As I always post, due to the intricacies of the nomination process and the rubric the service academies use to determine appointments, it is impossible to chance anyone. No one knows what the competition in the OP’s district will look like in the year they apply, and they are only competing against those in their own district for a nomination. Without one, USMA cannot offer an appointment.
I see two red flags in the OP’s resume. First, the desire to serve. Second, the lack of a team sport.
The service academies are looking to produce capable officers for each branch of our armed services. It takes a certain kind of kid to go this route, and those kids don’t always look like the applicants to the usual civilian suspects. The OP will need to dig deep to be able to explain clearly and genuinely to the nomination panels why they want to serve as an officer in our armed forces and also be prepared to answer their understanding of the consequences of that decision. Candidates for service academies have a specific drive and goals that differ from typical civilian college applicants. The OP’s application and interviews will need to demonstrate that difference. The OP may have a burning desire to become an Army officer that isn’t captured by the list provided, but be aware, the nomination panels are expert at ferreting out motives and goals because they know that getting through a service academy and the years of service that follow take a gut commitment to something other than academics. Though the OP certainly can major in physics at USMA, they need to understand that, with the exceptions of medicine and cyber, major is unrelated to where that officer will branch for their service. The academies are federally mandated to branch at least 69% of each class into combat arms. USMA branched 81% of our son’s class of 2019 into combat arms. If the OP’s primary goal isn’t military service, USMA is not a good fit and not going to happen.
The second red flag is the absence of team sports. Though the OP is mostly concerned about GPA, USMA selects only about 1/3rd of any incoming class for academic chops; the other 2/3rds are chosen for other equally shiny traits. The service academies value a combination of brains, brawn, and leadership somewhat equally–as they must. But even candidates selected as scholars are also athletes. Of a recent class of 1302 appointees, for instance, 99% were varsity athletes:
This emphasis holds in these percentages across academies year after year. Taekwondo will help the OP pass the fitness test, but it does not check the heavily-weighted team participation and team leadership boxes.
This may be too much detail for this thread, but I include it for all the applicants who toss a service academy into their college lists without also adding the reason why it is there because one of these definitely is not like the others. Though each service academy is a degree-conferring institution, none is a college in the traditional sense. If the applicant is not also considering ROTC in their civilian options, this disconnect is obvious.
Oh, and about this:
Tell that to our son who is serving out his nine-year committment with two deployments so far. 