[Jacquerie]

"Minority applicants with scores and grades down to the 300s and Cs and Ds also come, though after a year at our taxpayer-supported remedial school, the Naval Academy Preparatory School."

If true, it means that minority admission to NAPS is also dumbed down. 300 scores? That shouldn't be enough to get into Journalism or Education schools.

[Thrownatbirth]

I went to NAPS in the early 70’s with a lot of sailors and Marines who only had GEDs, but a lot of combat experience. They certainly deserved a shot at a commission. Regardless of your prior education, you still had to compete academically with everyone one else for those 100 appointments. If you didn’t get an appointment, you went back and served the rest of your enlistment (usually WESPAC).