<p>Just how detrimental to your admissions process is not participating in this? I only got interested in applying to the USNA a mere 1-2 days ago, and the deadline to sign up for this has already passed. How badly will this affect me?</p>
<p>In no way is it a deal breaker. Nor a deal maker, i.e. being there can help or hinder. The latter if one is evaluated by cadre to be less than desirable candidate and/or one fails to do his/her best in passing the physical exam administered at NASS.</p>
<p>Modest momentum might be attained by passing the physical tests (and better yet, knocking out the pullups and maybe some of the other specific exercises) and meriting a thumbs-up report of the counselor.</p>
<p>But not being there? Virtually no deterrent to candidacy and appointment. Many appointees, in the end, did not attend NASS.</p>
<p>Now, to your screen name …Either/both might be more critical concerns.:eek:</p>
<p>Phew that’s a relief. I still wish I could’ve applied. I could probably have “knocked out” the pullups or pushups.</p>
<p>As for my screen name, well I was more aiming for it as a joke seeing as a fat person could not be anorexic, nor an anorexic person fat (looking back on it, I wish I had made it TheObeseAnorexic :P). But there is a ring of truth to it at any rate. I used to be fairly close to being anorexic only 1 year ago (not my fault at all, I had a hereditary familial disease that severely affected my weight among other things). And so, my friends and I would constantly crack jokes about me being “fat.” It was all in good fun, and now after my surgery to remove that disease, I have successfully passed into the realms of being athletically thin as opposed to anorexia. Fortunately, my weight works towards my advantage for the PT, seeing as its centered more around muscular endurance, and its easier for a light person to lift their own weight than a heavier person.</p>