As amazing as the Academy is, it is an entire lifestyle not just a school. Meaning your schedule is not your own. You are basically in the Navy for the 4 years you are there meaning your choices and many activities come at the needs of the Navy not yours. I am saying all of this because it is hard to get through the Academy and live on the yard for students that love the lifestyle and can not wait to serve where ever the Navy places them after. The other poster is right they also do not have a ChemE program. I totally also understand your hesitance to turn down a full ride. As a parent I will tell you both my kids had full ride offers (one had 2 of them) and I told them if they genuinely could not see those schools as a good fit and be happy then they should not go and they did not. Both are thriving at their schools. What I did ask was for them to do 2 things. 1. really consider the school. 2. try hard to get outside scholarships and funding. They did both and as a parent I am at peace and in fact happy with their choices.
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