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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I get it, OP. I come from a part of the country where I didnt know a single military member/vet other than my drafted grandfathers. Not a single person from my graduating class of 550 went into the military. When my sister’s boyfriend ended up attending the naval academy the following year, we were all fairly shocked—it wasn’t a typical path. (To be completely transparent though, he had applied to a handful of civilian schools and didn’t get in—USNA was the only option he had once decisions came out).

It worked out well for him, but it wasn’t until moving to DC that I learned it’s considered prestigious. I assumed at the time it had been his safety school since it was the only one he got into, lol.[/quote]

Bullshit.[/quote]

I don’t know how to prove it is true, but it really is. This was 2005 in an area where the closest (tiny) military bases were hours away. It just wasn’t a thing in my life at that time. Totally different mentality in dc adjacent areas, where I now have more military acquaintances than I can count.[/quote]

I think the bullshit refers to "it was his only option."  And I agree.  Unless he only applied to Harvard, Princeton, Yale and Stanford.  [/quote]

Right there is 0% chance that his ONLY option was the Naval Academy.  0%.[/quote]

I don’t know what to tell you. He applied to 3 traditional schools (Harvard was one, the other two were SLACs in our home state) and all 3 denied him. He went to USNA. He should have applied to more safeties, clearly, but 20 years ago applying to 10+ schools wasn’t a thing and I guess he overshot.[/quote]

Sorry, but I don't buy it.

Name the SLACs.  You can easily do that without outing him or yourself.  [/quote]

Pomona and Claremont McKenna.

I am not making this up. Both are extremely selective now, not sure what it was like in 2005. Obviously Harvard was still  selective, lol.

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So he only applied to four of the most selective schools in the country. That was a big gamble. “His only choice”  needs that context.  Without it, it sounds like he couldn’t have gotten in anywhere else and that’s not at all accurate. [/quote]

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