<p>I don't guess the ol' war horses are still posting over here; shogun, others?</p>
<p>Anyway, DD just came back from SS at Naval Academy. She said the people who went to WP summer program [excuse me I'm not up to speed on USMA terms yet] sounded as if the WP program was better organized, better gear, etc.</p>
<p>Anyway, she has been cosidering NA but now is "maybe" intrigued by WP.</p>
<p>My real question is about law school [other professional schools] coming out of WP. YES, I know, primary mission is to graduate ARmy officers, etc.
BUT, my perception is that WP is "friendlier" to those who may be interested in either law or medical upon graduation. At least friendlier to those notions than Naval Academy.</p>
<p>AGAIN, I know that the path is not easy for those who want to go to a professional school. BUT, it is done and I think I have heard that WP at least offers classes leading to those pursuits.</p>
<p>Dont know much about the law program Bill, but I know that you cant go to law school immediaely after graduation–I believe some service is required first (2 years seems to stick in my head). Our daughter attended both summer seminars years back and had the same comments your daughter had. Good luck to her and nice to hear from you! Currently our gal is now in Afghanistan as an intel officer.</p>
<p>Well, this is a bit of a surprise to us. Go Navy! and all that. She did not sign up for SLS but maybe now we will look for her to attend a weekend in the fall.</p>
<p>Let me see if she actually opens a file and move ahead or not. I’m supposed to be in NY in Aug; we may try to visit during that time.</p>
<p>How does your daughter like intel?</p>
<p>Along the lines of the original question, it seems Army is more encouraging to those who, eventually, want to go JAG, etc.
I know Navy require fleet qualification also before professional schools but there are some age limitations that work against the aspiring applicant. In other words, one has to be applying to law school, more or less, by the fourth year [which means taking LSAT and all that during your active duty time] in order to meet the JAG age limitations. [I think, if one is active duty officer, you have be younger than 27 [26?] at time application is made to transfer JAG.]</p>
<p>I assume Army may be similar.<br>
It seems WP is more hospitable to history/political science/similar types of degree plans. Navy is fine w/ those [up to about 30% of class] degrees but not exactly encouraging.</p>
<p>It used to be that graduation ranking determined some of what cadets did after graduation from USMA. So if someone wanted to go to med school, they needed to graduate near the top. Of course, every school the gov’t pays for requires extra time commitment. I don’t know whether cadets still choose by class rank or not.</p>
<p>Ja its still dependent on class ranking–best spots go to those at the top. First you are ranked in your class to get first shot at branch, then ranked again within your chosen branch to get first pick at where you will be posted. Daughter has been posted to Germany a little over a year now and loves it. She leases a house just outside Baumholder which is in southwest Germany. She has been deployed to Afghanistan since early March so we are lucky to get a one liner email every 3 weeks or so (its been a month since we heard from her last). She seems to love what she’s doing (but if she actually told us what it was she’d have to kill us, lol). Near as we can tell she does a lot of travelling in her Brigade’s area of operations via helicoptor or on the ground.
Oh to be young again…</p>
<p>You may want to do some research when it comes to the Army Educational Delay program. This allows you to delay your commission to go to Med/Law School/ It’s very competitive as it only accepts about 200 applicants per year.</p>