Recent content by Northwoods

I'm curious. Is the AIM cadre the cadets whose swabs are away on Eagle? Or is there a different cadre crew for AIM vs swab summer? If the latter does the same crew run all 3 sessions of AIM?

Regarding passports, because there are often questions here, go to the State Department website and look up processing times as they change often. That way you're not surprised when it takes so long to get it back. If you need it faster than standard processing you can pay extra to expedite...

FWIW, my understanding is that AIM and academy admissions have such different criteria that acceptance or rejection for AIM is basically irrelevant to odds of admissions. Applying to AIM, regardless of result (in-person, virtual, or rejection), helps with admissions as it shows active interest...

Yes! DS is going to a place (Grit Works) that specializes in training high school athletes that want to be competitive college athletes to maximize their potential performance. He showed the CGA exercise plan to them and they said it was a really good one. They want him to do that, on top of...

FYI, that was DS posting on my account.

Congratulations! I was accepted as well, so I hope to see you there. God bless America!

I just got accepted to AIM! I wasn't sure if I would make it, since I was very late in submitting my application (I hit submit about 20 seconds before it closed), but I am very excited to have this opportunity. I hope to see you all in CT this summer! God bless America!

I think you're good on leadership with CAP and CGAux, plus the other stuff you listed. I'd really focus on athletics if i were you. 2 or 3 sports you have have some good skills in will be very important. Bumping up your SAT won't hurt, 1400 is good enough, but a 1450 is better.

DS checked again and he was accepted to AIM!!!

DS says nothing in his Bears Den.

You posted that while I was typing my other response. Swim team is great! Unless it's year round you'll want to find 1-2 other sports as well. At my local high school kids that do separate fall, winter and spring sports get a "Triple Threat" award. DS will be list 4 years of those when he...

A 6 minute for 1 mile will be a little over 9 minutes for 1.5 miles (you usually can't quite hold a given pace over that longer distance). That's still a really good time, around 90 points on the PFE. Make sure you're doing the sit ups correctly. If you're doing 100, correctly, in 2 minutes...

I feel like you've been here before asking the same question. Maybe that was someone else. Regardless, first things first. Change your user name to something not your real name. That's actually a rule on this forum. Second, you must be at least 17 at the end of June the year you'd start...

Assuming DS get an appointment my plan was to pay off the ica with 529 funds on condition he put what have been the payment into a Roth IRA. I like that better than rolling funds because it starts a habit of saving and investing.

Registered. Thanks!