Wentworth Military Academy & Junior College

Date: Oct 30 2017
Major: Engineering Department (This Major's Salary over time)
Unfortunately most of the comments concerning Wentworth Military Academy & College in these reviews are true or could very easily have actually happened. Please note that ?WeWo? is now closed. I will need to say it was a happy day when I heard the news.

My days at ?WeWo? come from the second height of its capabilities, in the 1960?s with 650 students in the Cadet Corps. Basically all the things which were expressed in my visitation of the institution and the recruitment phase were total fabrications and half-truths. The Commandant stressed ?WeWo?s? high academic scholarship and quality instructors. Actually the staff was less qualified than my old public high school, and graded easier, so GPAs came up. The enrichment programs had some good potential, but there was really little chance to take any, even if they were actually offered. Much of the spare time was spent with busy work, i.e. cleaning and polishing. Enforced study halls made the very numerous laggards come up to C / B- averages, which in turn, really made frustrated parents express great satisfaction and happiness. ?WeWo?s? main customer market seemed to be for parents at the end-of-their-rope with ash-pile bound children, and they had the extra price of a new Buick to spend on tuition each year. Addressing the needs of these parents really seemed to be the main purpose of the institution, and the number of students who were not at the academy for this remedial purpose seemed to be in the minority. There was a fairly robust military education system in place, and many students did go on to commissions in the US military, including myself. ?WeWo? also advertised that they were sending numerous graduates on to Harvard, Yale, and similar quality schools, but I never seemed to be able to find them. Most graduates who went on to a 4 year college attended second and third tier local / regional universities. Some others did go on to the University of MO, KS, OK, etc., but these were from the high end of the academic class. Note that about a half dozen students, who did need one year of remedial work before attending the US Air Force Academy were allowed to attend ?WeWo? (and about ten other preps) through an outside funded and administrated program, which to read about it, one would think it belonged solely to ?WeWo?. West Point had a similar program, but ?WeWo? was never able to tap into it, but several other military preps were. That should tell you something. The school did advertise that 94% of its graduates did go on to higher education, but this included learning how to make license plates for the state, and military boot camp. The big problem of attending ?WeWo? was the high percentage of students who really did no give a damn, and some required such things as mandatory monthly drug and pregnancy tests. It was really miserable paying to attend a school and living with ?peers? who had these kinds of needs and attitudes.

To be fair to the other writers, ?WeWo? was the state military school for the State of Missouri, with a bit of state funding assistance too, which did commissioned graduates into the state militia and National Guard, but in the late 1890?s to early 1920?s. This program fell to the wayside with the establishment of ROTC, and the state support was discontinued. In the 1910?s and 1920?s the school?s honor graduate did receive the chance for an appointment to WestPoint. The school did have some connectivity with admissions into superior up-state Illinois private universities in the 1920?s, but this lapsed, never to return in the 1930?s economic depression. Where could you leverage your degree from ?WeWo? ? Basically nowhere significant, as it did not carry a lot of water.

The big negative of Wentworth Military Academy and College was going to live and study with so many jerks and ass-holes. Many of which went on to an early fate with booze, desease, and drugs. The big positive of Wentworth was learning how, for the rest of your life, to deal with jerks and assholes.