NAPS offers 2022

I agree with the actual name, and if the format allowed any additional info:
Aetos has been invited to attend the Naval Academy Preparatory School in Newport, Rhode Island, a fully-funded intense course to prepare him/her for an opportunity to enter the Naval Academy, Class of 2028.
The majority uses naval academy ‘28
 
The majority uses naval academy ‘28
The majority of ?

I would hope Naval Academy would be capitalized as a proper noun in any written reference or graduation program or by anyone aspiring to graduate from there.

The text I wrote was in response to someone looking for ideas as to what could be read aloud at a school ceremony, thus I wrote the clearly understandable version of the next destination being the Naval Academy Preparatory School (which I would assume most in the audience would not be aware of) and then the clarification that it was a fully-funded course to prepare someone for the opportunity to attend the Naval Academy, which also makes clear the student has not been appointed to the Class of 2028 but has been chosen for a special program. It’s the version of “headed to NAPS, USNA ‘28 hopeful” that makes sense for external audiences.

Sure, you will find “old grads” informally writing their name in a USNA setting as “W.T. Door, ‘78,” but Class of 1978 or USNA ‘78 is just as common in the wider world of all things Naval Academy. That ‘78 started belonging to that class on the day they took their oath, just as all other class years do. ‘78 is the 50-year Link In The Chain class for the Class of 2028. Paging @OldRetSWO and any other ‘78 alumni here to take over from this apparently witless non-grad!
 
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