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Actually, I do know what I am talking about...I may have done this a time or two. The reality is that both academies wrote to me rising senior and told him what they needed to see before they would open the portal and accept him as a candidate...So indeed mediocre performance in January of the Junior Year--when applying for the summer programs can negatively impact the entry into candidacy. Of course, a killer semester, awesome SAT scores and finishing Eagle Scout--and a rigorous senior year schedule quickly reverse all of that. But the risk was real. I think if someone is borderline, he or she should not apply to SLE.