My Chances

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<p>I am a junior in high school and I am starting to apply to the Naval Academy. I would like any input on my chances of actually receiving a congressional nomination and being accepted. I have a 3.95 unweighted GPA and a 4.75 weighted. I have a 7/342 class rank. </p>

<p>Classes Taken in Middle School
Algebra 1, Spanish 1</p>

<p>Freshman Schedule
Honors English I, Honors Geometry, Honors Earth Science, Health Team Relations, Spanish 2, World History Honors, Honors Biology, Gym</p>

<p>Sophomore Schedule
Honors English 2, Honors Algebra 2, Honors Pre-Calculus, Honors Spanish 3, Honors Spanish 4, Biomedical Technology, Honors Civics & Economics, Honors Chemistry, </p>

<p>Junior Schedule
AP Biology, AP Calculus AB, Honors Physics, Honors English 3, Honors US History,
Honors Medical Science 1</p>

<p>Senior Schedule (what I am signed up for)
AP Calculus BC, AP Government, AP Environmental Science, AP Statistics,
Honors Medical Science 2, Honors English 4, Honors Anatomy/Physiology</p>

<p>SAT: Critical Reading 700, Math 640, Writing 570
ACT: English 30, Math 29, Reading 33, Science 28</p>

<p>Extracurriculars
Played violin for 9 years, Soccer coach, Camp Counselor, Year round soccer player and 2 year letter man, individually planned a soccer gear collection drive that collected over 300 items, National Beta Club Member, Key Club Member, Certified Soccer Referee, Spanish Club Member, National Athletic Honor Society Member, Volunteer at a dog shelter, nominated to the National Student Leadership Conference, I have applied to volunteer at a hospital over the summer and was invited to come interview.</p>

<p>I am looking to major in Engineering, most likely Aerospace/Aeronautical.</p>

<p>For those of you who took the time to read all that THANK YOU! Could you give me any opinions and recomendations I would appreciate it.</p>

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<p>You are establishing a very impressive, outstanding record. Keep working hard and doing your best. Try and boost your math performance on the tests. Ideally you’d want to reverse your verbal and math, but we don’t live in an ideal world. See if you can strengthen that. And work hard on your strength and swimming, altho you lend no indication about your abilities and progress in those areas. </p>

<p>As you’ll learn, none here can lend much if any genuine insight to your “chances” for many reasons including and especially, your political, geographic, and academic competition. They can vary each year. Think of this process as dual track … 3Qing and Nominating. And both are graded on “the curve” rather than absolutes. Now it’s overstatement suggesting there is huge variation on these from year to year, but there can be, often is. Especially from the USNA side. Their priorities shift in terms of target populations. And that can and sadly, often results in very outstanding students being denied while many students of lesser credentials are appointed. Again, not to overstate, but it happens regularly. Observers have seen many students of far superior credentials profile than yours declined, and many lesser apppointed. So do your best on all aspects of the application process, which is an endurance test, for sure.</p>

<p>One specific note that you can do and should do right now as a junior … Your math and English teachers will be required to submit ideally … thorough, comprehensive, detailed, and timely on-line recommendations. You might want to begin to discuss and “coach” them on this. These are often extremely important in culling the herd and many teachers make the mistake of thinking your letter is “just one more” like ol’ State U or Podunk Community College might request of applicants. Not so. </p>

<p>Keep studying, behaving, serving, working out, developing your swimming, and loving your mom, dad, and Creator. For it is a combo of these 3 that from whence all blessings flow. ;)</p>

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<p>thank you so much. that was helpful and I appreciate your taking the time to read my long post and responding in such a manner</p>