Could someone please evaluate my chances?

Colleges & Universities A-Z Military Academy - West Point
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<p>If someone could please tell me how my chances are looking for the class of 2011, I would most appreciate it.</p>

<p>Right now, I am going to be a senior in HS in Wisconsin.</p>

<p>GPA - 4.0
Class Rank - 18/209
4 APs, 3 honors, more in senior year
Invited into National Society of HS Scholars
Wisconsin Student Achievers
Who's Who Among HS Students
28 ACT
-30, 30 Eng
-29, 32 Mat
-29, 28 Read
-24, 23 Sci (Ugh.)
Won multiple local German competitions.</p>

<p>Varsity Soccer, Captain 9th Grade FreshmenTeam
Lettered 11th grade, Captain Candidate 12th, Won Teams Attitude Award</p>

<p>JV Tennis 3 years, 4th this year</p>

<p>DECA President 11th and 12th
-Organized Ticket Sales for school dance
-Organized multiple fund raisers for charities
-Competed in State Competition, Qualified for Nationals
-Attended other Leadership Labs
-Other Community Service</p>

<p>NHS Member, Tutor Special Ed kids at school
FBLA Member 9th Grade</p>

<p>Church Group
- 6 years acolyting at church
- 3 work camp trips, repairing needy houses, 105 service hours
-Soup Kitchen help, Special Olympics Tournament, Volunteering at Church Festival
-Won Distiguished Service Award for Church</p>

<p>Refereed Soccer for 3 years
-Play 1st division / Premier Soccer on Local A Team
Work as a Computer Cleaner 20 hours/month at local office
SLS Participant, Mathmatics Award
Passed CFA No Risk</p>

<p>Few others, but thats all I can think of at the moment.</p>

<p>Thank you in advance for evaluating my position, if you would like me to look at yours, let me know.</p>

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<p>Great background. My only suggestion is to take the ACT again, and prep for it. Also, you may want to consider taking the SAT also.</p>

<p>Good luck!!! Keep us posted.</p>

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<p>Thanks, momoftwins, for the quick response.</p>

<p>Yes, taking the ACT would be the best course of action. Thanks for the help.</p>

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<p>Your profile looks strong. </p>

<p>Since you are entering your senior year, you have about 3 months to make any improvements to your profile.</p>

<p>West Point applications should become available in August. Make sure you have set up a candidate file on the USMA website if you haven't already done so. That way you will receive an application package automatically. </p>

<p>Get your paperwork in early. USMA begins to send out regular offers (in contrast to Letters of Assurance) in October so your chances are optimized if you have your complete application package into USMA before then.</p>

<p>Candidates are ranked based on academics (60%), leadership (30) and Fitness(10). Keys elements of the ranking are:</p>

<p>Academics( class rank, SAT/ACT score, grades)
Leadership ( extra curicullars, athletic participation, teacher evaluations)
Fitness ( candidate fitness analysis ).</p>

<p>Specific recommendations:
Retake the ACT and focus on the science component. USMA will take the top score in each section so don't worry about the other sections. Take practice ACT exams in the science section with the goal getting a 27 or higher which will put you over the 90th percentile for that section. </p>

<p>Practice the CFA events and make sure you can meet the average scores for each event. Especially make sure you can do the pullups and pushups.</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>

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<p>Thanks aspen, hoping to do better in science on ACT.
The thing that sucks is thats why I retook it in the first place, only to find i did worse the second time! Haha.</p>

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<p>why do people do this?</p>

<p>if you have a glowing resume, and you know it, please dont feel the need to post it on here simply for the validation of people telling you what you already know.</p>

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<p>cadet for 7,</p>

<p>This is exactly the place for people to come for information on college admissions - especially when the question is asked in a polite way. As a matter of fact, most here will readily acknowledge that there is no validity to their answers to these kinds of questions. If a prospective cadet/mid merely reads the literature on SA's, a highly qualified candidate could be scared away. Also, we have seen many very strong candidates who have not received appointments due to the competition in their district/state.</p>

<p>In this case, SLS has a strong resume, but can make it stronger as he will need the most competitive file possible. He asked nicely and 2 lovely ( ;) )parents offered some suggestions. Sounds like a college confidential thread to me...</p>

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<p>I really appreciate all of you looking at my file.</p>

<p>The main reason for posting it was to find out if I should retake the ACT and if I needed more ECs.</p>

<p>Thanks to all of you for your advice.</p>

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<p>Are you guys saying that he-she needs a 27 composite score on the ACT to get into the top percentile?</p>

<p>You got a really nice lookin' resume here SLS</p>

<p>I Don't think your ACT score is bad at all</p>

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<p>SLS already has a 28 on the ACT. You're right, dylan, the resume looks great. However, in order to apply with the strongest possible profile, it would be great to have a higher score. Solid prepping can lead to a better score. Sounds like that's what he's planning.</p>

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<p>Yes, I think I am going to retake in October, which is the soonest I can. </p>

<p>From there, we shall see what happens. </p>

<p>Thanks for all of your insight everyone.</p>

<p>By the way, I am a he, if it bugs anybody. Haha.</p>