Do I stand a chance getting into the Academy?

1st; you can only get a nomination from YOUR representative. Which means your voting district. You can't get one from any of the other representatives. You can apply for both senators. Yes; apply for the VP.

Next; There's two types of letters of recommendation. One is the type that your senators or representative want. Each senator and representative have different requirements, so go to their website and find out what kinds of recommendations they want. The second type is for the academy. Those are from your teachers. SPECIFIC TEACHERS. In the application, it will tell you which teachers, and you will provide in the online application your teacher's email addresses. They will be contacted to fill out an online recommendation.
 
For your letters, just a suggestion but you could ask for more letters than you need say ask for 8 when you only need 6 and then select the ones that make you look best. I feel like it is more about what they say than who they are from even though that certainly cant hurt.

ROTC should offer leadership postions, any clubs you do could. Other than that not sure
 
Letters should come from people that know you well. People that can talk about your leadership characteristics, your character, your drive, that know you are responsible, etc.
 
Unless things have changed in the last year, when my son went through this process for the AFA a year ago, he had to have 3 specific teachers (I believe math, a science, and a lang arts from jr. or sr. year) go online and fill out a recommendation form. I thought it wasn't really a "letter" per se but an evaluation in certain categories--the teacher would check off which applied to my son. But then the AFA offered candidates a chance (optional but highly recommeded) to send in 3 letters of recommendations from other adults that knew the candidate well--that is where my son picked his scout leader, a former boss, etc. Those were typical letters--reflecting my son's strengths, leadership abilities, etc.
 
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Unless things have changed in the last year, when my son went through this process for the AFA a year ago, he had to have 3 specific teachers (I believe math, a science, and a lang arts from jr. or sr. year) go online and fill out a recommendation form. I thought it wasn't really a "letter" per se but an evaluation in certain categories--the teacher would check off which applied to my son. But then the AFA offered candidates a chance (optional but highly recommeded) to send in 3 letters of recommendations from other adults that knew the candidate well--that is where my son picked his scout leader, a former boss, etc. Those were typical letters--reflecting my son's strengths, leadership abilities, etc.
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As a teacher who filled out the teacher recommendation this year for one of my students, it is indeed a short form where you check off and rate the candidate in different categories. It also allows for some personal accounts at the end. I believe my son (class of 2015) needed recomendations from Math, English, and a third unspecified subject teacher from his 11th or 12th grade year. He also submitted 3 letters (not from those 3 teachers) to be added to his file. However, I'm not sure they are doing that this year.

Best wishes! :thumb:
 
Same this year!

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As a teacher who filled out the teacher recommendation this year for one of my students, it is indeed a short form where you check off and rate the candidate in different categories. It also allows for some personal accounts at the end. I believe my son (class of 2015) needed recomendations from Math, English, and a third unspecified subject teacher from his 11th or 12th grade year. He also submitted 3 letters (not from those 3 teachers) to be added to his file. However, I'm not sure they are doing that this year.

Best wishes! :thumb:
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Yes, it was the same this year for Class of 2016 applicants. Interesting to know what the teacher recommendation form is like. Thanks.

Then there are letters required for the noms. We sent two from teachers (one was also the head football coach), and one from the counselor. These requirements may depend on the MOC.
 
Re: MOC letters of recommendations. They do have their own requirements--for example, when my son was applying, one senator required a letter written by a peer in addition to 2 others from adults. But my son asked the adults who were writing letters of recommendation (Boy Scout leader, school counselor, and a previous boss) to each write a letter, but address it separately to each senator and MOC. Its easy these days with word processing to just take out one address and Dear "____" and put another in--and it made it easy in that my son didn't have to ask 9 different people to write letters. But for all candidates applying in the future, be sure to check your MOC's requirements regarding letters of rec before asking anyone to write one to make sure you meet the requirements. My son also gave a little guidance to the people writing his letters--don't just list activities, please talk about my leadership abilities, my character, dependability, etc. Some of these people hadn't written many letters like this before and were glad to know where to begin.
 
He also submitted 3 letters (not from those 3 teachers) to be added to his file. However, I'm not sure they are doing that this year.
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My son's status page advised that, while not mandatory, they were highly recommended. He went to our Rector, his Coach, and a former Command Chief who's a good friend of ours for letters and sent them along. I though it was probably a good idea (couldn't hurt) They also counted for the VP Nom application as well...

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Romad said:
My son's status page advised that, while not mandatory, they were highly recommended. He went to our Rector, his Coach, and a former Command Chief who's a good friend of ours for letters and sent them along. I though it was probably a good idea (couldn't hurt) They also counted for the VP Nom application as well...

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I think optional and recommended are code words for "mandatory if you actually want this".
 
I've starte filling out my USAFA application, and I have a few questions.
1: They ask me if I have/am attending college. I will be, but I am currently not. Should I answer no?
2: SAT Scores: I want to submit the application ASAP so I can work on congressional nominations. I won't take the SAT in time, so should I just give my current best scores, and when I get new scores submit them? My current superscores are 620 reading, 660 math, and a low 520 writing. It says the writing section is optional. Will it deteriorate from my application if I omit it?
 
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