Naps

Hardball0101 · 03-02-2007, 01:56 PM

I am curious about NAPS. How rigourous is the academics at NAPS? I will be done with my freshman year of college before I go. Will it be a lot of repeat? Also about the athletics. I will most likely play baseball their. I couldn't find where is said whether or not it was officailly sanctioned by the NCAA and if I will lose a year of eligibility?

Bossf51 · 03-02-2007, 02:55 PM

Again congrats. Having been in college you might find the academics a little easier but that's ok

You should be ok with the baseball. Lots of kids play there then go to USNA or USCGA for baseball. I don't think you lose any eligibility. I don't know how your current baseball status will effect that. You could always switch to crew or football for your last year

Back to the academics they emphasize Calculus, Chemistry, English. You will have a definite leg up on your classmates in those subjects as well as the military aspect.

Zaphod is a NAPS guy so maybe he'll jump in and give you the 411.

Hardball0101 · 03-05-2007, 08:45 PM

I just talked to Coach Grant and he told me i would possibly have the option of the New Mexico Military Institute or possibly Marion Military institute as well the NAPS possibility. My big decision is going to be based on more of the fact that I get a stipend at NAPS to help defer my initial costs into the Coast guard academy and frankly after a year of college it would be a nice help. Do i receive a stipend if i went to one of the other schools?

Bossf51 · 03-05-2007, 09:02 PM

I don't think so. I think NAPS is your best bet for a number of reasons. Read some of the other boards about those two schools.

Hardball0101 · 03-05-2007, 09:59 PM

The main reason I was even considering it honestly was for baseball. they get to play a little more than in Rhode Island. However if i don't get a stipend and from the research I was looking at it would end up costing me money. That just doesn't make sense to turn down naps because of that.

Bossf51 · 03-05-2007, 10:27 PM

That's right those schools cost money.

NorthernCalMother · 03-06-2007, 12:46 AM

In addition to Calculus, Chemistry and English, NAPS requires Physics. NAPSters take placement tests to determine whether they need Foundation, Intermediate or Advanced level in each of those classes. As you probably know, @ the academies you can "validate," or test out of, certain classes, which gives you extra flexibility there. W/ a year of college and NAPS, you'd have an advantage re: validating.

There are a lot of recruited athletes @ NAPS, and they seem to compete w/ prep schools and small comm'ty colleges -- I don't think they lose NCAA eligibility. (Son's @ NAPS now.)

longrun12 · 03-06-2007, 10:28 AM

If you our presently in the alternate pool could you end up with an appointment to NAPS?

Bossf51 · 03-06-2007, 10:35 AM

It's possible but from what I hear that doesn't usually happen.

JTRW3990 · 03-06-2007, 04:48 PM

what are the criteria to be selected for NAPS? is it mostly the recruited sportsmen and prior enlisted? Also would you wear a Naval or CG uniform while at NAPS?

Bossf51 · 03-06-2007, 05:33 PM

It is for: prior enlisted; athletes; underrepresented groups; and in general anyone who is a good candidate but needs to beef up their academics. While there you wear a Coast Guard uniform. Check the NAPS web site which answers most of these types of questions. Good luck.

ColbyBuss · 03-07-2007, 09:49 PM

Man I would love to be accepted into NAPS

I mean, its like being given a year's advantage over the other people going into the academy fresh!

NorthernCalMother · 03-07-2007, 10:09 PM

I am dazzled by the military knowledge my son is acquiring @ NAPS, and also by the briefings the NAPSters are offered re: military specializations. Friendships w/ priors also give him a reality check re: his future. He's in extraordinary physical shape --I thought he was before he left for NAPS, but I was wrong! -- and when he wants to debate his instructor's sometimes physics-skewed approach to differentials in Calculus, I'm mighty impressed by the academics as well. (Also, struck dumb by my lousy memory, even though I was a math major, but that's another story.)

As a parent of kid w/ an academy dream, I was disappointed when he got NAPS. Now I think this was a huge gift that will make his first year dramatically smoother. I delivered a wonderful boy to Newport; by Parents' Weekend, I was greeted by a wonderful young man.

I agree w/ ColbyBuss: NAPS is an extraordinary advantage.

Hardball0101 · 03-07-2007, 10:59 PM

Thats kind of how I feel. I want to go on to flight school and every advantage I can take in graduating higher in my class is a welcome one to me. Also one other thing i found out today. I talked to the academy and if i go to one of the other prep schools everything is covered. Tuition and then I get a stipend for my room and board.

Suffice it to say it may have changed my mind about which school is preferred. especially considering how incredibly nice the weather is in New Mexico for baseball.

Zaphod · 04-02-2007, 03:52 PM

Sorry I took so long to find this. Only did so because I search my screen name every now and then.

If you have successfully completed one year of college, and you did it doing a curriculum similar to the Plebe curriculum, then you should be fine. I did very well at NAPS, and then proceeded to get my butt thoroughly whipped at USNA, but that was largely my own stupid fault. If you apply yourself you'll be fine.

I can't help you with the NCAA question. I was never in varsity athletics after HS.