Good counsel, but ironically, isn't that precisely what someones might have offered you a few years back, as you might have determined to pursue admission to USNA? "Work hard, Johnny! The cream always rises ..."
Not if today's PCers have any say about it. Can't pass the test? Must be a lousy test. Can't make the SATs? Oh well, they shouldn't count anyway 'cause I once knew a Czar who only scored 350. And now he's the Treasury Sec.!
Here's hoping, praying that the American Dream isn't totally fading into the sunset of PC ...all in the name of EOC and its contiguous warped notions "given" by those who deem certain groups and individuals are incapable of attaining it on their own. What a disservice to all, especially the shiloh's and navy07s.
Yea, that's what Americans want? Not this one.