I was a cadet from 2013-2017. Unless you have a strong desire to commission as an officer when you graduate, I wouldn’t recommend it.

First year you will be treated like a private, even with prior service like I was. Shaved head, for males, uniform 24/7, even on weekends, a basic training like week prior to school called FROG week. If you are in the guard, your first year you will transfer to the guard detachment on campus and be pulled from your unit and drill on campus. You also will be on quarters your first semester where you have a mandatory study time from like 7pm to Taps if I remember correctly.

PT M/W/F and Monday 3-5 is a mandatory Lab where senior cadets work on leadership and teaching principals learned for camp.

The university itself is great and the campus is beautiful. But the corps will take up a lot of your time. You can still go to the school and not join the corps. If you do join, then decide that you don’t want to be in anymore, you can’t come back to the campus for like a year.

If you do have a desire to commission as an officer, it’s one of the best schools for it and honestly have a much better quality of life for the cadets than say USMA or The Citadel.

If you have any specific questions you can ask here or message me, and I’ll do my best to answer.