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[quote=Anonymous]It is completely different than applying to a civilian school, including the nature of the competitiveness. To get a nomination, which is required for 4/5 of the academies, you only compete against other applicants in your same congressional district (U.S. Representative nomination) or state (senatorial nomination).  If you get a nomination, you're competing against the others on the same nomination slate -- again, from same district or state. Each nominating source has 5 spots at an academy at any one time over the course of 4 years, I believe. So, you have to at the top of that slate bc the congressperson/senator has only 1-2 open slots at an academy per year. If you don't make it off that slate, you can still be placed into a national pool and selected from there.

The academies are not test optional and, I believe, don not allow esting accommodations such as extra time.

There are also many medical conditions that will DQ an applicant, including medications. Therefire, medicated ADHD, anxiety, asthma, are no-gos, for example.

Then, you have to be willing to serve active duty in the military for 5 years for all but the Merchant Marine Academy.

Once you whittle away at all these factors, including passing the physical fitness test, the pool of fully qualified applicants becomes smaller. [/quote]

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