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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy
I never applied. 
I beleive the Coast Guard Academy is the hardest school to get into. I will always remember them brushing aside the guy in front of me at the college fair back in HS because he didn't have a 4.0 GPA. You need more then that, but if you don't have a 4.0 they don't even want to know your name.  |
My uncle (mother's twin brother) attended the CGA in Groton. My father, who enlisted in the CG after getting his Masters degree (during the Vietnam era), said that it screwed my uncle all up.
He's convinced it was all the time he spent diving under the icecaps, burned out his brain cells. He's a neo-hippie living outside Seattle doing the massage/yoga thing with his wife. I would never guess that he attended the Academy if I didn't already know.
Back in the early 60's the standards were a little looser but not by much.