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Hello, I was just wondering if the “whole person concept” that the rated boards use to select pilots can rule out a poor GPA. Currently I have a 2.64 (I’m a first semester freshman, and have plenty of time to bring that up by balancing more humanities and easy A classes into my course load with...

Hello! Does anyone know if the Academy admissions panel considers the rank and difficulty of a candidate’s college when reviewing the applicant’s grades? I attend arguably one of the more difficult institutions to earn good grades in, and although I will do/am doing everything I can to get A’s...

Hello, I was just wondering if I could get anyone’s opinion on using the same essays this year when I reapply as I did last year. In my opinion, other than some slightly less mature writing that I have corrected, my essays last year were pretty good. Would the academy ding me points for using...

In my opinion you don’t even need to go to a gym for this test; I never did. Just make sure to not always do the same exercises in the same order. Switch it up, and instead of doing pull ups, make sure to do chin ups some days. Some days do everything else in the exam before you do pull ups so...

Not to be nit picky, but nobody who takes the exam with any intelligence/strategy goes over the max scores. The Academy uses a points system, and once you get the most points from a section, you can’t get any more. Every section I maxed out I stopped immediately and just used the extra time for...

The HQ will contact you to tell you who will be performing your interview AFTER you complete all required documents on your portal, including your PFT I believe. After HQ tells you who will conduct the interview, the detachment conducting the interview should contact you to set up a time (and...

Well they expect you to interview, and in all fairness they are supposed to coordinate the interview, but if they don’t contact you within a couple of weeks reach out to the HQ with the email/number provided in correspondences with AFROTC. I was told that someone would reach out to me to set up...

Assuming you’re talking about the documents required AFTER you’ve received your scholarship, you actually shouldn’t have submitted those already to my knowledge. My detachment said to hold off and they will take those physically when you arrive. In addition, on the actual forms it explicitly...

The Arch is a Rensselaer specific program in which all rising juniors take their would-be Fall semester classes in the Summer. Think of it as just a more intensive Summer school, except that everyone has to do it. (I believe this year is the first time it was required) This frees up a semester...

Hello everyone! I’m an incoming freshman at RPI doing AFROTC, and I was wondering if anyone knew how exactly students selected to continue in AFROTC would be able to do field training during their sophomore year summer, as well as the newly mandated Arch program. I understand that some...