<p>hey, i’m another candidate for 2012. i’ve known i wanted USNA since 7th grade. since then i’ve been doing, reading, listening to, and watching anything that has to do with the academy. if like scubaguy said, if HE wants it he’ll be doing all this sort of stuff soon, too. hopefully he’ll get his act together soon (although it sounds like he already has, despite being “sluggish”). in the end if he doesn’t want it, that’s okay, too. let him do all the research and learn about the academy. throughout the entire process my parents had very little to do with it - mostly buying plane tickets to and from Annapolis and digging up ancient medical history. if he wants it that’ll be motivation enough.</p>