goalsetter2025
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Hi All, new user here.
I'm applying for USNA 2025. With all the delays with USNA's application this year, I'd just like others to critique my application. Please don't chance me (instead, tell me where I lack so that I can prepare for interviews in case they ask me about my application "woes").
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Current college student, and will graduate in May 2021 with a STEM bachelors at 20 years old from an Ivy League university (Low 3.?? GPA). I did 2 years of ROTC, before I was not allowed to continue due to me not having my citizenship (I was a Japanese citizen up until July 2020). I am now naturalized (first generation American), but because I did not have my US citizenship, I couldn't continue ROTC at my school. I started my packet for Navy OCS, but was recommended by my recruiter to not do so because I lacked "military experience and/or lots of professional real-world experience". Instead, both my recruiter and ROTC instructor recommended me to the academy. I did a lot of research, and I am 100% committed to do ALL 4 years of education at USNA to get a 2nd bachelors.
STATS:
SAT = 1550 (770 M & 780 R/W) and 8/8/8 Essay
Homeschooled (lived all over the World because mom/dad are field physicians with WHO). Spent last 2 years of HS at a Japanese International School.
EC's:
High School: Judo-- 2X member of the Japanese Junior National Team. Lots of Competition experience on the world-level, including 2016 Rio Olympic Qualifiers (did NOT qualify). Because of my parents, I moved A LOT, so I learned Judo in Brazil and practiced wherever I moved before making the National Team.
College: Cofounded and VP of 2 clubs, including resurrecting the judo club. Ran marathons. Physics Research. 1 finance internship at a bank in Wall Street. Continued to mainly coach Judo because I had Achilles surgery before matriculating to college. I'm now back at 100%, and have notes from 3 different doctors for proof.
CFA/Misc.
"Passed" CFA with ROTC instructors at my college. For some reason, the CFA forms haven't been emailed to them yet. CAR/HS transcripts will be sent as soon as my counselors get them. I have reached out to all my potential SOE professors (including 1 noble prize recipient), and they've all agreed to do so. I applied for nominations in my current college district which is supposedly pretty competitive.
Where I lack:
No leadership in high school. Not a lot of "varsity" sports. Possible security concern because parents are still Japanese citizens. Low College GPA.
Thank you in advance!!!!
I'm applying for USNA 2025. With all the delays with USNA's application this year, I'd just like others to critique my application. Please don't chance me (instead, tell me where I lack so that I can prepare for interviews in case they ask me about my application "woes").
l
Current college student, and will graduate in May 2021 with a STEM bachelors at 20 years old from an Ivy League university (Low 3.?? GPA). I did 2 years of ROTC, before I was not allowed to continue due to me not having my citizenship (I was a Japanese citizen up until July 2020). I am now naturalized (first generation American), but because I did not have my US citizenship, I couldn't continue ROTC at my school. I started my packet for Navy OCS, but was recommended by my recruiter to not do so because I lacked "military experience and/or lots of professional real-world experience". Instead, both my recruiter and ROTC instructor recommended me to the academy. I did a lot of research, and I am 100% committed to do ALL 4 years of education at USNA to get a 2nd bachelors.
STATS:
SAT = 1550 (770 M & 780 R/W) and 8/8/8 Essay
Homeschooled (lived all over the World because mom/dad are field physicians with WHO). Spent last 2 years of HS at a Japanese International School.
EC's:
High School: Judo-- 2X member of the Japanese Junior National Team. Lots of Competition experience on the world-level, including 2016 Rio Olympic Qualifiers (did NOT qualify). Because of my parents, I moved A LOT, so I learned Judo in Brazil and practiced wherever I moved before making the National Team.
College: Cofounded and VP of 2 clubs, including resurrecting the judo club. Ran marathons. Physics Research. 1 finance internship at a bank in Wall Street. Continued to mainly coach Judo because I had Achilles surgery before matriculating to college. I'm now back at 100%, and have notes from 3 different doctors for proof.
CFA/Misc.
"Passed" CFA with ROTC instructors at my college. For some reason, the CFA forms haven't been emailed to them yet. CAR/HS transcripts will be sent as soon as my counselors get them. I have reached out to all my potential SOE professors (including 1 noble prize recipient), and they've all agreed to do so. I applied for nominations in my current college district which is supposedly pretty competitive.
Where I lack:
No leadership in high school. Not a lot of "varsity" sports. Possible security concern because parents are still Japanese citizens. Low College GPA.
Thank you in advance!!!!