Concerned about running...

[falconchic88]

The Navy Tech working your case in admissions will want to see something from your doctor that indicates you are 100% recovered and have no restrictions to military duty or physical activity before they even change your status. If that doesn't happen, they will most likely categorize you as a medical turn back and hold you a spot in next year's class. If this does happen, your status will change and you will be expected to report to IDay in shape and ready to run. Bottom line, Admissions/Navy Med will make the decision to defer or not, I don't think it's really your choice. So between now and IDay, my advice is to rehabilitate and get yourself conditioned for the running, you have 2 months, you have time to do this! There is a suggested conditioning/workout in the Permit to Report package, you could use that as a guide as what to shoot for.

 

[falconchic88]

@Capt MJ and @NavyHoops are both correct with the LOA comments. I was at the parent session at my sons's CVW and asked the Dean of Admissions about the 'what if' scenario where a candidate blows out his/her knee getting off the bus on I-Day. He told me that the person would automatically be on top of the list for the next year. Another thing that he told me was that if this person were to want to attend USNA the following year, he/she should take classes at a community college. You need to keep your brain functioning, and there is no need to pay tuition at a 4 year school for that one year. It doesn't make financial sense.

This is exactly right. There is a Plebe2B for 2023 that blew out her shoulder shortly before Iday last year. She was a medical turnback, did community college this past year and will report to IDay this June.

 

[Sydney C.]

@Capt MJ and @NavyHoops are both correct with the LOA comments. I was at the parent session at my sons's CVW and asked the Dean of Admissions about the 'what if' scenario where a candidate blows out his/her knee getting off the bus on I-Day. He told me that the person would automatically be on top of the list for the next year. Another thing that he told me was that if this person were to want to attend USNA the following year, he/she should take classes at a community college. You need to keep your brain functioning, and there is no need to pay tuition at a 4 year school for that one year. It doesn't make financial sense.

This is all partially correct. Unless things have changed in the past four years...and they may have....they way it plays out is this: They are
put in a special program called Civilian Preparatory Program (not to be confused with those candidates going to a prep school as a step toward admission). They will work directly with an admissions counselor assigned to them

They send out a package and it is very specific on what needs to be done. It reads ALMOST like an LOA but it never says guaranteed. Instead "we have every confidence that if you fulfill all the requirements you will receive an appointment". Here is what it says:

• Civilian four year college, take the courses they outlined (they had to submit their curriculums for approval by USNA). They weren't "suggested classes" and loads, they were mandated.
• They had to achieve A's and B's in all classes. No exceptions
• They had to go through the nomination process again and get a nom.
• They need to successfully do the PRT...different and more difficult than CFA and administered by an USNA or military officer locally.
• No need for essays, extracurriculars, etc. They didn't care about that.
• You MAY to retake the ACT/SAT (of the six four years ago that this happened to, half of them did)
• Be medically cleared of course.
• That single officer at USNA will monitored your progress. In the spring, the Dean will want to see mid-term grades.
• They are among the last in April to hear the news

We've been there and done that and this was the drill.

 

[brewmeist]

@Capt MJ and @NavyHoops are both correct with the LOA comments. I was at the parent session at my sons's CVW and asked the Dean of Admissions about the 'what if' scenario where a candidate blows out his/her knee getting off the bus on I-Day. He told me that the person would automatically be on top of the list for the next year. Another thing that he told me was that if this person were to want to attend USNA the following year, he/she should take classes at a community college. You need to keep your brain functioning, and there is no need to pay tuition at a 4 year school for that one year. It doesn't make financial sense.

This is all partially correct. Unless things have changed in the past four years...and they may have....they way it plays out is this: They are
put in a special program called Civilian Preparatory Program (not to be confused with those candidates going to a prep school as a step toward admission). They will work directly with an admissions counselor assigned to them

They send out a package and it is very specific on what needs to be done. It reads ALMOST like an LOA but it never says guaranteed. Instead "we have every confidence that if you fulfill all the requirements you will receive an appointment". Here is what it says:

• Civilian four year college, take the courses they outlined (they had to submit their curriculums for approval by USNA). They weren't "suggested classes" and loads, they were mandated.
• They had to achieve A's and B's in all classes. No exceptions
• They had to go through the nomination process again and get a nom.
• They need to successfully do the PRT...different and more difficult than CFA and administered by an USNA or military officer locally.
• No need for essays, extracurriculars, etc. They didn't care about that.
• You MAY to retake the ACT/SAT (of the six four years ago that this happened to, half of them did)
• Be medically cleared of course.
• That single officer at USNA will monitored your progress. In the spring, the Dean will want to see mid-term grades.
• They are among the last in April to hear the news

We've been there and done that and this was the drill.

Everything you listed is in line with what I was told, except for the 4 year college. He specifically recommended going to a community college if you intentions were to apply again to USNA the following year, for financial reasons. Maybe this is a change in policy? Of course the final answer will always come directly from admissions.

I remember reading your previous posts about your son's experience. Glad it all worked out. And I hope it all works out for the OP.

 

[Sydney C.]

[/QUOTE]
Everything you listed is in line with what I was told, except for the 4 year college. He specifically recommended going to a community college if you intentions were to apply again to USNA the following year, for financial reasons. Maybe this is a change in policy? Of course the final answer will always come directly from admissions.[/QUOTE]

As you say, it may be a change in policy since then on the university/community college option. Four years ago was the first year that this program was set up like that for those that had received appointments but got medically DQ'd because of injuries before I-Day so one would assume that they would refine and tweek it going forward.

If that's the case, and the appointee is totally committed to going the next year, it would indeed save a whole lot of bucks going the community college route.

 

[thunderheadc6]

What about one-way p-ways? Say you're on the 4th deck and you are on one-way p-ways. Let's imagine what it's like to go to the head from your room, if the head is to port and the one way p-ways are to starboard, you have to go down ten flights of stairs to the zero deck, go to the other end of the wing and come up ten flights of stairs back to your 4th deck, just to go to the head that you could see from your room.

Oh, you'll get in shape real fast.

Or you pee in the sink

 

[THParent]

Aside from the fact that this sort of solution makes you a savage, it also smells up the drain for your shipmates next door.