While the basic framework of the selection process remains the same year to year (essay, physical tests, possibly an interview), the details of tryouts for the C/O 2013 was an anomaly (because of a Jump accident earlier that summer that was still under investigation).
Basically, if you earn your jump wings over the summer after freshman year, you can choose to show up for WoG tryouts, which are set during one of the first few days of August. If you choose to go, you get on an o'dark thirty bus to the airfield. Then the fun starts. For tryouts last year, we DEFINITELY did not sit in a hangar and wait for interviews. More like physical anihilation for an hour, THEN PT tests, then random *fun* activities like FOD walking the entire airfield, picking pebbles off the hangar floor, etc for the rest of the day while HOPING for an interview
A bunch of people withdrew their candidacy (quit) on the spot during the first PT session and were bussed back up to the cadet area. It was that rough. Everyone who completed tryouts were bussed back up around 5pm.
You could definitely tell who had tried out for about the next week...