<p>Greetings. This is another "advice and odds" thread.</p>
<p>I am currently 21 years old, making a fourth application for the class entering in 2008. I am currently a national Guardsman( soon to be contracted as an SMP cadet), enrolled in the Corps of Cadets at North Georgia College and State University. Before that, I graduated from a local public High School, and attended Georgia Institute of Technology for a year before transferring to North Georgia to participate in the military program. My statistics are as follows:</p>
<p>High School GPA: 3.5
Class Rank: about 30/290ish
College GPA: 2.9 , Computer Science major(most of my hours are from Georgia Tech)
SAT Score: Math:800, Verbal 750. No writing score, I took it in 2004.</p>
<p>Leadership Positions: High School Class President, JROTC platoon sergeant, Squad Leader in North Georgia's Corps. Hall representative with Georgia Tech's housing council. </p>
<p>Athletics: Only Martial arts during High school. During my first two years of high school, I attended a private school that was over an hour away from my home, and the only person who could drive me had to leave immediately after school. As a result, I was unable to participate in athletics the first two years of school. When I was able to try out my Junior year, I found that my skill level was no longer competitive and I did not make the team. </p>
<p>However, I am currently on both of my company's competitive intramural teams at North Georgia(the current sports are baseball and water polo), and will most likely be helping to run them, and possibly running them myself.</p>
<p>Have you contacted admissions and asked them what your chances are? They really are the ones who can best advise you. I believe that once you are in college your college record is of more importance than your high school record.
Good luck!</p>
<p>All I gotta say- your high school grades were a lot better than mine. How are you doing in your military classes and on the APFT? If your superiors at the military program like you- ask them to do recommendations. It couldn't hurt.</p>
<p>Ann is right though, your college grades matter more because they're a lot more relevant. Things don't look too bad at all. I'll be applying for the third time- had conditional for 10(medical), rejected for 11 (academics).</p>
<p>This is a good place to discuss the impact of recommendation letters. I believe, Arinthel posted previously that he/she received an LOA and a nomination, but had the LOA revoked and did not receive an appointment because of recommendation letter comments. Candidates should be aware that recommendation letters are important and can work for or against you.<br>
Arinthel: I know you characterised the comments as "slander" - was that issue ever resolved?</p>
<p>I should know, I had one REALLY bad rec letter that the academy wanted from a certain teacher...haha. Yea, I should have showed up 10min late to my final exam rather than run out of my building screaming while in a bath robe.
(Late night studying + shower + normal clock not working = really bad, don't let it happen to you!)</p>
<p>Lesson: Dress for success- I'd never show up for like Color Guard in BDUs...hmmm...</p>
<p>The issue of the recommendations hasn't been directly resolved, but to the best of my knowledge, the comments were such as to imply that I would not be able to survive, let alone succeed, in a military environment. In addition, the recommendation was from a Physics teacher, who gave me the only C I got in high school. I since gotten A grades in both college level courses I have taken, both the algebra and calculuas based courses(from two different eachers at two different schools). That plus my successful completion of basic, as well as my NCO rank at North Georgia, should be more than enough to demonstrate that the assesment given to me was at best erroneous, if not outright malicious.</p>
<p>Arinthel: If you have been turned down three years in a row, you may want to consider trying to resolve the issue directly with admissions. They are usually quite forthcoming when a candidate asks what their chances of acceptance are. MAJ Romans has moved on; your contact would be MAJ McBride (if you are still in the same region).</p>