<p>Bill - Ya gotta be busting at the seams. Bragging rights? Uh, they are earned in your case! Enjoy!</p>
<p>USMMA post nothing. No attrition rates, no honors lists, not a thing. Wish they would. I guess I’m looking at it as no news is good news. Word of mouth alone is how we get most of our news. </p>
<p>Beam, at USMMA and some of the other academies they have a saying, “2.0 & go”. Its going to be a bit tougher to get a high GPA for most at an academy. We were told that “D means done” by some of the KP Alumni before our kid went & I think its more than true in most cases there. My kid is making respectable grades but the classes at USMMA get rougher & tougher. Hope he can keep it up. They will soon be going into their third and last trimester for the year. First you have all the worry about them getting in, then it gets replaced by hoping they can cut it because you hear so much about the attrition rates. By word of mouth, we think there may have been up to 40 kids who have left USMMA this year so far, mostly due to academics. Now consider that the entire Plebe class is around 280 kids… Its tough. And scary for a parent.</p>