<p>Hi everyone. I'm a female junior this year planning to apply to USNA Class of 2018. My GPA is 3.75 unweighted and 4.5 weighted. I'm currently in the IB Diploma program (this program is higher than AP) and graduated from the MYP program last year. My SAT score is 2000 (750 math/580 reading/670 writing) and I have 5 APs total (3 in gov, 4 on US history, 3 on euro, 5 on chinese, 4 on lit). I wrestled one year on varsity as co-captain and played a year of JV field hockey. I'm a member of NHS and Chinese NHS as well as president and founder of the school's Badminton club. Outside of school, I volunteer as a summer camp counselor, an art gallery, and for a homeless shelter. Lastly, I'm a leader in the Naval Sea Cadet program. Is my resume competitive enough? Thanks</p>
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<p>Your resume is strong but as always there are no guarentees. Could depend on your cngressional distric and who you are up against, etc. You mention 1 year of 2 different sports. The athletics are pretty important. Do you have consistent involvement.
Academics you seem solid with your GPA and more importantly SAT (espeically math).
Sea Cadet leader is good leadership (though not sure what that leadership entails). Any thing else to show long term leadership?
Finally, as listed above…check the other chances threads to get a sense of things and get more direction. I am certianly no expert?
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<p>As many times as this gets asked, the real answer is no one here can tell you what your chances are. We will never meet you and can’t guess how you will do on the interviews with either your BGO or MOC, both of which are significant parts of this process. Better to check out the information on the official USNA website where they list some of the stats from the latest incoming class.</p>
<p>One specific … your CR score is far below the average score for your competitive group. The good news is that could be more critical if it was your math score. But standardized testing weighs heavily in the composition of the whole person score that encompasses many variables. It is the one great leveler … all on the same playing field. Work on that. If you’ve NOT taken the ACT, might give that a shot. It might give you a superior verbal score. btw, USNA does not look at writing or subject tests. ONLY math and CR/verbal. </p>
<p>2 other issues in YOUR control are your performance and your relationship with your junior year math and English teachers. They will be asked to submit references for you. The more thorough, specific, and timely they can be, the better your candidacy process and application will be. You should connect and brief both BEFORE the school year ends, alerting them to the disproportionate importance of THEIR part in this process. It is NOT like those recs they may be asked to write to 95% of other institutions. You might want to arrange a specific time to meet with them BEFORE the school year ends and alerting them to watch their e-mail (and their spam) . Give them a resume, and do NOT assume they will know what you’ve done, been involved in. Get the email where they’d like the request sent to, most likely over the summer. Ask if you can contact them over that time. This can be a real deal maker or breaker for the “average” great white kid in the same pool initially with 20,000 other mostly similarly strong candidates. </p>
<p>Be working daily on your PT. </p>
<p>Can you swim? How well? Do you swim?</p>
<p>Lastly, your athletic stuff is interesting. What are you doing this year?</p>
<p>Did you apply to NASS? Outcome? </p>
<p>What state are you from? Rank and number in your HS class?</p>
<p>I’m from Maryland so the chances might be lower because I got rejected from NASS because of that. I can swim but not competitively (2nd class swimmer). My school doesn’t use class rank but GPA wise, I fall into the top 10% of my class. To clarify, I played one year of field hockey on JV but will be varsity senior year. I wrestled one year varsity as co-captain, one year as captain (one more for upcoming senior year). I do a lot of powerlifting too, which makes me a bit stocky and big. I’m involved in SGA, both class and schoolwide, for 2 years already.</p>