So how did your S/D make THE decision?

LFWB_dad
Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:57:41 +0000

LFWB choices were between USNA and USMMA. (the only two schools he applied to)

My son grew up living and dying the Naval Academy. He even had his birthday parties at Navy football games. He did his sophomore science fair project at Rickover Hall. There was nobody who wanted to go to the Naval Academy more than he did.

But his junior year in HS one of our friends who was a Company Officer at USNA suggested that he also look at Kings Point.

He did an overnight his junior year and then after he did NASS he did another overnight the summer before his senior year.

His reasons were that his main goal is to become an Officer in the US Navy which he could do from either school; He liked the idea of actually going to sea and working at sea for a year rather than just during summers; (that was very much reinforced after actually having gone to sea last year for four months and circumnavigating the earth and actually managing operations on the bridge of a 700ft ship – he went back to sea Monday for eight months); he felt the Midshipman at KP were more down to earth than the Mids at USNA – no “rock star” mentality; he liked having access to Manhattan; and he liked being able to compete on a varsity team – DIII vs DI.

Those were his reasons for chosing USMMA over USNA before going there. They have only been reinforced.

Besides the fact that he tells me he’s pleased with his decision everytime I ask him, the observables are that I have one happy, challenged, and very enthusiastic kid. And that’s all I hoped for no matter where he went to school.