<p>There is a one-year academy prep program in Kerrville, TX where you earn college credit and prepare yourself in other ways to not only gain acceptance to an academy, but excel once you get there. Program takes both academy sponsored students and non-sponsored students. </p>
<p>Great alternative to going to your second choice college and trying again. Here you are under the leadership of a former USNA grad and professor. ALL students in the program are trying again and that's the focus here.</p>
<p>AOG scholarships will only apply to Marion Military Institute, Georgia Military College, and New Mexico Military Institute. That was my understanding regarding sponsored students.</p>
<p>As I understand it, you would not be sponsored by a scholarship during your stay at this prep school. I don't think that any of the academies' scholarship programs are applicable to this program. It would be like going to a regular college where you have to pay for it all yourself.</p>
<p>The USNA Foundation sponsors some of the students...but true, that doesn't help West Point hopefuls. However, students can apply for regular college scholarships and financial aid because they are college students at Schreiner University. They prepare for the academies as a Greystone at Schreiner student. </p>
<p>If a student does not get an academy appointment to the Class of 2011, Greystone had a great success rate with the students this year getting into the academy of their choice.</p>
<p>The Association of Graduates (AOG) at West Point is similar to the USNA Foundation referred to above in that it provides some type of scholarship for individuals it has identified, usually with the assistance and at the request of the Admissions' Office, to attend a one year preparatory program at certain designated military colleges. The upside of such a scholarship is not so much the financial contribution the scholarship brings, but the fact that an AOG sponsored individual does not compete with the regular applicant pool for admission to West Point. It is my understanding that the acceptance rate for those individuals in the AOG program is above ninety percent, significantly above the regular applcant pool acceptance rate. </p>
<p>Kerrville is a wonderful town in the beautiful Texas hill country. Schreiner is a fine school. However, I don't think it is appropriate to equate Greystone with an approved AOG military college. I also think Greystone at Schreiner is considerably more expensive that Marion or NMMI. I would be curious to know exactly how many current West Point cadets, or individuals with an appointment for the Class of 2011 at West Point attended the Greystone at Schreiner program...</p>