Laptop NIST compliance??

Want to be the most competitive for acceptance to competitive institutions, a 4 yr school carries more weight (in my opinion).
Sure, but who are you competing against? Not that you would go wrong at the four year school, but IMNSHO its overkill. If the end goal is to transfer to KP, why go through the effort of getting in to StateU in the first place and incurring the extra costs compared to Schmukatelli Community College.

Put head to head someone who did well at a 4 yr school > someone who did well at a CC.
How many actually have a record from StateU that you are competing against? My guess is literally not much more than a handful.
 
Well just a quick reiteration- buy the laptop...makes your life way easier here. Don't buy and bring a "perfect" computer because it meets the specs, you wont even have administrative rights to install software on it.

As for college applicants go, I personally believe that it depends on the what the person went to school for, how well they did and most of all, their enthusiasm toward KP and the maritime industry and why it is a better option than where they currently attend. I don't think that the type of college matters. I earned an associates degree in welding prior to coming to KP and I believe that this degree was looked upon favorably (for obvious reasons). I was immediately offered a slot to NMMI (also coincidentally a 2 year college) purely to improve my math grades, which in the end really helped me pass calc 1 and 2 here at KP. Personally, I don't think that KP would have looked at me (a C+ high school student) in the same sense if I went to StateU and started my 4 year degree in Underwater Basket Weaving.

My personal belief in regards to classes at the community colleges is this, take the hard classes (calc I and II, Calc-based Physics, Chem I and II, Prob and Stats, etc.) and some basic ones like Econ and English I and II. Gain a lot of exposure to the course material, do as well as you can and learn how to ask for help if needed. SAVE your class syllabus from your college classes and bring them with you, this way if you want to get out of a certain class, you can present it and a transcript to a department head and possibly get out of it. This is usually done on a case by case basis so I wouldn't call Admissions to ask them about a list of classes that USMMA will grantee accepting.

If all else fails, at least you have exposure to the material and you can now apply it to the classes here. Believe me, the classes here move MUCH quicker than a traditional college class so to be able to have an entire semester of exposure will no doubt help you in the end.
 
No you are not screwed...buy/build your own computer and bring it if that is what you want to do you are not forced to buy the computer from the NEX. Don't forget your printer, you may have to lug that too. Just know that you will forfeit your computer to the academy so they can check it out and you will not get it back until pretty close to the end of Indoc. Bring a Black pen, paper, envelopes and stamps...that is the main/only way you will be able to communicate with the outside world since you will forfeit your phone as well and then if you and your company are good you may get a 5 min phone call on Sunday. There is also this thing called the newspaper...I know that is a foreign term to you young people, but, that will be your new form of "social media" and if you want to know what is going on in the outside world consider asking or have your family/friends mail it on a daily basis and you will be able to see what is going on in your community/area and see what your favorite sports teams are doing albeit a few days late.

Again congrats and best of luck on your new journey
Great idea about the newspapers. I'd never thought of that!
 
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