<p>Concur 100%. As much as I’d hate to lose a great candidate to another service or service academy, I have a hard time knocking anyone who wants to apply to all of them, and then make a tough choice about which one to attend after being well-informed. A lot of the candidates don’t even know much about the academies until junior year in high school, when they start getting serious about college.</p>
<p>Unless you have a parent who attended or a sibling at one particular academy, it’s hard to know anything about them or what lies in front of you, and as I’ve said before, I truly beleive that if I’d chosen USMA over USNA, I’d think the sun rose and set on West Point. I applaud anyone who enters any of them - for the right reasons, of course - with the commitment to serve the country.</p>