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    AFROTC Scholarship options for Grad school

    Hello Folks Our DD will be a senior and graduate as a 2Lt with a degree in Mech eng in 2023. She would like to pursue grad school. Could someone advise what scholarship options maybe avail for grad school? Thanks
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    Cross Country as a Team Sport?

    Cross Country is a team sport. Last weekend were the NCAA Div 1 XC Championships at Terre Haute, Indiana. We were there to watch the tightly knit AF women's team as they supported and pushed each other to vault to #8 nationally - ahead of big names like Oregon, Colorado, Michigan, NAU, Boise...
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    A Parent's Guide to Year One at USAFA

    #1 was Assault course according to webguy. You can review his blog on this topic here: http://archive.usafawebguy.com/what-expect-jacks-valley
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    Plan B

    We did the same last year. And had the same experience. "Plan B" was fine to let them know by August mid about our decision
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    A Parent's Guide to Year One at USAFA

    I thought I would chime in. Our DD wrote us letters during BCT and they were descriptive. Her toughest episode was the "Gas Chamber". One has to be in the chamber with concenrated teargas (or something like that) for about a minute. The last 15 seconds you to have to remove your gas mask and...
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    TV Commercial

    In my view, the USA is doing relatively well in the areas of diversity and addressing discrimination and hopefully that will continue. There is always scope to improve and it's good discussions like this that keep us going. My previous country struggles with similar issues of diversity and...
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    RAND study on USAFA admissions

    Based on the ISBN#, I believe it was published in 2016; so fairly recent.
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    RAND study on USAFA admissions

    Hello I came across this recent RAND study on USAFA admissions and thought it might be of interest. http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR700/RR744/RAND_RR744.pdf
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    USAFA Class of 2020 Appointment Thread

    Hi - We are from District 26
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    USAFA Class of 2020 Appointment Thread

    Hi - Just signed up on this forum and this is my first post. My daughter was offered an appointment via a portal update 2/12. Lots of very useful information on this forum, so thanks to those who have generously shared. We are from CA
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