially be offered a WPAOG scholarship if you are 3 Q'd + nom. It means you meet the standards, but are from a competitive district or do not meet a criteria required to round out the class. USMAPS, on the other hand, is for students that need academic remediation. So, if you went to a traditional college and re-applied, you want your grades to be excellent and the academic rigor to show you are capable of academic success. I honestly don't know about selecting classes that would mimic plebe year so hopefully someone can give you insight on that.

 

[Herman_Snerd]

If I am not offered a AOG or prepatory school to USMA, would doing an honors program in college help in the next cycles application? I was invited to the honors program at my college. I understand that if you are to self prep at a college, you would want to mimic the courses of those taken in plebe year. I haven’t looked into it, but would honors program possibly help or should I just choose my own classes that can reflect plebe year?

Honors colleges vary from college to college. Some are pretty intense with service commitments, activities, a pretty heavy courseload of honors courses, thesis defense while others are more like a living community with a nicer study area but little else. two of my kids are in honors colleges at their schools and it doesn't hurt. I honestly think, if you're planning ahead, would be to pick courses you are interested in, use ratemyprofessor to find fair teachers. and thrive at school with a 4.0 and earn a great recommendation from your professor in charge of your ROTC program to go with your reapplication. Keep in elite shape, stay out of trouble, put forward an outstanding reapplication and keep an open mind that you just might find a home in ROTC/ that school where you'll want to stay, even if offered the chance to restart your education for 4 years at the SA.