Writing a college essay can be one of the hardest parts of the college application for veterans, who have been trained to stay quiet about aspects of their military service, said Andrea Goldstein, CEO of Service to School.
The visit will make Trump the 10th sitting president to attend the historic rivalry between the two service academies, a tradition started by Theodore Roosevelt in 1901.
“Imagine the impact if the highest performing colleges and universities more actively recruited [troops], enrolled them and included them when building inclusive classes,” the president of Student Veterans of America said.
"In the past, the College Scorecard has relied too much on national averages that are often misleading," writes Diane Auer Jones of the Department of Education.