If I am right, USAFA only states that the min. requirement to be deemed non-competitive is a 24E ACT or 490 V for SAT. It says nothing about Reading.
Now for why some older posters like me will take stats from HS (gpa, rank, etc) with a grain of salt. There are over 2000 HSs in this nation. Nobody knows how competitive your HS is from your state or a national perspective.
~ No offense, but if I could get a dollar for everytime a candidate here said I go to a competitive HS, than I would be living on a private island and not working.
~~ This is why your GC will submit a school profile because that will allow USAFA to use their algorithm to equalize your school to the other candidates. Colleges will do this too.
Thus, stating I am #1 out of 193, 3.952, 4.2 really means nothing when you think about it, unless you say that 50% of the kids go to an Ivy. If 50% go to Ivy and 0% go straight into the workforce than what that says you have test anxiety, but if 0% go to an Ivy and 50% go to workforce, than it says something different about your scores. Hence, why they look at everything, just not one aspect like the ACT or SAT.