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My competitiveness for USMA (West Point)?
I’m applying under a service connected nomination to West Point. I applied last year and was offered USMAPS, but enlisted instead. I haven’t started college yet, but will in January. I recieved two nominations last year. I’m a bit anxious about the whole process, and would like to get some feedback on my competitiveness…
My High School GPA: 3.44 (all AP/Honors classes. Dual seal, college and tech prep)
SAT: 1740 SAT (with writing)
JROTC: Battalion Commander, Raiders (Commander), Color Guard (Commander), Honor Guard (Commander), Drill Team (Commander), Exhibition, Staff (XO for a short time, BC for remaining).
Extra curriculars: Football, Varsity letter, Boys State Attendant/Govener, Civil Air Patrol, Boy Scouts, Class President, Student Body Officer, Beta Club, Key Club, Newspaper Staff, Out of School Baseball League, Orienteering team, scholastic awards, student club officer, School club representitive, part time job.
CFA: Basketball throw: 78′
Pull-ups: 18
Shuttle run: 8.3
Pushups: 75
Sit-ups: 88
Mile: 6:30
Father was an E-9 in the AF, mother is a bank teller manager. I’m Asian. Recieved a service connected nomination from my CO. High Ratings. Same with my teacher evaluations. The Candidate statements…well. I’m an English major at the college I’ll be attending in Jan. You’ll jut have to take my word they’re pretty strong essays.
Your problem is that your SAT scores and GPA are way low, that’ll probably be a huge problem for you. At best, you’d be a slightly above average candidate, and slightly above average doesn’t cut it when 35,000 people apply for 1,000 slots.
| Dec 16, 2009
I applaud your extremely good scores and dedication. I can’t say you are a definite for entry, but I’d bet you would be high on the list of applicants. Something you’ve got to realize is, there are about 10,000 to 12,000 candidates with the same academic background and roughly 3000 candidates with the same JROTC background ( I guessed on that number honestly, but you’ve got to figure that I’m close).
You said you’re enlisted now? That will increase your chances, as will your increased age and coming college attendance. You could make it easily in my opinion, but you should talk to a West Point recruiting officer for more details.
epicninja_codester | Dec 15, 2009
Your competitiveness is probably not a lot different than last year. The issue is scholastic qualification with a 1740 SAT score and a 3.44 GPA, though the academies consider class rank based on weighted GPA rather than raw GPA. They also factor in the competitive level of the school based on the percentage of students going on to 4 year universities. A 1740 SAT is below the lower end of the Middle 50% range of candidates appointed directly to the academy. And unless your class rank is significantly higher than GPA indicates, it is also going to fall in that range. I’d assume that most candidates who had standardized test scores in the lower 25% had high class rank to compensate.
The whole candidate score assigned by the service academies basically breaks down as indicated by the pie chart at the top of page 7 of the USAFA catalog:
http://www.academyadmissions.com/?m=AFA; pl=Google#Page/Online_Catalog
West Point offers the Prep School to candidates who are not quite scholastically qualified. Unless your current SAT scores or GPA are significantly higher than when you applied last year, nothing has changed in terms of scholastic qualification. Very few appointments come directly out of the enlisted ranks, and I read that the Navy now requires enlisted to have served two years active duty to be offered the Naval Academy Prep School. I don’t know if this change has also taken place for USMAPS. The Prep school is about 90% recruited athletes and candidates recruited for other purposes of the academy and 10% candidates who actually have served on active duty. A high school candidate offered the Prep School is enlisted in the Army Reserves and placed on active duty on entering the Prep School, which allows him to attend. Then if he completes the Prep School year he is given an appointment to West Point based on a Secretary of the Army(military) nomination if he has not received a nomination from any other source. You have an automatic Presidential nomination since your Dad is retired military, so that might be the nomination you would be appointed on to preserve Secretary of the Army nominations. If a prior civilian Prep school candidate does not complete the Prep School year his reserve contract is voided. West Point does not indicate how many Cadets were prior enlisted other than to say 25 were combat veterans, which I can take to mean 25 had prior enlisted service.
http://admissions.usma.edu/moreInfo/Prof ile2013.pdf
USNA clearly indicates that 15 Sailors and 4 Marines entered directly from the enlisted ranks, and 17 Sailors and 7 Marines from the Prep School. That is almost exactly 10% of the 242 appointments from the Prep School.
http://www.usna.edu/Admissions/documents /Class%20Portrait%202013.pdf
Good Luck!
Tom | Dec 18, 2009
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