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Colleges and Universities A-Z Military Academy - West Point
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Hi! I’m here to just find out if I should bother applying since the application process seems like a lot more work than normal schools. I will just list out what I have to offer as a rising senior for the class of 2016:

GPA: 4.20 weighted 3.6 unweighted
All honors every year-includes chemistry, geo-precalc, bio, physics, french, English
AP classes:
Computer Science: 5
Chemistry: 5
APUSH: 5
SAT super: 2260 800 math, 740 reading, 720 writing
ACT: first time 34 and 10 writing
SAT Math: 800
SAT Physics: 800
SAT Chemistry 790

Classes next year: AP physics (our school covers every single AP Physics exam), AP Calc AB, French 4 Honors, Orchestra, AP Computer Science (Actually, this is a class after AP so it covers advanced material past AP), English Honors

Extra Curriculars:
Section leader of Cello section + 3 years of orchestra and 1 more in my senior year
5 year consecutive honors/high honors piano award
Future Problem Solving state bowl in freshman year
3 year varsity swimming 1 more year senior year and likely candidate for team captain
Sectional/Junior Olympic swimmer
Have track under my belt: 5:00 mile (if that’s any help)
Currently writing an android app as a side project. Lots of progress with it (GUI, Internet Access with REST API, and Hardware accesses) and I learned a lot of it on my own with a couple friends it was p fun

Work experience/Volunteer
Lifeguard for 2 years
Special Olympic volunteering 50+ hours
Chinese school volunteering 50+ hours
Hospital volunteering (I play music at my local hospital for patients as well as work in acute rehab/Physical Therapy): 30 hours

i want to do industrial engineering or computer science in undergrad

just to add on, i am an asian male.

I might have missed a few details. I will be going off to dinner but I will come back with any additional information I can think of but this is mostly what I have so far. If not this school, please also let me know what other schools I should consider.

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Oh a couple more things:
Orchestra council member (Leadership?)
224 PSAT
9th year of Chinese school I took the HSK which is for proficiency and scored in the top percentile. Also got a small scholarship from the school after graduating for being top in the class

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Have you made contact with your congressional representatives to express interest in obtaining a service academy nomination? If not, then you’re already behind the power curve. Have you contacted your local West Point rep to express your interest?

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No, I’m just assuming that the timeline is at least similar to regular admissions. Is it already too late to apply for WP?

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Look on the West Point admissions website. Here is their application timeline.

http://www.usma.edu/admissions/Shared%20Documents/Admissions%20Timeline.pdf

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the only thing i think i am behind on is the initial transcript. i can get the other things done before their deadlines

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Do you really want to be a military officer? It sounds like you are just approaching this as if it’s another college. It absolutely isn’t. I think your resume looks like you could be a really solid candidate, depending on how competitive your congressional district/state is. It is not too late to get started. Before you put all the effort into the full application process, though, do some soul searching to determine if this really is the path you want to take.