<p>c/falcon, are you still working on leadership skills with NHS? An earlier post said that your school did not have NHS. Did you get a chapter started at your HS? That must have been a lot of work? How many are in your chapter? That demonstraits leadership as well. </p>
<p>It sounds like you are totally consumed with getting into the AFA. What other outside activities do you participate in that are NOT JROTC? </p>
<p>Were ninth grader's in the same building with the 10th - 12th?</p>
<p>momofboyz, i do not recall stating that i started my own chapter of NHS. I recall syaing that there wasen't a chapter in my school; however, that was before I found out that my school did in fact had NHS, except they called themselves ARISTA. Other extracurriculars besides JROTC are those extracurriculars that are sponsored by JROTC, such as the Awareness Presentation Team and Drill Team. Im in a chorus and im a soloist, I do not know if that shows leadership. And baseball JV It's hard multitasking but I want to join NHS.
All grade students in my school are in the same building, my school has 4,000 students.</p>
<p>oh i forgot, I was also in Cadet Council. But that is also sponsored by JROTC.</p>
<p>I would recommend you find other community service projects. I know your time is limited, but do you attend any church youthgroup service projects.</p>
<p>What does ARISTA stand for? What service projects do they do (if any)?</p>
<p>Well, I do not know what ARISTA stands for, I do know that there NHS and they do community service projects likes the Key Club. Im planning to be a Altar Guide in Church. Mass is at Satuday at 7 and im free that time. I would be in boy scouts but they meet wednesday's after school, which I'm not free that time. I don't want to neglet sports because they can kick me out and ruin my chances of earning a varsity letter. In JROTC im the new Non Commision Officer In Command for Community Service. So I have to search to community service activites for school participation. I have found and already scheduled community service activites such as blood drives and beach clean ups.</p>
<p>c/falcon, you don't want to get yourself going into too many directions. The service academies look for: academics, leadership, service, athletics, work experience, etc. They want you to be really involved in a few ECAs that you excell at and hold leadership positions in. It's not necessarily quantity, but quality. So, number one, pick a few ECAs to do and work hard at doing them well. Such as...Participate in at least 2 competitive sports. Stay involved in JROTC. Join a few clubs at your school (it doesn't necessarily have to be NHS, although that helps). Honestly, that should be enough as far as ECAs go. As long as you do them well, that will be plenty. Try to incorporate leadership into your ECAs (ie, president/vp/chairperson of a school club, team captain, JROTC leadership, etc.). Number two, focus on your academics. Get your GPA up, take as many AP classes as you can, and study for the SAT/ACT. During the summer time, get a job, and if you can, work a little bit through the school year. I suggest getting more involved at your church, because that counts as service and leadership. If you do those things, then you will have a stronger case for an appointment.</p>
<p>Thanks. I will try my best to satisfy those needs of the air force academy. I try to balance my work through out the week. I know that life in the air force academy is similar to mine. THat even on the weekends there is work to do. You still have to polish your shoes and iron your uniform making sure it is perfect. And from the letters I receieve from cadets they say the AFA is busy as hell. I find myself in that situation, except I don't have to march everywhere and I dont have upperclassman yelling at me contanstly. I wake up at 0500 and go i try to go to sleep at 2300 but then I always seem to be going to sleep at 2430 or 0100 or even sometimes 0200. Then I only get less than 4 hours of sleep and I have to wake up the next day, extremely tired. I don't know what kept me from breaking in two. It was my fury that I had, that warrior mentality that said I'm fighting for a reason and that reason was the AFA. THat kept me alive. I was having problems at home at the time, problems with my parents. That distracted me a lot during the school year. But I never let myself down. Every failure I endured taught me never to quit. Falure is a far better teacher than success. My friends keep telling me I'm crazy and that I'm only human. That may be true I do have the potential. I have three more years left of high school, I want to make the best of it, for my family, for my hispanic community, for my pride, but most importantly, for me.</p>
<p>Then consider yourself part of the USAFA class of 2013, because it will happen if you keep that mentality. Good for you.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot.</p>
<p>You look very good academically, but you really need to work hard on your physical conditioning even if you do get in with those scores, or else you will have a very hard time surviving basic training. Here's an idea of what the new freshmen are scoring on the physical fitness tests:
Sit Ups: A lot of people can max out at 95, the average is around 70 (2 mins)
Pull Ups : Average is 12
Mile run: We do a 1.5 mile run here, the average for males tends to be around 10-11 minutes, which would equate to around a 6:40 mile time.
Push ups: I know a lot of people who can max this at 72; the average is 48. (2 minutes)</p>
<p>Granted, I wasn't it good enough shape to achieve those scores entering the academy, but I wasn't far off at all. Keep in mind you will also have to deal with the altitude.</p>