Chances for applying at the USNA?

candidatemom
Thu, 14 Jul 2005 06:45:08 +0000

I want to understand, but am having difficulty.

You have graduated from home school, think you might want to apply to USNA, and are doing what? Working in a business and taking online courses?

Why have you not enrolled in a real college? What are you doing come this September? Even if you start the application process for the USNA class of 2010, what will you have done with yourself for the 05-06 academic year? It doesn’t sound as if you have a real plan for life. If you wait to apply for the class of 2011, you will have been “graduated” for two years. What will you have to show for it? And if you apply and are not accepted, you will have floundered around for 2 full years.

Appointed candidates have demonstrated a real committment to a goal, and have worked dilligently toward it. Unless I am missing something, you have not demonstrated that committment. Fifty miles to get to an opportunity that might further one’s ability to reach his/her goal is not an unsurmountable obstacle. Many people commute farther than that daily.

You need to position yourself in the best possible light. My first suggestion is to decide what you want from life. What are your career goals. Second, design a path to achieve those goals. Third, go to school or get training, and follow that path.

If USNA is part of that goal, then you have a lot of catch-up in planning to do, the first of which is to formulate an immediate educational plan for 05-06.

Good Luck in your quest.
CM