Roadking
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A friends DS was denied admission on April 15th and is reapplying to USNA. He is a hockey player who has been recruited to play Junior Hockey and has chosen to take a gap year to improve his hockey skills instead of attending college. He will be living away from home with a billet family and he will be at the rink Monday-Friday 9am-3pm for practice, games on the weekends traveling from North Carolina to New Hampshire. He is committed and definitely doesn’t want to go to college yet. He has researched college hockey and the vast majority of college players play juniors before college, the average age of a freshman hockey player is 20.
Question is this, what would be his best chance of appointment, take some online college courses or just study for the ACT tests in September, October and November? He has a 35 in English and a 29 in Math. Would he be better served concentrating on getting that Math score up or take some college classes online? Would USNA even give consideration to online classes or is that a waste of time? Would it be disqualifying to take a gap year with no college, even with a good ACT and stellar extra curricular activities? Thanks for your input.
Question is this, what would be his best chance of appointment, take some online college courses or just study for the ACT tests in September, October and November? He has a 35 in English and a 29 in Math. Would he be better served concentrating on getting that Math score up or take some college classes online? Would USNA even give consideration to online classes or is that a waste of time? Would it be disqualifying to take a gap year with no college, even with a good ACT and stellar extra curricular activities? Thanks for your input.