What are my chances?

[coopertrooper]

I am currently a junior
I’m a white male from the upper middle class. My grandfather served in the army. I lack sports but hope I can make up in other areas.

I hope to major in international relations or Classics

GPA: 3.9/4.2 unweighted/weighted
SAT: 1420
Classes: all honors/AP
APs: European history, US history, Biology
APs for senior year: Psychology, Latin, Literature, Calc AB
ECs:
-I work at a carpet cleaning business
-I do speech and debate (congress and extemp speaking on global affairs)
-I am an officer in the school’s Latin club
-I am in NHS and tutor underclassmen
-I coach a 6th grade basketball team
-I run a website dedicated to analytical pieces on global events such as the Syrian Civil War and North Korea. I write articles and have a group of users submit their work to me and I edit it and publish it onto the site. Not going to say the site for anonymity
-After freshman year I skipped a math class over the summer and tested into honors. I did the same with Latin summer after sophomore year.
-I am an officer in my school’s Mock Trial team
-I run and work out several days of the week.
-I did an informal basketball league freshman and sophomore year.
-I do stage crew tech support for the school play and train freshman to understand the equipment so they can take over when I’m gone.

Any feedback would be appreciated

 

[Skipper07]

No chance if you don’t apply and some chance if you do. No one here can accurately tell you what your chances are.

I reccomend searching chance me threads and reading those to get an idea.

 

[TheZooElCid]

Welcome aboard - let me be the first ( dang it Skipper07 cut me off at the pass) to say nobody knows ... definitely maybe?

Why no sports? I suspect that's going to be a huge hurdle. Is it too late to jump into track or baseball?

Those with more knowledge will be along shortly I suspect.

 

[kinnem]

+1 to TheZooElCid. If you can get some organized sports in, that would strengthen your application; even track or cross country would be good and could also help you prepare for the academy.

 

[AJ16]

If you for sure want to go and are going to apply, I recommend applying to go to Boys or Girls State. I also agree with what the others said about trying to get into a sport.

 

[coopertrooper]

+1 to TheZooElCid. If you can get some organized sports in, that would strengthen your application; even track or cross country would be good and could also help you prepare for the academy.

I don’t think I can get a varsity letter in at this point but would it matter if the sport was inside or outside of school?

 

[kinnem]

Well, could you participate in a varsity sport regardless of whether you can get a letter? The letter is nice but so is showing athletic participation. My own opinion is inside school is better unless your part of a competitive outside travel team. Again, just my 2 cents. YMMV.

 

[TheZooElCid]

+1 to TheZooElCid. If you can get some organized sports in, that would strengthen your application; even track or cross country would be good and could also help you prepare for the academy.

I don’t think I can get a varsity letter in at this point but would it matter if the sport was inside or outside of school?

So when they ask why you didn't participate in a sport what is your answer going to be?

If you're not going to do a sport I'd suggest you absolutely MAX the fitness test, I mean destroy that thing ...

 

[Impulsive]

Sports matter....as does leadership in school, student government, NHS Officer, IB Community Board, Captain of a sports team. You GPA is OK and SAT is GOOD. They base your profile on what is called WCS and it is basically 60% academics, 30% leadership, and 10% fitness (they figure if you aren't in top fitness shape now you will be by graduation). You also need a NOM, either MOC or SC and pass the med board.

You will never know if you don't try!

 

[USMA 1994]

Your GPA by itself means very little. Admissions is much more concerned with your class rank, they types of classes you took and how you preformed in relation to your peers. A 3.9 GPA with all AP/Honors classes with a class rank in the top 5% is greatly different than a 3.9 with no AP/Honors and a top 30% ranking. You are really only competing against others from your area and that will be on the same nomination slate. Missing out on sports will make you less competitive than most others.

Remember, the WCS is fairly objective. You accomplish "A" you get this many points. The "soft" type accomplishments help a little but running a website is not viewed the same as gaining a varsity letter in a sport.