Has Auburn accepted you? If not, have you gone on Naviance?
Naviance should show you the stats of kids at your school that were accepted, waitlisted, and rejected.
I don't know Auburn stats, and since I have no bone in the fight, I am too lazy to dig through the bowels of Auburn to see what their admission stats are.
In the yrs I have been here, I have never seen a post where they say my school is not competitive academically. However, the fact is schools have their own way to see how competitive your school is, basically they look at the school profile and see the % that go Ivy, 4 Private, 4 yr Public, CC/Tech or work.
~ This gives them insight to the rigor and grading. You are top 15%, if their profile says 15% go Ivy, 20% go Private, 40% go Public, 20% go CC. 5% go work, you look better than if 0% go Ivy, 20% go Private, 20% go Public, 40% go CC, and 20% work.
One is saying grading is hard from a college admissions perspective, one is saying As are handed out like candy on Halloween.
That is why admissions ask for a sealed transcript. Typically it will include the school profile, showing how many APs are offered, the wcgpa scale, the academic requirements (gym, electives) with your academic grades. They want to level the playing field. It would be wrong to penalize a kid if they have to take 4 yrs of PE, while another only has to take 1 yr, and can now take more rigorous courses. In NC our DS could not take an AP unless they took the regular course 1st. IOTW, you had to have Bio, before you could take AP Bio. In VA, our DD could take std., honors or AP.
DS would have taken an academic hit compared to DD if admissions looked at AP without seeing the school profile.
Again, this is why Naviance is great. They can show you how your school, and the students from your school fared.
The only thing I would say about the interviewer's comment is rack your brain regarding the exact words they said. You are competitive is vague. You are the most competitive is different.
Nobody here is on the boards, and even if any are on the boards, because there is a classified information issue, they would be silent.
I have said it before and will say it again, we can say YES you are a shoe in, but 2 days from now those fears and concerns will arise again. You need to move forward with the belief you will be in NROTC next yr no matter what the result will be.
That means not only the financial, but more importantly as a new mid. train, train, train for the PFT. You don't want to be that mid where they are screaming your last name on the 1st day because you are the last person passing the finish line for the run, or the one where they have to keep correcting your sit up, push up form. You want them not to know your name in that scenario.
This is also true for scholarship recipients...bust the PFT because you believed that after taking the PFA you were done, you are in trouble. You can't contract until you pass it to their stds. Your coach may have allowed you to play it loose regarding the form when counting, the mids will not play it loose, they will be anal on the form. It is common for the scores from the PFA to drop for the PFT for that exact reason.