William and Mary vs. Naval Academy

Jssaab1
Thu, 03 Apr 2014 17:34:36 +0000

^^^ I agree wholeheartedly with the above, W&M is an excellent school. Although I am biased, my son is having an excellent time as a junior he was just offered a summer internship with IBM in Big data science. they told him offers are around 76K for kids with his background and they LOVE W&M students.

That said, you do know that going to a service academy requires 6 years of service. That is 6 years at officers pay ( generally lower than what you can get in the private sector). But after that graduates are highly considered for more senior managers level positions at companies ( my brother was made a VP after serving only 6 years, several years before his high school friends.

Frankly I am surprised you were offered admission to an academy, they usually seek out students who live ( and die) to serve. My brother went to Annapolis ( electrical engeering) and he studied war history for fun from 10 years old, perfect type they said.

A kid in our neighbor hood went to West Point and graduated 4 years ago, served in Iraq, came back with only one leg… just saying, its still a FABULOUS education and FREE!!! Worth about 250K I have heard. But if you are not dedicated to service I am not sure the risk is worth it, as low as it may be, its still a risk you don;t get when attending W&M ( if you are not ROTC )

Also your costs at W&M are WAY off… OOS is 33K Tuition and 8,500 room and board, way less for me than my sons other choices CMU and NYU…

And W&M has an excellent reputation for professional school admissions. You should also know that not “everyone wants to be a doctor” in fact applications are way low, since its very expensive to go to med school and payback is long and getting longer with reduced reimbursements.