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    Physical conditioning is priority at R-day-Beast

    Hello, Heard there were some cadedts sent hom (separated) during beast relative to inadequate physical standards (pull ups seemed to factor high0.. Any specifics on this. If true how many males/females.
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    Visiting West Point - MAPS R-day

    Hello. The family will be visiting West Point July 19th through 23rd (R-day 23rd for MAPS); Daughter will be attending. We are planning to fly to WP from West Coast on the 19th and fly out on 24th, so we will have some time to check things out. I would like to know what some of the WP veterans...
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    appointments

    A few question: if 500 appointments going out in firtst wave then when will the rest go out? What is guess on how many went before first wave. How long will it be before USMAPS appointments go out? Direct appointments get 45 days to accept, how do MAPS appointees get? Thanks.
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    USMAPS calss size

    Hello. Would be interested in tif anyone knows his years USMAPS class size. Have seen both 228 and 243. Also, any news/infor on whether expected to be the same this next year.
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    CFA - notification

    How are you notified that you passed the CFA. Is it online or is it part and parcel of getting a 3Q notification. I understand that the 3Q notification comes via the mail; it would be appreciated if we could get some info on this. Thanks.
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    percent admitted

    Some sites claim USCGA has an admit rate from 22% to about 30%. This does not make sense to me. Collegeboard for instance says they get admissions info. directly form the schools. Collegeboard says about 1400 applications, sounds way to low. I thought that the number was more like 3000 to...
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    percent admitted

    Have been looking at the college ranking/selection websites (i.e., collegeboard and collegedata, etc) and noticed that the USCGA admit rate is much higher than the other Service Academies. For many years I heard that the USCGA was one of the toughest of the Academies to get into. So this does...
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    LOA

    Hello, My son received an LOA to one of the service academies and is very happy to say the least. He is now thinking about next steps. He is planning to call the nominating sources to let them know he got the LOA, He still wants nominations to other Academies since he is still undecided...
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    sat vs act

    I heard that the USMA will not mix SAT and ACT individual scores. Can someone please confirm. If not, bummer. So... if cannot mix then would my ACT or SAT be better (below). Do they only take the ACT math and english or do they consider the other subjects? My guess is they would use my SAT...
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    CFA score

    My son took the CFA at the summer session and has improved since then (scores below). He included heavier weights in his running based training this summer. I asked him if he was going to take one more time and he said no. He wants to focus on his cross country team training which does not...
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    importance of eagle scout adn math SAT

    Whatis the most important aspect of admission tothe USNA. I hear it is Eagle scout and math SAT (700+), any thoughts on importance of eagle and is 690 in the hunt? Also, my son is going to attend USNA SS. He is an Eagle scout (scout NHS, order of the arrow) has good grades (3.7 UW, 4.0 W...
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