<p>If you get rejected but do NROTC on a scholarship, re-apply and get an appointment, do you have to start as a plebe? If so can you recieve credit for the classes you took at a civilian college so that you can graduate on schedule?</p>
<p>You will start life as a plebe whether you have one year of college (even with ROTC) or 3, under your belt....</p>
<p>you can receive credit for the courses you took, but you won't graduate any earlier, just have a lighter course load.</p>
<p>Most departments at USNA require a validation test to receive academic credit. I have never heard of a department allowing a previous college course (at another College/University) to be used in place of a validation exam to receive academic credit at USNA. Though, your chances of validating an exam should increase if you have prior experience. </p>
<p>So, say you take Chemistry at XYZ university. You can only validate Chemistry at USNA if you score high enough on the chemistry validation test, administered during plebe summer, or receiving appropriate AP scores.</p>
<p>Bottom line......you will still spend 4 years at the academy (which ever you choose) and you will still move through the 4-class system.</p>
<p>Actually, for somethings (like economics, biology, etc) if you submit info like a syllabus from previous college courses and sometimes have an interview with department heads, then you can validate courses. Those things don't have standard validation tests (thinking more unusual courses like economics, bio, philosophy, there was a list of unusual validations at the end of plebe summer)</p>
<p>On the subject of validating courses, if you are accepted (this whole thread was out of curiousity, I'm a sophomore) can you take validations or use AP exams to get out of any clases to lighted your workload?</p>
<p>Yes, you can -- a 5 on an AP English will validate you for first semester English, for example. That means that you go straight to English 2. It's not like you get CREDIT because of the tests, but it puts you up to the next level of classes. Does that make sense?</p>
<p>The ONE THING that I would encourage EVERYONE to try is to validate Chem 1. Plebe chemistry SUCKS BEYOND BELIEF; if you validate it, then you don't have to do these awful web assignments. I tried to help my classmates with them occasionally, and they were truly horrible and very hard. Validating languages is also a good thing.</p>
<p>marmadillo- how nasty hard is the validation of chem 1?</p>
<p>webassign literally almost ended my life plebe year. physics is definitely better.</p>
<p>ummmm...gosh it was so long ago!! I would say if you took AP Chem than you're definitely OK.</p>