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Congratulations!!! I have a DD who just graduated USAFA and a DD hopeful for 2021. My 2nd Lt DD was a preppie and it was the best thing that ever happened. She loved her fellow preppies and they became best of friends. I am a little confused how the prep school appointments are coming out before...

Ok. I will let her know. Thank you. It is kind of water under the bridge as of right now because one of her questions was related to what class would be better to finish with AP Chem vs AP Physics but she had to chose which track she would take and decided Chem. And regarding her electives. She...

My daughter has sent her ALO two emails (one per month) but has yet to receive a response. She just had some basic questions and wanted to let her ALO know she would like to attend USAFA. She is an rising Junior and has time but just find it odd that the ALO is not responding at all. Should we...

My DD is a Sophomore and would like to attend summer seminar next year. How hard is to get in? And what recommendations do you have to increase her chances of getting in?

I just wanted to let everybody know we have a NTX Parent Club. We try to get together once a month and have a lot of really fun events as well as a lot of support. The support is important for parents of all the cadet years but even more so Freshman year. We are on facebook (North Texas USAF...

If it is anything like last year (things change every year) my DD received her PO Box during BMT and they give you an opportunity to send a card with the PO Box on it home. I believe it was the end of the first week. Hope that helps. Hunterjumper

Wow. Sounds like she has a great resume. My DD got official word today and will be in the class of 2016. She attended the USAFA Prep School and it was worth every minute of it.

DD received a call from Congressman and was confirmed by counselor. Yipee!!!! :-) Hunterjumper67 (DD) USAFA Prep Feb 7th 2012

I asked DD who is in USAFA Prep this year. And it is true that athletes, priors, and minorities hold the vast majority of slots. However, DD is non-minority, non-recruited athlete, and non-prior and received a spot. She said she estimates probably about 10% of the preppies are non recruited...

Sorry meant DD ofcourse :-)

I can't answer for the Academy yet. But I am going to make an asumption that the USAFA Prep School meets the needs of the USAFA and DS made that mistake. The HS counselor told her to take Physics because she had not taken physics yet. However, not that she is at the USAFA Prep school they told...

For Prep School your chances are not bad at all. For Academy probably not competitive enough, scores and GPA are pretty high for their nomination. I would say you are about in the same boat my DS was last year, her GPA was slightly higher at 3.6 but her SATs were in the mid 500's. She was very...

I have to say I wondered about who could get an appointment to the Prep school myself when my DS was in your position. However, now I have to beg to differ with you. MY DS is at the USAFA Prep School this year. She is not a recruited athlete or active duty. And with her there are plenty of...

By no means an expert. Flieger or Chriscorp will respond when they get time and they know a whole lot more. However, before my daughter got accepted to Prep school for the coming year she was going to go to a University and we were given a heads up that those credits wouldn't count for the...

The counselor told DD a couple of weeks ago she would receive the ticket to CO per e-mail but we still have not received anything. We are currently in Europe so I am curious if anybody has received their flight tickets yet? Husband is flying out there same time DD is flying but wanted to wait...

WM Thanks again all. Especially Melindayching for bringing up this issue. I am too in the process of reading "Skies to Conquer" and was very concerned and so was DD. However, I know it was a sore spot in the AFA eyes and was worried about bringing it up because I didn't want anybody to take...

By all means re-apply. Things should be much easier. You know what to do and when to do it. What do you have to lose? Pursue your dreams!!!!

Thank you all. Thanks for the responses to the question about the nomination. It really is not super clear in the packet. My husband and I read it different and I just wanted to clarify. My husband felt it said that the PS would provide a board that reviews everything and DD did not need a...

Yeah, didn't have this in the paperwork either. I guess maybe have all the needed documentation readily available. My thing is that I would tell DD to proceed and apply but that seems hardly fair to the other kids that need a nomination if the prep school cadets don't need one. However, I bet...

Thank you. She was ecstatic when she received the news. That would be awesome!!!! So SAT doesn't count? Should she at least start the process of re-applying for a nomination? She received one last year but her SATs just were not high enough for USAFA. Or is the nomination part of what she does...