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I had swiss citizenship as well, and although it lengthened the security clearance process, it is no big deal. I had to shred my passport and sign a few papers when I was a 4 degree but that's it.

Soaring ip's cannot skip ifs. If you have a ppl you can skip it, or at least you could three years ago. There is no reason to skip ifs. It's free flying and if you cannot pass ifs you couldn't pass upt so you might as well go and enjoy it. Besides who can complain about free food?

medical related conditions like poor eyesight, etc.

I doubt anyone could possibly know the answer to this. I highly doubt this will ever be waived in the military though. Vision is crucial and as this is a progressive degenerative disease there really is a slim chance of it being waived I would say.

yes definitely

Yep, it's a sad day when that starts happening.

No, I'm not in admissions, but I saw the effects of diversity recruitment when I was at usafa. There were many people who struggled hard and were kicked out of usafa and it was clear that they were part of that diversity recruitment. You wondered how they were admitted with some extremely low...

Class rank will provide you with tons of opportunities while at the academy. For instance, those ranked high will get the overseas ops Air Force assignments. You will also have opportunities for other foreign travel and airmanship opportunities like soaring instructor pilot that others will...

I'm sorry, I actually have first hand experience with things I talk about, not hear say from my husband or daughter. Yes of course those things are edges. That makes your application better therefore it's an edge. Diversity recruitment allows for people with less qualification to be admitted...

look here, this will list all the averages and stats for the 2017 appointees. http://www.academyadmissions.com/admissions/advice-to-applicants/all-applicants/

Exactly maplerock.

That has not and has never been a policy. They look for the best. If you didn't grow up with a lot of opportunities or whatever and there are people that have better applications than you, too bad! People aren't equal. period.

I also don't think looking for an edge is a hit on anyone's character! It's completely ok to look for any edge during a competition. It's just a sad state of modern political correctness that we even have to think about "diversity".

It's interesting to note that there are threads right now asking if usafa is looking for more women and more minorities. Now why would you care if you were a woman or minority unless you were looking for an extra edge? You don't see guys, specifically white males asking if the academy is...

Who said the academy test was a joke? Active duty and academy are two different things with two different pt tests.... That's interesting to know that Cadets grade the tests now. I would've liked that a lot haha