<p>FYI
For those interested in what goes on at a Prep School. Son was awarded a Falcon Scholarship, and is attending Northwestern Prep School in the San Bernadino Mountains in Crestline CA. </p>
<p>He has been there for a week. The schedule as close as I can tell goes something like this.
M-F
6:30a - 7:30 Up, Ready, Dorm Inspection (20 males to a dorm-cabin)
7:30 - 8:00 Breakfast
8:00 - 8:30 Vocabulary Quiz - 20 memorized words and definitions
8:45 - 10:00 Class - English
10:15 - 11:30 Study Hall
11:30 - 12:30 Lunch
12:45 - 2:00 Class - Chemistry
2:15- 3:30 Study Hall
3:45 - 5:00 PE
5:00 - 6:00 Free
6:00-7:00 Dinner
7 - 8:15 class Pre Calc
8:30 - 9:45 Study Hall
10:00 - 11:00 Free
11:00 Lights out</p>
<p>Classes may vary as some students may have back to back classes and then double Study halls.</p>
<p>Saturday, - Class in the morning & PE. free time in the afternoon and evening
Sunday - Church service in the morning, dinner at 1:00 - Free Afternoon. Supper @ 6:00pm and then Study Hall at 7:00 pm.</p>
<p>The program sounds very structured and diciplined. During Study Hall there is no talking. And Study Hall is need because of the amount of homework that is given. He said Pushups were used to help students remind them that they need to wear their nametags and also dress neatly. I'm sure there are other things that students need to do. Classroom dress required is Kahki's and Collar shirts, clean and neat haircut.</p>
<p>There are 67 students - 60 male 7 female.</p>
<p>After going thru the application process and being awarded this scholarship, I think this has been the best route for him to take. It gives the students a "Taste" of what Academy life will be like. It is like he was "red-shirted"</p>
<p>OH Yeah. They did take thier cell phones away. They are allowed to use them on weekends. There was no day off for labor day.</p>
<p>A question for you--is a prep school an extension of high school, or does it grant college credit? The only one I've known of is NMMI which is a 2 year AA granting school. Someone asked me the other day, and I didn't know... Congrats to your ds on that Falcon scholarship!</p>
<p>My son is on an AOG (West Point) Scholarship at Marion Military Institute in Marion, Alabama. The Program he is in is called the SAP or Service Academy Program. I believe that there are about one hundred kids in that program this year, with a high percentage of the cadets being sponsored cadets (AOG for West Point, Falcon Scholarship for USAFA, etc.). However, they are not the only cadets on campus. There are two other college programs, an early commisioning program and a regular ROTC junior college program. The schedule is a little more detailed than the one listed above and they do play junior college sports. They also did not get off for Labor Day.</p>
<p>I was a little dubious of my son going to rural Alabama at first, but when I took him in August I was more than pleasantly surprised. The surprise wasn't the physical structure...its not a West Point or Air Force Academy, but the other cadets and professors were wonderful. They actually had a party for the SAP cadets at a professor's house the night before they reported and we got to meet the other cadets, their parents and the professors in a relaxed environment. My son's advisor, a West Point graduate and head of the West Point part of the SAP Program spent a great deal of time with us and made my son feel right at home. In the time since I dropped him off he has had nothing but good things to say about Marion and his professors. He said that his advisor has been great and he has spent a lot of time with him outside of the classroom.</p>
<p>Marion also has a high school prep program like New Mexico Military Institute, but they are phasing out the program. All in all I think there are about four hundred cadets at Marion in the various programs. It has a web site at <a href="http://www.marionmilitary.edu%5B/url%5D">www.marionmilitary.edu</a>. If you have a child with a sponsored scholarship, don't overlook Marion Military Institute.</p>
<p>The son of an acquaintance went to Northwestern when he didn't get an appt from USNA out of h.s. Apparently the experience broadened his horizons, because while he didn't get USNA on his second try, he also applied to USMA, and did get an appt there. He is very happy and playiing his sport for Army.</p>