college to the academy

The most common advice I see on these forums is to take Plebe Year Courses if you are a college re-applicant, but here's the question: I have already taken Calculus 1 and English 1 & 2. Do I take them again to prove to the Academy that I can do well? Haven't I already proven I can do well by...

Past USAFA college applicants or parents of prior applicants, It would be very helpful to me and the other applicants applying in college to know when you heard back from USAFA.

Good evening SA Forums, I have a few questions that need answers and just observations and advice of what to do! I put them in bullet points so that they are easier to answer. If you do not know, I am considering applying to USNA in college. I am high school senior who is nowhere near a...

Hello service academy forums, my situation is complex. I am an 18 year old, female senior, in high school and I discovered the service academies in March of my junior year (2022). I had no idea what they were and had never heard of them. After doing some intense research into them, I knew this...

Hi everyone, Apologies if I am going about this incorrectly: it's my first time on this forum, but I'm searching high and low for some information. 99% of the data I've found on attending the USAFA academy is regarding students going straight from high school. That is not my scenario. I...

For most of high school, I thought I wanted to be an engineer in the private sector, so most of my resume and extracurriculars were geared toward that (i.e. advanced math, physics, math clubs, some sports). It wasn't until hearing about a friend of mine get into USNA that I began looking into...

Hello all, I applied last year to the Naval Academy and heard back the first week of April that I had been denied. I applied out of the first Congressional District in Virginia. I am currently on a Marine Option NROTC scholarship to Virginia Tech and I'm majoring in political science. I did not...

Hey everyone, I was doing a little bit of research on this forum in order to gauge whether anyone else had attempted to transfer from a 4 year public institution to the academy. I couldn't find much so I figured I would create a thread. To give a little background, I am a freshman mechanical...