| Moving Into the Air Force Academy calls for a | | | | getting a straight A average. The difficultness of |
| commitment, and a serious admission process. | | | | the classes you take matters as well. The Air |
| Your chances of going in the Academy aren't | | | | Force poses more weight on the difficultness of |
| good - less than one nominee in 50 gets admitted. | | | | the course load than it does on complete GPA |
| What follows are the faltering blocks that end | | | | necessities. If you're incapacitated academically, |
| most campaigner applications from succeeding, | | | | the time to find out about it is at the starting of |
| and how to cover them. | | | | your junior year in high school, where you should |
| We are presuming that you're registering this as a | | | | focus on study habit melioration and boosting your |
| high school junior. If you're beginning this | | | | GPA. GPA in the last two years of high school will |
| procedure in your senior year, you're starting it | | | | count for more than your early GPA. |
| late, and may have to channelise into the | | | | The Air Force puts lighter weighting on |
| Academy from another four year college. | | | | standardized test scores. While four-year |
| The first bumbling block is physical fitness. Each | | | | colleges use standardised exam scores to tell |
| year, the Air Force Academy needs all plebes to | | | | apart between students with about identical |
| do a times 1.5 mile run, and the popularise | | | | academic records, the Air Force treats them |
| energetic fitness test of pull ups, standing long | | | | somewhat as a pass-fail test. The Armed |
| jumps, sit ups and pushups, with a 600 meter run | | | | Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, while not a |
| all in 15 minutes. In detailed, this psychometric test | | | | substitute for the SAT or ACT, is a good adjunct. |
| has to be completed in Colorado Springs, | | | | Be sure to take it as well as the other tests. |
| Colorado, which is at high altitude. Unless you're | | | | The biggest filter for candidates trying to go into |
| practicing sports in high school, the odds that you'll | | | | the Air Force Academy is character. Character |
| pass this test the first time are pretty small. | | | | can be tough to determine objectively, so the |
| Related to this, the Academy looks for candidates | | | | Academy expects candidates to get letters of |
| who take part in team sports, and in athletics in | | | | good word from their residential area leaders, and |
| general. This displays that a educatee is willing to | | | | teachers, and employers, and the coordinators of |
| work, work hard, and work within a team to | | | | any volunteer administrations they go to. Focus |
| accomplish group goals, and to use disciplined | | | | on getting the best positive letters of good word |
| aggression to their individual aims. Basketball, | | | | you can get. When you write your admission |
| football, track, trap shooting and fencing are | | | | essay, focus on cases that showcase grades |
| sports the Air Force grades high in nominee | | | | where you wielded leadership, or showed potency |
| application processes. | | | | of character. This is the place to shine if you're |
| Like any college admission program, theoretical | | | | anxious about your academic . |
| performance is important. It's more than simply | | | | |