Integer1
Banned
About 20% of each academy's students do not graduate. Why? Do those numbers include plebe summer dropouts, or not (since they didn't actually start USNA in September.) I would think that if the 20% are students who actually PASSED Plebe Summer but then quit, then they did so because they were not academically tough enough or because had no business being in the military in the first place.
20% is a BIG NUMBER, and you would think that since there are 1200 entrants, and the Academy had 4,000 extra people to choose from in recent years (14,000 instead of 10,000), that they'd be able to find students who could handle the academics! Does anybody know if the 20% has come down in recent years? If so, it means the academic load was the problem for many of those students.
Yet, I would guess that the reason responsible for dropouts could be people who decide they don't want a military life. What do you guys think about that?
20% is a BIG NUMBER, and you would think that since there are 1200 entrants, and the Academy had 4,000 extra people to choose from in recent years (14,000 instead of 10,000), that they'd be able to find students who could handle the academics! Does anybody know if the 20% has come down in recent years? If so, it means the academic load was the problem for many of those students.
Yet, I would guess that the reason responsible for dropouts could be people who decide they don't want a military life. What do you guys think about that?