<p>No, on the interview issue. The issues with potential for trumping superior academics are identified needs of the Navy – diversity, athletics, gender in by-gone days. You may get some lip service about interview skills, amazing ECs, etc., but absent of specific, examples illumining such claims, believe them not. </p>
<p>Generally the academies are not well suited nor inclined to appointing or supporting students w/ LDs, nor is the fleet. While your questions are no doubt genuine and well intentioned, they may be better directed to USNA admission officials. Your needs seem to go beyond the capacity of a blog to edify.</p>