<p>I wanted to say thank you to the person who sent me a private message about their child's experience in being unable to get into a service academy because of health problems. I'd like to message you back, but I don't have enough posts on CC to be allowed to do so (I've spent the past week looking for a workaround to this).</p>
<p>In any case, thank you. I appreciated your words of understanding and support.</p>
<p>I don’t know how many posts you need, but just start going around a commenting on threads all over the place (just not in the parent cafe where you won’t earn points). Seems a big gratutious but at least then you can PM people.</p>
<p>I didn’t see your posts, but do you know about the serviceacademyforums dot com? There is tons of great advise there about academies and also ROTC.</p>
<p>My DS is currently a sophomore in college on a full tuition ROTC scholarship. He wasn’t interested in the academies but wants to be a military doctor.</p>
<p>I can answer questions related to ROTC. There are ways to get medical clearance, but of course it depends on the issue at hand. On the above mentioned forum look for the DODMERB thread because it discusses medical issues and what can be done (if anything).</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>MODERATOR’S NOTE: </p>
<p>You need 15 posts, in forums other than cafes or High School Life, in order to send PMs.</p>
<p>The reason for this is that spammers were registering on CC and immediately sending PMs to many users. We would ban an account as soon as we got a report, then the spammers would register again and start doing the same thing! The change means that it’s harder for spammers to do that. A lot of times, we can catch them before they’ve managed to post 15 times.</p>
<p>It’s fine to get your post count up, but try to say something substantive. “Getting my post count up!” is not a good thing to post.</p>
<p>Thanks for your understanding. It’s a constant battle to stay ahead of spammers, and sometimes members in good standing are affected negatively by our tactics.</p>