<p>Our son's high school is requesting that he submit a dollar amount of the value of his appoiontment to USMMA. They are listing the scholarships earned in the high school graduation program. With some of the other academies, I have seen approximate dollar values placed on an appointment, but I have not seen that with Kings Point. Does anyone have any suggestion what figure we should submit?</p>
<p>I know there is a value floating around out there somewhere, I think around 280,000, but what I think you should do is submit some exorbitant value and see if they go with it 
Maybe send in a value of something like 2 million, ha. </p>
<p>Hopefully someone with recent experience will give you the most recent value.</p>
<p>I think the value is the same as the other Service Academies I have heard anywhere from 200,000 - 400,000. However can anyone put a value of the service to our country and the possible ultimate price these men and women may have to pay?</p>
<p>It’s been really hard to nail this number down. Our Senator said $300,000 and the Academy said $180,000. I took the Academy’s budget of $60 million and divided it by approximately 1000 students and arrived at $240,000 over 4 years which, conveniently, was half way between $180,000 and $300,000</p>
<p>According to the script we will use for our DS senior award ceremony, sent by the USMMA admissions office, “An appointment to the Academy is the equivalent of a scholarship worth approxiamately $205,000 over the 4-year period”.</p>
<p>The current estimate given to the the seniors about how much they will owe if they do not complete their service obligation is: $213,498.</p>
<p>Remember, this goes up every year due to various reasons, but when I was a plebe, I remember it being around $180,000.</p>
<p>In any case, be prepared for an audible gasp from the audience when the number is announced.</p>
<p>When our Congressman present my son and his classmate their appointments he said they were each valued at $250,000. There was an audible gasp from the audience and when the principal announce that was a total of $500,000 in scholarship value for these two alone and the school as a whole got $2.1 million there was a standing ovation.</p>