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DD‘s college plan B is with a school that has crosstown arrangements for the AFROTC units at USC, UCLA and Loyola. Can anyone offer up any insights to these particular Dets, size, overall culture and experience? She will not be on scholarship but will apply next year.

I have found myself on this forum working in the background to help my daughter in her SA goal. I enlisted in the early Clinton era and ended up after three years in the fleet as an alternate for several different USN officer programs. I wasn’t a motivated highschool student but changed my...

DODMERB is behind and "doing their best" using cave drawings, stone knives and smoke signals as everyone knows. With DD knowing she will need a waiver for some food allergies she had as a toddler but not since - is there any path to send in food challenge results if we get them done on our own...

DD took CFA today and posted personal best scores on every event except the 1 mile which was disappointing for her. Her progress: Late Oct: Bball Throw: 37 Flex Arm Hang: 6 Sec Shuttle Run: 10.8 SitUps: 23 Push Ups: 11 1 Mile Run: 10:30 Late Dec: Bball Throw: 41 Pull Up: 1 Shuttle Run: 9.6...

Just discovered the gainserviceacademy site and it listed math test scores weighted as 25% towards overall candidate score. Can anyone verify if this is true? Seems like the only schools that require it these days are the SAs. Just my opinion but I persona don’t single test score shouldn’t...

Well…color me surprised but DD is applying to USAFA. I’m a SA grad but my daughter and I are not cut from the same cloth. I was the typical athletic extrovert with lots of extracurricular involvement and meh grades for an academy. My daughter is wayyyy smarter and far more academically...