<p>Whats up guys!
I am a candidate for appointment into USMA 2017. However, let me warn you guys that I graduated from high school June 2011 and started Community College August of that year. I completed my first year (and a semester) in 2012 and am now going into my second semester of my second year. In the event I get accepted into USMA it would most likely be the prep school (USMAPS) rather than THE academy (according to what my diversity admissions officer told me over the phone) By the time I graduate from USMA it will be the year 2018 and I will be a 25 year old newly commissioned 2nd Lt. Many people tell me to go through the ordinary college ROTC program but I don't trust it because our military will be getting smaller and smaller making it harder and harder to get a commission. In my eyes I think going to USMAPS is better, I just have that old, what I like to call, "high school" ego lingering around and it is because of this ego that I think twice about whether I should carry out my plan of going to USMAPS. Basically, I start worrying about the fact that my kid brother who is in 9th grade (I am the oldest of the two) will start college while I am in my junior year of college. Another worrisome ideology is the fact that I will graduate 3 years behind my original class and 2 years behind my second brothers class, leaving me with a bunch of "kids" My father even told me that I would be finishing up a B.s. degree in seven years when I should be getting a masters or a dental degree.</p>