USNAhopeful2023
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Hi I’m 16 and planning on applying to all the academies, and hoping to be accepted at the Naval Academy specifically. My question is this, I want to get a job to be able to pay for swim meets, driving places, and for some extra-curricular competition math classes that my parents have refused to pay for in the past and that I believe will help me improve at the AMC12 math competition.
However my dad insists that if I get a job at somewhere like my local grocery store, the academies will look down on that because that job isn’t very respectable, he says. He also says that I couldn’t handle both the job and schoolwork, though I take entirely online classes and have a 3.95 unweighted gpa; not to mention it’s summer currently and I wouldn’t continue to work into the school year unless I was sure I could handle it.
So could anyone with admissions knowledge tell me if working at my local grocery store would be looked down on? I’d appreciate some advice here because I want to listen to my father but I also feel that there couldn’t be anything wrong with working over the summer.
However my dad insists that if I get a job at somewhere like my local grocery store, the academies will look down on that because that job isn’t very respectable, he says. He also says that I couldn’t handle both the job and schoolwork, though I take entirely online classes and have a 3.95 unweighted gpa; not to mention it’s summer currently and I wouldn’t continue to work into the school year unless I was sure I could handle it.
So could anyone with admissions knowledge tell me if working at my local grocery store would be looked down on? I’d appreciate some advice here because I want to listen to my father but I also feel that there couldn’t be anything wrong with working over the summer.