<p>Ann:</p>
<p>You and I actually agree on nearly everything - if you all would go back and look at my post - I said I would encourage him to stay and NOT quit mid semester.
I, too, agree that most Cadets who leave during their first semester are not giving it a fair shot. </p>
<p>What I disagree with is the leap that was made:</p>
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<p>I disagree that pondering a decision to choose between two great opportunities, necessarily indicates an early warning sign.
I thought it showed maturity - that he was seriously considering his choices and not approaching either one aimlessly.<br>
How can one possibly make the leap that - even considering another choice besides his appointment makes one unfit to accept the appointment? I just don’t think you can tie the two together. I am sure there are cadets thriving at West Point now who seriously considered other choices when they accepted their appointments. I don’t think his thought in April should be coming back to haunt him now.</p>
<p>I took issue with Chirstcorp’s comment:
Look, getting an appointment is a competition. You are competing against all the other qualfied candidtates out there for one. That person who didn’t get selected - did not get selected for a reason.</p>
<p>Let’s say your son is running in a track and he juuussttttt misses qualifiying in the finals - you stay and watch. The kid that beat him is dq’d on a false start. Do you jump up and proclaim that this kid wasted his spot in the finals? That your kid could have done better if the dq’d kid didn’t take a spot away from one who really wanted to be there?</p>
<p>I don’t think there is enough information to take even a wild guess as to what is going on with Pyoo. Far be it from me to judge what his intentions are/were or if he should leave/stay.
There are many many factors that can overwhelm a desire to attend WP -
USNA69 is correct about homesickness - this is an end all for many many kids - not only those at academies.
Then there is getting yelled at constantly. Some people just can’t handle it and they crumble. This does not mean they went “for all the wrong reasons”.</p>
<p>When my daughter visted in April - the cadre were talking about running out a plebe. They really wanted to get rid of him. So - yes plebe are and can be “run out”.</p>