Maura Murray's Missing Semester(s)

Maura Murray, according to many reports, graduated from high school in 2000, after which she entered the United States Military Academy - West Point - as a first-year student.

Which would have put her on track to graduate from USMA in the spring of 2004.

But at some point she apparently transferred from USMA to the University of Massachusetts.

However, she is consistently reported as having been a junior at the time of her disappearance in February 2004.

FROM UMASS DAILY COLLEGIAN 17 FEBRUARY 2004

Had she remained on track at West Point, February 2004 would have been her last semester there. Was she, when she vanished, a first-semester junior or a second-semester junior at UMass?

Did she take a year off? A semester off? Or did she have to repeat some time at UMass following her transfer? One semester or two? At UMass or another school? Was she ever a part-time, "night school" student somewhere?

Or did she take time off for some reason unrelated to her education?

Or was she in her final semester, soon to graduate, and various news reports kept getting it wrong?

Possibly related to this time-gap question is the You Tube video in which her father appears.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM43tpDMrCg

At about the 00:50 mark, Maura's father says, "Things were... were really looking up for her."

I wonder what he meant. Was there a time when things were looking bleak? If so, is this related to the rarely or never-discussed missing semester(s)? And/or her ultimate fate?

This missing/repeated time during her years of higher education may not be a hugely important issue, but it seems to be one of several events oddly missing from the discussion of her disappearance. (Ditto the 12:07 to 12:14 phone call on Thursday night, for example; as mentioned here:

http://crypticcop.blogspot.com/2016/05/800-pm-to-1200-am-on-weekdays.html)


It might be helpful to know whether Maura's transfer from USMA was seamless or whether there was a break in time during which she was not a student at either USMA or UMass.

Or it might be totally irrelevant.

This omission is hard to understand. After all, it's a pretty simple, straightforward question. 

Why have no "citizen detectives" asked about this?