+1 hornet. Stress and time management will impact your sleep schedule.
FYI, if sleep is important to you, and you end up going the plan B route {AFROTC) , I would think you will have less sleep than 8 hours, maybe 6 because dorms are insanely loud, and just because you have to be up for PT at 5:30, your non-ROTC roommate might not have class until 10, and come into your room at midnight, waking you up, than for the next 2 hours you stare at the ceiling listening to him/her snore, watching the clock counting down how many hours until you have to get up.
Even if your roommate and you are on the same schedule, it doesn't mean the neighbors next door playing Xbox with a group of friends are going to stop playing before midnight or scream down the hall to someone.
That is dorm living at a traditional college. Hence why stress and time management will matter either way.
To add onto hornet's OPs world comment. He is correct. At UPT, you could have academics until 4. Get home, make dinner, and then study until 10 for tomorrow's flight which has a 4:30 showtime. If you do the math, and fall asleep at exactly at 10, you will have maybe 5 1/2 hrs of sleep. That day, after finishing flying, you are back home at the same time and now as tired was you are, you will spend the next 6 hours studying academics for tomorrows class. Repeat everyday Mon- Friday for a year, not including IFS.
Anyone that wants this path, read ALL of Raimius's blog. It gives a realistic world of how life will be in 4 short years after you arrive at the AFA.
Ask parents of UPT students, like fencer, stealth or myself. Our children don't talk to us during the week. We get a weekend phone call, usually on Saturday because on Sunday they are back to studying. This does not end with winging, because when you get to your FTU (airframe training), you go through the same rigor.
IOWS, the sleep issue will not be 4 years, or 5 if you go UPT. It will be 6, at the least.
~~~Ask Flieger or Bullet about sleep in the operational world when you have kids and the 1st go, or deployed and living in a tent with 3 other guys.
Just saying, sleep or lack there of is something that will be a part of your life at different points of your life for as long as you are in the AF.
~~~~ That is what leave is for!
OBTW, have you looked at the course curriculum for the AFA? The AFA isn't commonly joked about as the Little Engineering School in the Rockies for nothing. Basically, even an econ major has more science/math classes than the AFROTC econ major. Hence, the reason why they look at your Math portion of the SAT. They want to make sure from a national perspective that this foundation is there compared to your peers.