<p>Besides GPA and SAT’s and grades, is there anything I can be doing at the moment to prepare for the application? Is the nomination due during your senior year around november? For a moment I thought it was due your junior year I got worried. When’s the earliest we can submit nominations?</p>
<p>Is is possible to complete all of or at least part of the application and/or nomination right now (and save it for when it’s time to submit it) - or am I just being inpatient :-).</p>
<p>-George</p>
<p>Go to the academy admissions website and become so familiar with it that you have it almost memorized. Strongly consider applying for summer seminar - applications begin in January of your junior year. Also, it is never too early to work on physical fitness. Stay locked in on this forum. You'll get a lot of good encouragement and advice here - but don't believe everything we say here. Sometimes we get mixed up or our experience becomes out of date. Lots of luck!</p>
<p>I believe my son started the AFA's Application After April of his Junior year. From what I understand, the AFA's Application is completed on line.</p>
<p>all applications are done online now. the PCQ (Pre-Candidate Questionaire) should be available in January. get yourself in some e.c.'s, and sports also. find a job during the summer or something. make yourself useful, and don't be a couch potato.</p>
<p>I have a job now (working 7 hours on thanksgiving haha) i word on average 20 hours a week, and I have an extra job in the summer at a camp so i'm very busy (not including ap classes, CAP, cross country, etc etc etc...)</p>
<p>As for physical fitness I admit i'm not in great shape at the moment. i'm slightly over 5'7'' and 160 i can probably lose at lease 20-30 pounds which I will definetly do, academy or not. Cross country helped. Although I decided not to do winter track (XC hurt my grades a bit) i'm going to do spring track, and i'm running on my own a few times a week whenever i find time. I think I may get a bike trainer for cardio during the winter.</p>
<p>Anyway, back on topic. I like the idea of having the application online. What is the PCQ for? Does it effect their decision on appointments?</p>
<p>PCQ is to get your name into the system and to start the process of weeding you out. If you are very interested, apply for summer seminar. This will give you a first hand account of how you would be treated as a "doolie." It can help you make a final decision whether the military is for you (you'll love it, or hate it). Also, if you are at summer seminar, you get your candidate number first, which means you can start filling out other parts of your application earlier than others. </p>
<p>Keep your grades up, COMMUNITY SERVICE, SAT's, leadership, start getting physically fit, now. That way, you won't have such a hard time. Let your school guidance counc. at school know that you are interested in an academy and they can help direct you toward things that will help (Boy's State, for instance). </p>
<p>Ask your parents for help. Even if they don't know the system, they can come up to speed. They are interested in your future; they will help.</p>
<p>RTBdad is correct. Stay locked on here and you will find very credible guidance and advice. Good luck! :D</p>