USMMA->Reserves->Grad/Med School?

[SponsPrep2024]

I am currently a sponsored USMMA prep and will be attending NMMI this coming year. I was wondering if anyone has heard of someone graduating KP and going reserves for a service, then attending graduate or medical school?

 

[joriebelle]

My brother sailed for a year after graduating, then went to law school for maritime law, was a lawyer for a short time and hated it so went back to sea and ended up progressing to Chief Engineer on a shipping line on the Great Lakes.

 

[SponsPrep2024]

My brother sailed for a year after graduating, then went to law school for maritime law, was a lawyer for a short time and hated it so went back to sea and ended up progressing to Chief Engineer on a shipping line on the Great Lakes.

So it is possible. Thank you! I just had not heard of anyone doing that from all the people I have talked to so far.

 

[Mr2020]

My brother sailed for a year after graduating, then went to law school for maritime law, was a lawyer for a short time and hated it so went back to sea and ended up progressing to Chief Engineer on a shipping line on the Great Lakes.

So it is possible. Thank you! I just had not heard of anyone doing that from all the people I have talked to so far.

It's not possible to go to law school right after KP unless you're doing it on a military contract or on Active Duty. Something they let fly in the past won't fly today.

You have these options:
Military or Uniformed Service (like Public Health or NOAA)
Sailing licensed or unlicensed with waiver
Shoreside maritime related with waiver
Maritime related graduate education; I think this one is a deferment, so you owe reports on 5 years of work after you finish that. I know of nobody who has ever used this.

 

[KPEngineer]

You can go to grad school right out of KP ... just not full time.

 

[SponsPrep2024]

You can go to grad school right out of KP ... just not full time.

That is more how I assumed the process would work

 

[Mr2020]

My brother sailed for a year after graduating, then went to law school for maritime law, was a lawyer for a short time and hated it so went back to sea and ended up progressing to Chief Engineer on a shipping line on the Great Lakes.

So it is possible. Thank you! I just had not heard of anyone doing that from all the people I have talked to so far.

It's not possible to go to law school right after KP unless you're doing it on a military contract or on Active Duty. Something they let fly in the past won't fly today.

You have these options:
Military or Uniformed Service (like Public Health or NOAA)
Sailing licensed or unlicensed with waiver
Shoreside maritime related with waiver
Maritime related graduate education; I think this one is a deferment, so you owe reports on 5 years of work after you finish that. I know of nobody who has ever used this.

You can go to grad school right out of KP ... just not full time.

Is it possible to sail or be on active duty full time as an 0-1 and go to law school on the side? Theoretically you could probably do a MS/PhD in something like oceanography or port/terminal ops as a deckie full time. Assume you can do an MS in Marine Engineering full time and use that provision of the agreement as well.

Do you know anyone who went to law school on the side right after graduation?

 

[beyond]

My brother sailed for a year after graduating, then went to law school for maritime law, was a lawyer for a short time and hated it so went back to sea and ended up progressing to Chief Engineer on a shipping line on the Great Lakes.

So it is possible. Thank you! I just had not heard of anyone doing that from all the people I have talked to so far.

It's not possible to go to law school right after KP unless you're doing it on a military contract or on Active Duty. Something they let fly in the past won't fly today.

You have these options:
Military or Uniformed Service (like Public Health or NOAA)
Sailing licensed or unlicensed with waiver
Shoreside maritime related with waiver
Maritime related graduate education; I think this one is a deferment, so you owe reports on 5 years of work after you finish that. I know of nobody who has ever used this.

You can go to grad school right out of KP ... just not full time.

Is it possible to sail or be on active duty full time as an 0-1 and go to law school on the side? Theoretically you could probably do a MS/PhD in something like oceanography or port/terminal ops as a deckie full time. Assume you can do an MS in Marine Engineering full time and use that provision of the agreement as well.

Do you know anyone who went to law school on the side right after graduation?

I know a guy who skipped his own graduation because he had already started law school at Columbia. 08ish grad? Works for the state department now.

 

[cmakin]

There are certainly a whole bunch of KPers that are lawyers. I often do work for one of my classmates here in Houston. There are also a few doctors, too.

 

[kelith]

You could try to gain admittance to the the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences the military medical school located in Bethesda, Maryland. I quote from their website:

"As a USUHS student, you are commissioned as an active duty O-1 with all that entails. As such, you earn an income between $50-60k annually broken down into taxable base pay, and non-taxable Basic Allowance for Housing (which differs based on geographic location and marital status) and Basic Allowance for Sustenance; specifics can be found online under military pay charts. Further,
tuition and text books are free. This means that a USUHS student should graduate debt free and in fact come out ahead financially."

So you would owe time for your KP education and your medical school education. But if you want to be a doc it is a good option. I have known doctors who spent years on active duty and left to "make money in the real world". Of course the real world entails them arguing with clerks with an associates degree in general studies hired by the health insurance provider to screen whether treatment plans were reasonable and necesary. SO back onto active duty they went and were happy to do it.

But I do not know if KP would give you the hard science background for medical school.

In terms of grad school, you would probably be admitted somewhere. I agree you would probably wind up doing it part time.

 

[KPButterflyer]

I am currently a sponsored USMMA prep and will be attending NMMI this coming year. I was wondering if anyone has heard of someone graduating KP and going reserves for a service, then attending graduate or medical school?

Yoooo weren't you the swimmer from Tucson ford?