<p>If you NEED to, then HELL YES!</p>
<p>If you don't, then why would you?</p>
<p>that was my problem at NAPS....I went out EVERY weekend. </p>
<p>So, in a sense, I'll be thanking God that I cant go anywhere plebe year</p>
<p>I take it there is no grade inflation like the thing they talk about with the ivy leagues?</p>
<p>I don't believe in that anyway. You get the grade you deserve, and I'm sure any graduate school knows that the US Naval Academy is a bizatch of a school.</p>
<p>Sorry to somewhat change the subject but does the academy have graduate schools?</p>
<p>That varies from instructor to instructor.</p>
<p>My Chemistry professor handed out A's to anyone with a 70% or higher. My Physics professor gave you 40% gratis.</p>
<p>I STILL managed to almost fail both courses because I DIDN'T STUDY!</p>
<p>As for "not having anything to do plebe year", you're wrong. You can go and hang out at your sponsor's house, and believe you me, the LAST thing you want to do there is study. Don't know what hours the plebes have "off" these days, and that is a factor, too.</p>
<p>The Academies DO NOT have graduate schools (Well, USNA doesn't at any rate, and I've never heard any of the other Big Three having one. KP might; I don't know.)</p>
<p>wait...you didnt study because you didnt want to or time? or both?</p>
<p>Consider that you will take 18-20 hours. Physcial Education classes which you show up but don't count under academic hours (add another 1-2 hours per the normal college student) and you are taking the equivalent of 19-22 hours for almost 4 years. I took only 15 hours my senior year (I went to summer school and took a class to ease the burden during academic year plus my advisor thought I had to even when I told him his math wasn't correct. I switched majors, he was also a Math prof...go figure. My senior year he then asked me why I went to summer school since I had enough credits to graduate taking only 15 senior year). Anyway, taking 15 hours which is the minimum at the boat school, I felt like I was on vacation. </p>
<p>Remember, you have military obligations such as watches, duty, marching, etc and YOU will play a sport. If you're attending college at a civilian university you'd think 15-18 hours was hard and you would still have so much free time. At Navy, free time = rack time or you're actively doing something else off campus or working out. Enjoy your summer before you get there, it'll be a whirlwind experience Plebe summer/year.</p>
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<p>Because I was a lazy little idiot who spent more time screwing off than really applying himself.</p>
<p>Throw in that my gift for being able to easily absorb material just by listening to it in class completely FAILED me at USNA, and you have the result.</p>
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LOL! Amen! :D</p>
<p>BTW, I'm not saying I would have gotten a 4.0 had I studied a little more. I'm saying I could (and should) have done a whole lot better than I did, and without suffering through 1.55 adventures.</p>
<p>Nope, no graduate/doctorate degree programs at any of the 5 service academies. (Though you can work toward your graduate degree at USNA while enrolled as a mid...special program)</p>
<p>The Navy has a postgraduate school although it is not at the academy. Here is the website:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nps.edu/Academics/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.nps.edu/Academics/index.html</a></p>