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The large honour presented the Naval Academy was by the North Vietnamese man Major Bui to captured John Sidney McCain III, USNA collection of ’58 when he said, “They hit taught you likewise well, McCain! They hit taught you likewise well.”

You don’t hit to be a ordinal generation applicant, son and grandson of a four-star Admiral and forthcoming presidential nominee to be digit of the 10% of applicants who lands a coveted blot in the Naval Academy, but you do requirement a plan. That’s the prototypal secret. Plan. Here are octad more:

• Compare yourself against the bleak clappers requirements here. Is that you? Now analyse the ‘average student’  here. Still in the running? Even if it’s not you correct now, could it be in quaternary years? If so, you’re half artefact there.
• Know this is where you poverty to go. Research your options. Do it so when you’ve prefabricated a decision, you know it’s right.
• Look at the daylong To Do list and wager they must be done. It includes not meet becoming physically/mentally fit, but getting a Congressional nomination, expiration a fleshly examination, employed with the Blue and Gold officer, stuff discover piles of forms, mayhap present several sessions at the Academy to be trusty you’re right. Accept that. It may interfere with other High School duties, but that’s the Academy way. They poverty to wager how many balls you crapper chisel at once and ease come discover with applause. It’s doable and you crapper be that person. There’s a checklist in the workbook I utilised (Building a Midshipman) that makes it cushy to complete everything, but be ready: It’s quite long.
• Make a resume. Yes, you’re young, but if you don’t start it now, you’ll forget that when you were in eighth grade, you won the Science Fair, and when you were a freshman, you were the #1 violinist at the area orchestra competition. There’s a sample in the book that crapper help you.
• Are you a mix of physical/mental/verbal? You don’t hit to be the best in some digit category, but a Navy Officer requires every three. You hit to be physically fit, mentally intense and healthy to communicate your thoughts and ideas. Some schools meet poverty digit or two. The Navy challenge: You must hit every three.
• Keep trying. The Naval Academy values people who study finished modify when they’re failing, modify when there isn’t sufficiency instance (think about preparing for Pearl Harborâ€"did they hit as such instance as they needed), especially if it effectuation employed low push (like every battle USA has ever been in). That knowledge to impact finished problems and stress is as essential as the 4.0 and ASB President that Ivy Leagues want.
• Follow through. Once you’re in the covering stage, send the information the Admissions Office requests, then study finished to be trusty it got there. They hit a accessible update feature you crapper analyse or use the digit in the workbook. Your goal is to be trusty they conceive you’re in the same blot you conceive you are.
• Start now.

The large secret: Believe you crapper do it. Anything you crapper believe and conceive, you crapper achieve. Set your GPS to ‘USNA’ and get going.

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