General question that everyone probably wants to know

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suh_sung_woo

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Hello my name is Sung Suh from Kingman Arizona. I am a senior, my application is complete, and I am just waiting with questions just floating around in my head.

Kingman is a small town and I'm sure not everyone applying to the Air Force Academy isn't from big cities with a lot of opportunities for extra curricular activities. I've read other people's "is this good enough" posts and they had a lot of different sports and a lot of different clubs. What I noticed from all of them was that, if they were in a lot of clubs and sports, they had one or two years of experience as a member, club officer, or co/captain.

My school is an academy and has about 500 students. The other high school in town has 2000 but their extracurricular sports/clubs aren't any different than our school. Some of the sports that I've read from other people's posts that are not available in Kingman or even in my county are: Go-kart racing, golf, boxing, hockey, skiing, and wrestling. Most of the people written a thread has included majority of sports but for about one year each. And same thing with clubs and other activities. There are only 4-5 clubs at my school.

So with this difference of availability of extra-curricular activities, is there a better chance for someone who has tried a lots of activites with less leadership or someone who has done solid amount of activities with great leadership?

Also to those who has taken ACT and already got their appointment for class of 2015, what was your score?
Are my scores any different than the ones that got accepted?

English: 27
Math: 31
Reading: 31
Science: 25
Writing: 26

I wish everyone a good luck with their appointments for class of 2015!
 
DS's:
English: 35
Math:28
Reading:33
Science: 29

SA Applicant: USAFA only

p.s. good luck to all of you fellow stalkers! :) You are all destined for great things.
 
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A few ECs with heavy commitment and leadership is generally considered better.
 
English: 28
Math: 31
Reading: 34
Science: 32

Don't worry too much about having less opportunities, the academy takes this into consideration, for instance, my school has about 110 kids in it, so we don't actually have any clubs, and limited sports, but taking leadership roles in a small number of activities turned out to be better than just being in lots of them.
 
I haven't been accepted, I'm still waiting.

English: 30
Math: 34
Reading: 30
Science: 27
Writing: 28
 
English: 33
Math: 33
Reading: 28
Science: 26
 
My daughter's scores
GPA: 4.00
Class Rank: 1
Class Size: 292

Test Scores:
SAT Verbal/Critical Reading: 660
SAT Math: 680
SAT Writing: 690
ACT English: 29
ACT Math: 29
ACT Reading: 32
ACT SR: 22
 
English: 33
Math: 33
Reading: 31
Science: 35

I haven't been appointed to USAFA, but I have to USMA.
 
reading: 36
english: 36
math: 36
science: 35

have not been appointed
 
GPA 3.38
Class Rank 111/368
ACT:
Eng 30
Math 35
Reading 35
Sci 33
SAT:
Verbal 650
Math 740
Writing 610

Falcon Foundation Scholarship last year, Appointment class of 2015
 
rank: 33/401
gpa: 4.0 unweighted
SAT: 640 -m; 650 -v
ACT: math:32;English:30;reading:32; science:28

leadership and committment to activities over a long period of time seemed to work for my son - he recently accepted his appointment
 
Someone should make a general 'am I competitive' thread--it would clean this place up a lot. :rolleyes:

anyways
SAT:
770/660/650
Math/Verbal/Writing

GPA:
3.46 unweighted (HS)
3.71 unweighted (College)

didn't get in last year (DoDmerb disqualified); waiting to hear this year. :thumb:
 
2 Nominations

GPA: 3.85 Unweighted. (4.0 weighted. Thank you AP...not)
Class Rank: 29/286

Math: 28
English: 30
Reading 34
SR: 31

Eagle Scout, Civil Air Patrol, Class President, Summer Seminar, etc etc

...and still waiting. I guess no news is good news at this point. I've pretty much got my mind wrapped around Plan B at this point. If I get accepted, great. If not, I'm going to be a Kansas State Wildcat and I won't look back. Hang in there everyone.
 
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