- Hey everyone
I’m currently about to be a sophomore in high school and I want to go to the academy badly! I’ve done research for a while and i’m really passionate about it. I always planned on becoming an Airline Pilot but came across the academy a bit ago and cannot stop thinking about it. It just feels like a better fit, the lifestyle in the Air Force is one I like way better, and the academy seems like it has so many opportunities and a chance to meet people as passionate about this as me.
I don’t really know how well I am academically, I recently got thrown off by an awful start to high school last year, with the virus and spent part of it online and part in person and things from the year before that got cut short were coming at me like test that were canceled and they gave us only a day notice that we’d be taking them and I had to miss out on some classes which I fell behind in, more behind than I already was I should say, from just switching to in person and got switched in and out many classes and ultimately it was just a crazy year. Ended up with about 3 B’s, 1 in the first semester on a random art class I got thrown into and I tried my best but that wasn’t really my thing and then second semester I got two B’s one in math which I fell behind on and one in a writing class that again I was thrown into at random. I did my best but really prioritized doing well in my Ap class which I got Straight A’s but failed the exam.
Currently my unweighted gpa is at 3.81 and my weighted GPA is at a 4.4
As for my Extracurricular stuff I haven’t done much in high school as my first year like I said was a mess and it was impossible to do anything, prior to all this I was mostly a Straight A student, did 3 years of Orchestra in middle school and played basketball those 3 years as well but that was out of school. Leadership positions to be honest don’t really have any that I could think of but I did about 40 volunteer hours this summer.
Well, look I really want to go to the academy i just don’t know, I feel I might be lacking confidence after my performance last year and I really don’t know the right path to take. i’m scared of messing anything up and not being able to go, I need basically perfect straight A’s the next 3 years in order to possibly get my GPA up to about a 3.92 Maybe i’m stressing too much but i’ve seen people that get in and it’s like i’m behind they’ve done so much to get there and i’ve done nothing I really don’t know where to begin I just want to make sure I don’t take the wrong path and not have a chance.
School will begin in a few weeks and im just looking for anyone that can help me. Some help in knowing what classes are right to be taking, what extracurricular stuff I should be doing, and how to get leadership positions. I’ve been looking into CAP, Boy Scouts, maybe some sport in school but idk i’m not really in shape and i don’t even take any sort of PE classes during the school day because then i get all hot and sweaty and it’s hit or miss on whether the AC will be working that day at my school since for some reason it’s always broken and then its really hard for me to do anything in whatever class follows, i don’t really know if i need to take a pe class for usafa to see me as athletic or if finding things outside of school will be fine and to top it all off i’m a pretty skinny kid but I’m willing to work on whatever I need and whatever I can do no matter what it takes to get where I need to be to have a good chance. Maybe I just look down on myself too much and maybe I do have a shot and i’m doing well for where I am but I just don’t know, which is why i’m reaching out for anyone that can help l, it would mean everything.
Sorry for the long post i’ve barely slept this whole week just stressing over all this and had to let it out and need help, i feel like i’m all on my own but maybe this forum can help.
If there’s anyone out there that can help or maybe even went to the academy it would be incredible if i could find that someone and hopefully someone that can try and help me throughout the way. Usafa isn’t just something I want to do it’s something I feel I need to and i’m going to apply and apply until i’m too old to do so but by then I hope that I might have found a way to make it.
Again sorry for such a long post but hopefully it pays off with someone that can be of some help and thanks to anyone that even read this.
Have a great day.
I’m currently about to be a sophomore in high school and I want to go to the academy badly! I’ve done research for a while and i’m really passionate about it. I always planned on becoming an Airline Pilot but came across the academy a bit ago and cannot stop thinking about it. It just feels like a better fit, the lifestyle in the Air Force is one I like way better, and the academy seems like it has so many opportunities and a chance to meet people as passionate about this as me.
I don’t really know how well I am academically, I recently got thrown off by an awful start to high school last year, with the virus and spent part of it online and part in person and things from the year before that got cut short were coming at me like test that were canceled and they gave us only a day notice that we’d be taking them and I had to miss out on some classes which I fell behind in, more behind than I already was I should say, from just switching to in person and got switched in and out many classes and ultimately it was just a crazy year. Ended up with about 3 B’s, 1 in the first semester on a random art class I got thrown into and I tried my best but that wasn’t really my thing and then second semester I got two B’s one in math which I fell behind on and one in a writing class that again I was thrown into at random. I did my best but really prioritized doing well in my Ap class which I got Straight A’s but failed the exam.
Currently my unweighted gpa is at 3.81 and my weighted GPA is at a 4.4
As for my Extracurricular stuff I haven’t done much in high school as my first year like I said was a mess and it was impossible to do anything, prior to all this I was mostly a Straight A student, did 3 years of Orchestra in middle school and played basketball those 3 years as well but that was out of school. Leadership positions to be honest don’t really have any that I could think of but I did about 40 volunteer hours this summer.
Well, look I really want to go to the academy i just don’t know, I feel I might be lacking confidence after my performance last year and I really don’t know the right path to take. i’m scared of messing anything up and not being able to go, I need basically perfect straight A’s the next 3 years in order to possibly get my GPA up to about a 3.92 Maybe i’m stressing too much but i’ve seen people that get in and it’s like i’m behind they’ve done so much to get there and i’ve done nothing I really don’t know where to begin I just want to make sure I don’t take the wrong path and not have a chance.
School will begin in a few weeks and im just looking for anyone that can help me. Some help in knowing what classes are right to be taking, what extracurricular stuff I should be doing, and how to get leadership positions. I’ve been looking into CAP, Boy Scouts, maybe some sport in school but idk i’m not really in shape and i don’t even take any sort of PE classes during the school day because then i get all hot and sweaty and it’s hit or miss on whether the AC will be working that day at my school since for some reason it’s always broken and then its really hard for me to do anything in whatever class follows, i don’t really know if i need to take a pe class for usafa to see me as athletic or if finding things outside of school will be fine and to top it all off i’m a pretty skinny kid but I’m willing to work on whatever I need and whatever I can do no matter what it takes to get where I need to be to have a good chance. Maybe I just look down on myself too much and maybe I do have a shot and i’m doing well for where I am but I just don’t know, which is why i’m reaching out for anyone that can help l, it would mean everything.
Sorry for the long post i’ve barely slept this whole week just stressing over all this and had to let it out and need help, i feel like i’m all on my own but maybe this forum can help.
If there’s anyone out there that can help or maybe even went to the academy it would be incredible if i could find that someone and hopefully someone that can try and help me throughout the way. Usafa isn’t just something I want to do it’s something I feel I need to and i’m going to apply and apply until i’m too old to do so but by then I hope that I might have found a way to make it.
Again sorry for such a long post but hopefully it pays off with someone that can be of some help and thanks to anyone that even read this.
Have a great day.