ED to Dartmouth/Finance Career After USNA?

You have lots of great advice and I realize the deadline has passed, but.......

My son was in your shoes 2 years ago. All these schools told him he would never get in if he didn't apply ED. In his case it was the top liberals (Williams, et al). He was new to Navy, so it wasn't like he had always known he wanted to attend. We are also from a very hard area to get a nomination (outside DC). He didn't do it. He held off. Told them all no, he was going to try for Navy. I felt it was a huge gamble, but he was determined. He got his nomination April 1st and is now a 3/C. He will tell you it was the best decision he ever made. He cannot imagine himself at any of those other schools. PS. He got into every single one of those schools regular decision.....
 
I will bet there are very few males or females in the US in their 50s and 60s and 70s sitting around bemoaning the fact they they did not give Dartmouth or GT a chance when they had the opportunity

. Because they are no doubt happy with whatever civilian school they choose. And if not they would have transferred.

Those more likely to be sad or making excuses about their decisions are those that passed on a SA.

”I would have gone, I almost went, I went but dropped out”

This is what I hear virtually every time from those that wanted a SA but then passed when they had a chance or left early. Regret or excuses. Making excuses when no one asked.

That does not make going to a civilian school wrong in any way but the excuses as to why not a SA are something that will arrive and it’s good to realize that they will come..

No one feels the need to justify why they passed on Dartmouth or GT because no one cares. SAs are different.
 
there is plenty of time to do both

a very close friend of mine that i flew with went to USNA then flight school, then served his commitment as a pilot. after that, he went to Tuck school at Dartmouth, and has had a fantastically successful career in Finance (i stress FANTASTICALLY successful)

if you have the tools and the drive, it's all possible
 
You know how they say no one ever declared while on their death bed: “I wish I’d worked longer days / more hours.”

I’m willing to bet that few, if any, former officers turned finance mavens ever declared: “Gosh, I wish I never served and instead went directly into business.”

Careers are long…very long. It’s not so much when you started (per OP’s concern about “starting late”), but what you did in the interim. I doubt many former officers would say AD failed to prepare them for whatever civilian career they eventually chose.
 
"Yes Buffy, it was tough deciding on which institution I would list as my safety school. (Dartmouth-USNA - USNA-Dartmouth) Why must life be so difficult, right? Anyway, the far easier decision was naming Georgetown as my third choice. Jeeves, another Brandy, please."

Undoubtedly a conversation with faithful wife Buffy in the well-adorned study after a long and satisfying career making millions on Wall Street.
Laugh it up, a family friend from childhood's daughter was an unsuccessful USNA applicant last year so she is doing NROTC at her safety school, Princeton . . . (Crosstown affiliate with Rutgers)
 
Laugh it up, a family friend from childhood's daughter was an unsuccessful USNA applicant last year so she is doing NROTC at her safety school, Princeton . . . (Crosstown affiliate with Rutgers)
I'm not laughing. The OP has lots of good first world problems. He's throwing around elite school names like t-shirts out of an air cannon at a minor league baseball game. Good for him. I'm sure he will land in the right place and have a satisfying life.
 
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