Chances? this is my dream

Colleges and Universities A-Z Air Force Academy - Colorado Springs
1

<p>Leadership Accomplishments
• As an 8th Grader, cofounded a youth volunteer organization _____<strong><em>, whose mission is to raise awareness of issues of those less fortunate, both in the United States and around the world.
o The signature project of the group’s initial year was a trip to New Orleans to build 2 playgrounds for schools that were destroyed during Hurricane Katrina. _</em></strong> and a friend organized a group of 10 students, won support of parents and conducted fundraising to finance the trip through the orgainzation ___<strong><em>.
• As an 8th grader, won the American Legion Service Award (2 award given to a class of 450 + students) in recognition of her outstanding service both inside her middle school and in the larger community.
• As a Freshman at _</em></strong>, is a co-founding student of the Girls Lacrosse Program. _<strong><em>'s passion for the sport inspired a parent on the sports board to get involved in driving support within the school to start the program and together with a friend, they generated the interest of over 30 girls to join in the inaugural season.
• Nominated by a teacher to participate in the National Congressional Youth Leadership Conference and attended the conference in _</em></strong> in March ’11.
• Captain of JV Women’s Lacrosse at _____freshman year</p>

<p>Student Government
• President of Student Council, 8th Grade
• Secretary of Student Congress, 9th Grade
• Awarded Student Council Leadership Award 2011</p>

<p>Service Highlights (in addition to accomplishments listed above)
• Friends and Company, a student run organization that works with Special Needs Students (7th and 8th Grade)
• Worked at a local Food Pantry in <em>, multiple years
• Cleaned inner city </em> School with the __<strong><em>Organization
• Worked at a local junior lacrosse tournament to benefit Cancer Foundation
• Part of a student team that aids in the recruitment of middle school kids to _</em></strong>
• 50+ hours of service freshman year</p>

<p>Academics
• 90 average (97 weighted) in 1st Semester in High School, including five honors classes
• Achieved High Honors for 1st Semester
Ive gotten all A’s and high B’s in honors classes so far.</p>

<p>Athletics
• Co-founding member of __<em>__Girls Lacrosse Club
• JV Tennis, Fall 2010
• Indoor Track, Winter ‘11
• Earned a spot on the Elite lacrosse Travel Team, _</em>_for Summer/Fall ’11. Captain JV Lacrosse freshman year
• Leading JV Lacrosse goal scorer freshman year </p>

<p>Other Activities
• Debate Club
• Spanish Club
• Babysitting for multiple families that put their trust in her
• Contributing member of Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD)
Coaches Lacrosse to elementary school chiclden.</p>

<p>Hi, im a female freshman in the US.
with this resume, what do I need to improve to get into usafa? what are my chances as of now?</p>

2

<p>Keep up the great work, the Academy admissions uses the extracurriculars, sports, etc. following your freshman year, so 10th and on is what matters most from what I can tell, a 90 unweighted is good, but if you work on that, get a high ACT you should be fine, no guarantees, good luck! :)</p>

3

<p>yeah i need to get the 90 up a little. do you know if they look more at weighted or unweighted grades? or how much they look into freshman year? i kinda had a rough start to hs</p>

4

<p>Unweighted, because many schools weight PE and Art classes, not certain on their method of how they register it, such as I have a 94.5 overall which could translate to 4.0 or each individual grade is a 4.0, 3.7 etc… They will take your gpa and such in account, but not EC’s I’m pretty sure the thing I read said, kinda levels the playing field a lil I suppose…keep up great work!</p>

5

<p>thank you. are you applying, or already there?</p>

6

<p>Applying, attending the summer seminar thus summer, nomination is necessarily already obtained :slight_smile: so going into Junior year!</p>

7

<p>Applying, attending the summer seminar thus summer, nomination is necessarily already obtained :slight_smile: so going into Senior year!</p>

8

<p>good luck! youll have to tell me how it is!</p>

9

<p>FWIW,</p>

<p>They have their own weight scoring system, and will re-weight you to their system. It is not just about the gpa. It is about the rigor or the course load, the school profile, plus the SAT/ACT, rank and the gpa to give you a PAR score. PAR = Prior Academic Record. It accounts for 60% of the WCS. WCS = Whole Candidate Score.</p>

<p>You can have a 4.0 uwgpa, but since you did not take 1 weighted class, your gpa could slide down according to the AFA. You could have a 3.6 uwgpa, but take 9 AP’s and all honors and it could slide up. </p>

<p>The profile of the school also matters. It is submitted by the GC. In it they inform the AFA of % from your school that go Ivy, Private, Public 4 yr, Community, Tech and nothing. If you rank top 20% in the class, yet 50% go Ivy, it looks good. If you rank top 20% an 0 go Ivy, 10% go 4 yr, it isn’t going to look good.</p>

<p>That profile also includes; Amount of AP/IB courses offered, compared to the amount you toolk (see rigor)</p>

<p>As far as noms, unless you have a true “IN” with an MOC or are a child eligible for Presidential, don’t bank on the nom until their board meets, which is usually in October.</p>

<p>Attending SLS helps alot. So you should def. go if you can.</p>

<p>To get an appointment, the key is to understand highest WCS wins the nom. </p>

<p>Presidential noms are unlimited, they could give 500, but only 100 can be charged. MOCs can have up to 10 on any given slate, but only 1 on that slate can be charged to the MOC.</p>

<p>How do you get it? Highest WCS.</p>

<p>WCS includes:
PAR (60%)
ECS/CFA (20%)
RECS (20%)</p>

<p>Take the PSAT as a sophomore, do it again as a jr. They offer it in the fall (Oct). Than take the SAT AND ACT over and over again. </p>

<p>The AFA will superscore.</p>

<p>You take the PSAT because if you score high enough you get to compete for the NMF. That will count for nationally recognized awards. </p>

<p>The goal should be to hit as close to 1400 out of 1600 to feel confident, not safe, confident. I say that because some states are incredibly competitive and their scores will be much higher…see PAR and WCS!</p>

<p>aviation is correct, they want to see improvement, and honestly a 90 is good for a freshman when you are taking honors.</p>

<p>Aviation, I don’t know where you attend school, but I have never heard of PE being weighted, and my kids were AFAD children, who attended a total of 12 different school districts between the 3 of them. The only art class that was weighted in the 4 different hs’s was AP Art.</p>

<p>If you truly want to get more details on the AFA from one on one experience and how the system works go to [United</a> States of America Service Academy Forums - Powered by vBulletin](<a href=“http://www.serviceacademyforums.com%5DUnited”>http://www.serviceacademyforums.com)</p>

<p>Good luck</p>