USAFA Preparatory School offer!

hunterjumper67 said:
Congratulations!!! I have a DD who just graduated USAFA and a DD hopeful for 2021. My 2nd Lt DD was a preppie and it was the best thing that ever happened. She loved her fellow preppies and they became best of friends. I am a little confused how the prep school appointments are coming out before the USAFA appointments though. Did this change? When DD applied to USAFA, the USAFA appointments came out first and once USAFA made their picks the rest of the applications were reviewed by the Prep school. My hopeful DD would love either. Is it still that you can be overqualified for the prep school? Zandercott are you an athletic recruit or prior service? Just trying to see if there are new ways to get into the prep school.
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Not a recruited athlete and not prior service. I went to FVE in Sept. Not sure why the offer came so early but I'm happy and grateful it did!
 
Zandercott said:
Not a recruited athlete and not prior service. I went to FVE in Sept. Not sure why the offer came so early but I'm happy and grateful it did!
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It may be because you are 17. My son had a classmate in HS that went to West Point Prep, they told him they wanted him to age another year so he would not be 17 at West Point. He was also a recruited athlete, so who really knows.
 
Being 17 at the academy is not uncommon. Many cadets don't turn 18 until BCT is over; or even going into Sept-Nov. The youngest age to enter military service; either enlisted, academy, or JrROTC is 17 years old. They WILL NOT send you to the prep school because you are only 17 years old on entrance day.

If you get an offer to the prep-school, instead of a direct appointment, it simply means that overall your application was great; but there was one or more areas that probably needed some improvement. Usually academics. E.g. 3.7 gpa, but every class was a 4.0, except for math, which every year you got a "C". Or maybe you had a 3.9-4.0 gpa, but every ACT test you took, could only get to around 24. Or maybe you were one of these brainiacs that had all the academics, but because of family or community limitations, you never had a chance to get ANY leadership experience. There's a lot of reasons to get a prep-school slot instead of a direct appointment. And if any of the above; and plenty of other reasons exist; plus you happen to be a recruited athlete; then that's a "BONUS". It's like having a "Red-Shirt" year. Not that that is an objective, simply a bonus. I.e. An applicant with an exceptional application, with 3.9+ gpa; 29+ ACT, numerous sports, leadership, clubs, community, bla bla bla..... is not going to get a prep-school slot because they are being recruited for athletics. They'll get a direct appointment. MOST Recruited athletes get direct appointment.

The point is, there are many reasons a person would get a prep-school offer instead of a direct appointment. Being 17 years old is NOT one of them.
 
None of the above apply to me, so who knows, but I'm happy to be a preppie. I just barely turned 17.
 
Looking forward to meeting you too jlove12 (tried to send you a PM but you don't have enough posts). See you in July! I can't wait!
 
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