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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Air Force Academy isn't all that prestigious, but West Point and Annapolis are. But it's still very specialized. Grads concentrate in engineering, defense contracting, etc. I've heard from others that they have a fairly low percentage who go on to professional schools, largely because they have multi-year service commitments and a lot of them end up getting married too, are fairly far along in their careers when they finally go civilian.

In terms of prestige, I would put them a notch or two below the ivy league foremost employers. But for some employers, particularly those in the defense industry, probably a notch above.[/quote]

Maybe the ones who exit as soon as their military commitment is done don’t go on to additional schooling,but career officers usually have multiple masters degrees by the time they retire.  They may not be from top 10 schools but they are often given a year just to focus on school. Heck, my FIL got an MBA from UVA in the Air Force and went on to get PhD in economics from Wharton way back in the 60s. [/quote]

I agree on their graduates not being in top professional schools. I had only one service academy grad in my law school class, and I just asked my wife about her medical school class and she had none. We were both in top 10 schools.[/quote]

I personally know service academy graduates with PhDs from Harvard, Princeton, Chicago, and Oxford, [b]so you and your wife are pretty ignorant[/b].[/quote]

This is a pretty dumb comment.  Why am I ignorant?  I went to Columbia for law school, while my wife went there for medical school at the same time.  One service academy grad in my class, and none in hers.  I can't change those facts.  Maybe they were all at Harvard, Princeton, Chicago, and Oxford getting PhDs, but they definitely weren't at Columbia in law (except for one) or medicine at that time (not giving the exact year, to keep some anonymity, but not ancient here).[/quote]

The most talented get accepted to the Military Med School.  Imagine graduating from undergrad and med school with no loans!   It is very hard to get accepted into the program.  I know 2 drs who went that path.  They could have gone to just about any med school in the country.  [/quote]

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