Read your own post.
It says on the Air Force Academy website under CFA that "Below-average performance may be disqualifying."
The key words are MAY BE
Not WILL BE.
Just like they say a 24E or 490 V on the ACT/SAT MAY BE deemed non-competitive.
There are some, probably not a lot that will move forward. There is no waiver. Either you passed or you failed.
I am totally with you that they need to pass it to be considered 3Q. Academic, physical and medical.
However, I am just saying this is their way to send a warning shot to candidates not to think that this should be blown off.
20 under the avg does not equate into a FAIL.
~ I think that was your assumption.
~ Again, they do not post the fail. Let's say 75 BBall is avg for the class of 2019, but 50 is fail, than for the OP, their friends, did not fail, because they are at 55.
I maybe 1000% off on this, but let's assume Sen. XYZ gives a principal to candidate Jones. If that candidate is medically qualified, than USAFA must appoint them. They could be deemed academically not qualified by USAFA terms on their website, but that is how the charging system world works.
~~ LOAs start rolling out in the summer, some get them before they submit their CFA.
~~~ I believe what they are told, if memory serves me correctly is that it is contingent upon submitting all parts of the application and a nomination.
~ Mike and Flieger will clarify that for us. Hence, their (USAFA) comment it MAY BE... not WILL or MUST BE.
I think it really comes down to responding to the OPs post.
~ We don't know the particulars. Did they have an LOA? Were they a principal? How many times did they reopen the CFA?
Back on topic
Acho,
What you have been told for last year was last year. You do not know the pool this year.
Years ago USAFA only posted the max. They wanted candidates to not know the fail or avg. Go for the max. If you feel right now you are in the avg range for portions of the exam, than read through every CFA thread here, be it USAFA, USNA or USMA.