<p>So here is my dilemma. I recently was accepted for the Naval Academy Foundation Civil Prep School. USAFA is my first choice but I haven’t heard anything from them yet on Prep School options (apparently I won’t until Feb). Both USAFA and USNA told me that my last SAT Math Score of 510 was not competitive enough for an appointment. They hadn’t turned me down but it was rather just a warning to let me know. I took the November 1st SAT and got a 630 on my math and everything else is up in the 600’s now too. My Liaison officer for Navy (BGO) told me he was really happy and would make sure that the academy looked back through my file and that from his expirience and me being from Montana, i had a VERY HIGH chance of an appointment to Navy. I haven’t heard anything from USAFA yet. I am 100% accepted to the Prep school under a Navy scholarship if nothing else, but because it was for Navy I am not allowed to go to the prep school (Northwestern Prep) with the Navy Foundation, then apply to Air Force, that and ethically it would be completely wrong to do. So my dilemma is that Air Force is my first choice, but if they decide to only give me a Falcon Foundation Scholarship and not an appointment, yet Navy goes all the way with an appointment, how can I choose? I signed that I would go to Navy if I get an appointment there and not to any other academy I am interested in, but if I don’t get one to Air Force I ethically cannot go back on my decision UNLESS I get an appointment to USAFA. in addition, I do not want to throw away my chance at Navy in order to keep tryin for Air Force, and then not get it either, and therefore end up with NOTHING when I could have gone Navy. I understand the bias I will get seeing as this is on the Air Force page and I do really want to be at USAFA, but it is still INCREDIBLY hard to think all this through. However, I still might get an appointment to the Class of 2013 for USAFA and then all this would just be washed away seeing as I could then turn down a Navy Appointment for an Air Force one, but that would be the BEST Scenario and obviously, the best is not always what happens. Any advice? or if anyone might have had this same problem? I am trying to make the best ethical choice on this and it still is hard. Any help is GREATLY appreciated. 
Thank you all and…
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So my dilemma is that Air Force is my first choice, but if they decide to only give me a Falcon Foundation Scholarship and not an appointment, yet Navy goes all the way with an appointment, how can I choose?
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<p>That's easy. If USAFA is your first choice:</p>
<p>Accept the Falcon Foundation scholarship, decline the USNA appointment, and show up in Colorado Springs on I-Day in June 2010 with the Class of 2014.</p>
<p>Bias aside...</p>
<p>Would you really be happy at the Naval Academy and then the Navy?</p>
<p>Simple answer...you will owe at least 9 yrs of your life (4 at the acad + 5 afterwards, longer if you fly). The academy experience is not worth the price you will pay if it is not the branch you want to serve in, b/c you will serve in it.</p>
<p>I can tell by your moniker that you want to fly. Add into the equation that you might not fly. I am a realist and put things out there in a blunt manner. You have so many twists in the road ahead of you that you might not ever fly...i.e. graduating from the AFA (look up the curriculum, there is a lot of math and science ahead...this is why they have a cut off for SAT's and why the AFA is known as the little engineering school in the Rockies) med., AF pipeline slowing down, making it through UPT and then FTU. When Bullet went through FTU for 111's an AFA grad was FEB and lost his wings with only 2 or 3 flights left...he still owed time back to the AF and flew a desk. Will you be happier on land in the AF or on a boat in the Navy? If it is on the ground than you should look into going to a university with ROTC and try again next yr if you feel your life will be a what if without the AFA. Our DS decided to take the ROTC scholarship after meeting with his ROTC commander, the commander had told him that if he decided to re-apply he would give his full support. He has decided to stay at his college, b/c he wants the degree that his University offers and not what the AFA does. He also felt he wanted the college experience more than the AFA(staying up late, going into DC with friends anytime he wants and not sleeping on top of his bed b/c it is easier to make ;)). He has no what ifs about not going to the AFA.</p>
<p>My daughter did a year of prep with a USMA AOG scholarship at MMI. The year she was there there was a guy who was sponsored by one academy, ended up applying to the other "big" two - so he applied to USMA, USNA and USAFA and got appointments to all three. The school he ultimately chose was different than his sponsored school.</p>
<p>Her AOG Scholarship came with a "moral" obligation to repay the money if she was offered an appointment and chose not to report to R-day.</p>
<p>BTW - Luigi is right - I have heard of lots of kids turning down appointments to one academy to accept a prep offer at another.</p>
<p>MY advice - it is early in the year. Anything you accept now is not binding legally or even morally IMO. Accept offers as they come in if that is what you want. All's fair in love and war.</p>
<p>There is a couple guys here at the P school that got appointments to USNA and yet chose an extra year here to become Air Force officers. Just like bulletandpima said, evaluate yourself and then make your decision based on where you would be happy - service academies are not the only option to a free education and a commission. If you really want to be an AF officer, I would suggest also applying for a couple civie schools with AFROTC options.</p>
<p>Ya...it all makes sense. haha
"BTW - Luigi is right - I have heard of lots of kids turning down appointments to one academy to accept a prep offer at another."
Thats just what I was curious about. I wasn't sure about how that would go but thats alot of help from everyone. :D Thank you all VERY much. It is a huge help, beleive me.</p>