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JasperDog ...
I have no idea where on the rule/exception spectrum I fall, and did not mean to put myself in either category. ... That, I think would be a mistake.
.... Back when I was in, you got your class ring as a 3/C so I have a 95 class ring. ...
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I only had one academic setback btw ... the first was medical. That was probably what kept me in in the end.
KPEngineer:
My point about exceptions vs "the rule" is just making the point that I feel number of setbacks aside whether it was back in our days or now a setback was and still is an exception vs the rule. I'm not sure the exact numbers anecdotally I've heard of as many of 30+/- in a recent class, that would be like 20% of those classes. Since that would mean 80% are not setbacks, single, double or otherwise that would make setbacks a minority and therefore "the exception vs. the rule" in the way i was using the term.
On a personal note, I too think a "zero setback" policy would be ill advised as well. There will always be some legitimate reasons to give some number of Midn setbacks IMHO.
I never heard that at any point in time Classes got their rings as a 3/C that's interesting to me, just as an aside... not remarkable just interesting. Did you still have your ring dance 1st Class Year?
Just a note to the other folks on this thread, as you point out, you recieved first a medical setback and then an academic setback. I've never regarded medical setbacks as an issue and do not feel the fact that someone has recieved one should in anyway become a consideration in any future discussions as to their status or elgibility for an academic or disciplinary setback during theiur tenure at the Academy, nor did I mean through any post on this thread to imply otherwise.