<p>I’m all over the boards…
but I wanna know my chances for USAFA? </p>
<p>Junior
Hispanic Male
San Antonio, Texas</p>
<p>Medical Magnet School
GPA Weighted 95.4501
GPA Weighted 4.01/4.33
GPA Unweighted 3.77/4.00</p>
<p>ACT - 30
SAT II Bio 760
SAT II Math II C 800
SAT II World History 760</p>
<p>Top 15%
35/200</p>
<p>HOSA President
Red Cross Club
Mu Alpha Theta
NHS
SHS (Spanish)
Multicultural Club
Japanese Culture Club</p>
<p>2nd UIL Spelling Districts
1st UIL Spelling Districts
13th Regional Spelling 5A
9th Regional Spelling 5A</p>
<p>1st Medical Spelling Regional HOSA
2nd Medical Spelling State HOSA</p>
<p>3rd Spanish Spelling Regionals</p>
<p>Does USAFA have ED? I can run the mile in like 7:30.</p>
<p>Chances?! :-)</p>
<p>Go for it, but deadlines are now..... My mile was slower than that and I'm fine, don't worry about it.</p>
<p>You have a nice selection of clubs and decent grades. No sports. I don't have sports either (tennis for 2 years in HS) and i didnt get in last year. Does that mean you wont? Not by a long shot.</p>
<p>Ive seen the most competitive people not get in, and people with a very weak application get in. So its really up to the academy.</p>
<p>Best of luck. Are you interested in AFA or just going to all the boards?</p>
<p>No sports-that's a big thing.</p>
<p>You might be too late depending on your area. The academy is already in full swing with applications, and in many places all nomination files have to already be finished.</p>
<p>Texas is also very competative.</p>
<p>You may want to wait until next year to apply, unless you can get your nomination stuff in on time. If you can do that, go for it. It doesn't hurt to try.</p>
<p>Falcon Hopeful06</p>
<p>I wouldnt say the academy is in "full swing" They selection boards have not even started meeting yet (next week though according to counselor). They will still accept prospect applications till the 31st of january.</p>
<p>The problem actually would be nominations. Most sources of nomination are starting to close (if not already closed). </p>
<p>Try doing as much as you can this year. If you atleast become a Candidate this year, you can still apply next year and fill in the special "i was a candidate last year" bubble. This shows that you at least tried a second time around.</p>
<p>I don't think Texas is nessessarily more competative, we just have a lot of people, and alot of people applying.</p>
<p>I'd have to do double-check how your SAT scores compare to the entering class, which can be found on the Academy's website, as well as the Physical Education test requirements, but from my perspective, I think that you are in a strong position. </p>
<p>You're only a Junior, so the time to prepare is right now. But the fact that you don't have athletics is well made. Have you thought about participating in sports at all? Or how about Civil Air Patrol, which administers physical fitness tests as part of Cadet programs in order to show the Academy that you are willing to do the work in terms of developing yourself in terms of physical fitness?</p>
<p>By the way, my qualifications for commenting on this at all are that I received 5 nominations to the service academies (2 Air Force, 1 Naval Academy, 2 West Point). I received my Appointment to the Air Force Academy in January of my Senior Year of High School. And I'm currently writing a book that walks through the process.</p>
<p>What is the mile time? The admission officer at our college night said it was more like 6 minutes to be considered. YIKES! :-</p>
<p>Nah it's not 6, I believe that the AVERAGE mile time for the PAE (or CFA) is 7:00. You could score below this, but not much. The Max is 5:20, and the min is probably somewhere near 7:30-8:00 (just a complete guess).</p>
<p>I hope its closer to 8! My time was 7:47 :(</p>
<p>He made it seem like it was like really close to like 6. :-(, he really made it sound like I had no chance, with the PAE apart of it.</p>
<p>You said your a junior?</p>
<p>Pleanty of time to work on that. In a couple months on a good running routine, I'd bet that you can get under 6.</p>
<p>wow....my mile time was around 8:10 when I was in 8th grade, and haven't run since (we were required to run a certain time to get a certain grade ;-) ).</p>
<p>Straight out of the PCQ packet: Average Mile time for incoming Males is 7:00 minutes. 6:00 is well above average, so I don't really know what he was getting at, because it is entirely possible to score an even above average score even when scoring well below 7:00 in the mile run. </p>
<p>Anyways, I'm a pretty good runner, so I know lots about running. And one things for sure: pretty much anyone can under 7:00 in the mile, it's just a question of when you start training and how hard you train. I know when I first started running, I was so proud of myself for completing a 4 mile run, and breaking 6:00 in the mile. Now, I don't even flinch after finishing a 17 miler, and my best time is 4:20. The thing is, it took me 3 years to build up my fitness to that level. All you have to do to get better is run, and gradually run more and more until a fast mile is a breeze. I had the same problem a lot of people have with running with the pullups.</p>
<p>Interestingly, I find that pull-ups are by far the easiest to increase within a short span of time. The most important thing is to get a bar and get in your head to try as many pull-ups as you can and if you cant do a pull up, do negative pull-ups which work the same muscles but are 100 times easier. I found an increase from 3-8 in two weeks and now, after 4 weeks, im doing regular sets of 5-8. For me, running was the tougher part because Im not a runner so it required a lot of patience to run. Ive still gotta cut down my mile time by a lot. :-(</p>
<p>I'm sure everyone has their own weak area. Yeah, at first, I could only do like 2 or 3 pull ups, and I gradually worked up to 11 over a month and a half.</p>
<p>Hugh, I had the same thing happen to me. My pull-ups went up in no time, but like you, I am not a runner. But I improved that quickly too!</p>