Stats From Accepted Cadets

RandomCadet

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Reply with your stats in the following format:

ClassYear/State/Sat/Act/GPA/ Varsity or Not/ School Extra-Curriculars/
ex:
2023/NY/1350/33/3.91/Varsity/ STUCO/ Band

Disclaimer! By no means will this accurately predict your chances. This only will help you compare yourself to admitted cadets.
 
Or, for greater accuracy, you can simply look up any SA’s latest class profile, which will show mid 50% for SAT/ACT, as well as % who played varsity sports and did other key extracurriculars. They won’t list GPA, but that’s because GPA is largely meaningless when it comes to SA admissions.

@RandomCadet, not trying to discourage you, but there may be a better way. Also, have you used the search function, because this may exist already. I know it does for USNA.
 
I understand the desire to use quantitative analysis but acceptance is an art as much as a science. Your stats might be great in one Congressional district and win the slate but not even qualify for a nomination in another district. Likewise your model doesn’t include race or sex which among other things are used to round out classes. If USMA needs another round peg to meet their round peg goal and you are a square peg they may dip past your stats to a round peg.
As stated above the averages are probably the best comparisons.
 
I think this is a great idea, because the class profile's SAT includes Preps and Recruited athletes. I think this thread could be extremely helpful if those who posted their stats whether they were a prep/recruited athlete.
 
I would have to agree with @MidCakePa here. This really won’t do any good for candidates, at least it won’t do better than the posted stats on the West Point website. You should be shooting for those goals and higher to make yourself as competitive as possible. Quite frankly, there are waaaay too many extraneous factors to be considered, including but not limited to Congressional district, recruitment status, race, gender, etc. Too many example of a seemingly perfect candidate on paper not receiving a nomination from their district when a candidate with lesser stats from another receives two.

In my opinion this thread would only serve to make candidates unnecessarily nervous and concerned with the stats of others when they only need to be concerned with bettering themselves as a candidate and doing well in school, sports, exams, etc. If you live in New York, for example, seeing Jimmy’s SAT score from rural Alabama is not going to help you. From someone who just finished this process and was blessed enough to reach the light at that end of the tunnel, just focus on you. Really. In the end, you can only control what you can control. The rest is out of your hands anyways and spending hours obsessing over numbers and stats and extracurriculars is wasteful. Spend those hours studying for your SAT or ACT. You’ll thank yourself later.

Note I’m only an appointed candidate and my only experience is the admissions process.
 
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