<p>I go to a pretty good high school that requires a test to enter it, and it doesn't rank its students. I have an 88.4 average. Every year, the Naval academy and West Point take 3 people each year from my school, and I know this for a fact. I even received a letter for a CVW, if that is an indication of their interest in me. </p>
<p>I failed the CFA at the seminar. i didn't train enough, and I thought round was a shape. So i worke do it , and took it again recently.
my results this time around were:
41 ft bb throw
75 pushups
78 situps
13 pullups
10.5 sec shuttle run
7:58 mile run
im actually pretty happy with everything, except the bb throw.
I'd like to know others have to say about my results.</p>
<p>I graduated from west point a few years back and I remember there being a basketball throw. The way I practiced for it was by throwing a medicine ball in addition to normal lifting. About that other stuff I have no idea what a CVW is. Dont get overly concerned with the PT test for the entrance exam. Focus on school and your extracurriclar leadership activities. Also, hit the SATs hard. I took it 6 times just to bump my score up from the low 1200s to the 1300s.</p>
<p>You might want to check these threads @ serviceacademyforums.com – I think you’ll get useful responses from BGOs and current midshipmen re: the importance of the CFA:
*CFA Evaluation
*Need help on CFA -Trouble with basketball throw</p>
<p>Easing up on the arrogance may help in the interviews. Thinking your a shoe in with an 88.4 average is far from reality, regardless of how “competitive” you make your school out to be. Many kids with much higher grades get rejected. Your CFA is fine, your run time is very weak. Get that down. I wouldn’t worry too much about the BB throw. Just get your runtime down.</p>
<p>You don’t mention if you play any varsity sports. 90+% of those who attend do. I don’t quite understand the comment about a specific number being accepted from you high school each year, that really isn’t how the admissions process works. I also agree that your GPA is by no means stellar.</p>
<p>adam’s on the money. Furthermore, while profiles of past classes give the general picture of a nationwide class, it provides little insight to any individual’s specific competition, i.e. those in your district, state, etc. Watching this over years reveals that most years applicants living in eastern Maryland and northern VA must be far more competitive than he/she hailing from western Wyoming. On average, in most years. </p>
<p>So adam, you’re right for lots of reasons. Profiles paint global picture of the averages and to lesser degree the ranges and variability of candidates and appointees. And of course the other fly in this ointment is that minority candidates are only compared to other minority candidates. Not relative to the universe of applicants. So for certain genetically gifted folks, all bets are off in terms of the profiles having any value in predictability of receiving appointments, unless one is both genetically gifted and whole-person top scoring. Those rare persons are literal slam dunks if they’re healthy.</p>
<p>ahh.
whoops.
i’m on the varsity wrestling and cricket teams at my school.
I’m a vice president of 2 clubs,
recently elected president of an organization outside of school,
I was vice president of the youth group at the temple I attend.
I have a 31 on my ACTs, 30 eng, 33 math, 33 reading, 29 science, and 8 for the writing.
SATs: 720 reading, 640 math.
And there are further interviews?
I finished my application a week before the posting of the topic…
Yeah, I know my running’s weak. I’m working on it.</p>
<p>Whistle Pig – your post makes me wonder about whether female applicants are similarly rank ordered with other female applicants, or whether there is a high enough % of female mids that the female applicant pool is not separately evaluated. and the same Q. about female ROTC candidates (non-Nursing Option)</p>
<p>koko, your 33 Math ACT is a great match to what the Navy is currently seeking.</p>
<p>I triple the comment about running. Of the three metrics: sit-ups/curls, pushups, and running, running is the most difficult in which to score highly. Give a person 30 days, and they can blow out the other two, but not running. Running takes months to improve.</p>
<p>Last I checked, the Physical Fitness score, at least in NROTC, is determined by the WEAKEST of the three tests. 105 curlups, 90 pushups, both Outstanding, but 12:00 mile and a half run… just SATISFACTORY grade. always work on the weakest link.</p>
Not to disappoint you but getting an invite to cvw in reality means squat… Plenty who never get invites and get appointments and plenty with invites that get the TWL.</p>
<p>While in general, CurrentMid’s point has much merit, I’d differ somewhat re: CVW. They are not passed out randomly or as a lottery function. Only viable, attractive (for whatever the USNA’s reasons) candidates receive them. </p>
<p>Thus on one hand, no, to my constrained knowledge, a CVW adds no overt “value” to a candidate’s candidacy beyond exhibiting continued, genuine interest, a good thing in any case, if just a warm fuzzy rather than adding points to one’s whole person score, as such. </p>
<p>And of course, it’s ultimate purpose is not to overtly “sell” USNA to its participants so much as to expose those attractive candidates to its realities, absent the smoke, mirrors, fluff other USNA admission activities might offer …hopefully enabling better, more enlightened decisions in the event there is a candidate decision to be made.</p>
<p>On the other hand, while they can and have been had for the asking sometimes, they are mostly awarded and offered by those engaged in the admission and appointment process. Thus, it is a most positve “indicator” if not always a catalyst toward either of those. </p>
<p>Remember, this is about one of life’s greatest dreams (or should be) more than it is about solving a math problem. Let’s not diminish nor denigrate anything that fuels and nurtures dreams coming true.</p>
<p>i understand that it means squat.
However, I thought of it as whistlepig said, the fact that I was more or less chosen to visit, probably means that they are interested in me.</p>
<p>DunninLA - The Academy PRT standards are way tougher than ROTC. The minimum passing run time is 10:30, so he’s got to really get his run time improved just to pass.</p>