<p>GoNavyXC,</p>
<p>Thank you for your openness and for posting your course grades for your math and engineering classes.</p>
<p>It’s incredibly helpful for future and current mids - they can see how near-perfection in high school does not always translate into a USNA 4.0 GPA.</p>
<p>My son, a plebe, has at the 12-week point a mix of A’s, B’s and C’s. He’s studying ten times harder than he ever did in high school, and is pretty frustrated - he had a 4.0 unweighted in a very challenging (nearly all AP or IB classes) high school and 700s in both verbal and math SATs. </p>
<p>He has told me the same thing you’ve reported - that plebes with borderline SATs and less rigorous high school coursework are doing better than he is. He is doing some head-scratching right now, trying to figure out what the plebes are doing who have achieved beyond expectations.</p>
<p>The one thing they are doing, he says, is going in to the professors and the tutors on a regular basis. Getting a bit of extra clarification on assignments seems to make all the difference.</p>