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Colleges and Universities A-Z Military Academy - West Point
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<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. Allison’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 ___ 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 westpoint? what are my chances as of now?</p>

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<p>It seems that you’re very involved - which is great!</p>

<p>I’ll touch on what you can work on for athletics: Earn varsity letters and try to obtain captaincy in at least one sport! The vast majority of accepted candidates have letters and are captain.</p>

<p>Keep up the good work, and good luck!</p>

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<p>i was capitan of jv lacrosse freshman year. how about grades? and do you know if its easier or harder to get in as a girl?</p>

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<p>JV is great but it’s better to be Varsity Captain! Varsity letters are very valuable in the admissions process.
Your grades look good - class rank is important too though. If EVERYONE in your school has super high grades, it isn’t quite the same.
I wouldn’t say it is easier, but one difference I can think of is the CFA. The standards are different for males/females.</p>

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<p>Haha I started the first lax team ever at my school and we only have jv this year! Next year hopefully we’ll have two teams including a varsity! Thank you for your insight</p>

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<p>My cousin went to Miss Porter’s school in Connecticut, and she got mostly Cs (not a great student) and was granted admission to West Point. But this was only because she was a sports star. Very athletic! Maybe if you get into West Point you’ll see her :+) she’s the captain of the lacrosse team there. That’s what got her in for sure, and the fact that she came from such a high class prep school (first student in the history of Miss Porter’s to go to a Military school!) Which I’m sure they thought was pretty awesome. But her brother (my other cousin) was the exact opposite. He went to Choate Rosemary Hall, and was a straight A+ student in all honors and AP courses, and was absolutely NOT athletic. He could barely get any shots in Basketball, and ran the wrong way during soccer games lol, and he got in. Which in this case, was the fact that he got such amazing grades and came from such a rich, prep school. So all in all, West Point will take a sports star with average grades, or a genius non athlete. In your case, you’ll get in both ways ;+) Good luck!!!</p>