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The service academies have a mission to take kids from all over the country, so there is some variance in GPAs and test scores, but your information on what is needed for an applicant from the D.C. area to be appointed is wrong, or maybe just out of date.

A kid from our area needs to be the "total package."  S/he needs to have very high academic achievement, year round sports participation, and active engagement in leadership roles. A B student with 1200 SATs is highly unlikely to make it unless s/he is a highly accomplished athlete who is being recruited. And if the latter is the case, they will send the kid to a prep school to get ready for the high level of academics they will be confronted with once they get to the academy.

Do you realize every kid at a service academy has at least a minor in engineering, and most have STEM related majors? Have you seen the list of Rhodes and Fulbright scholars the academies have sent off the last several years? Here's a link to a list from West Point alone. The other academies have similar lists.

http://www.usma.edu/excellence/SitePages/Scholarships.aspx

The ultimate goal of a service academy is to graduate leaders. Test scores and GPAs do not always show what kind of a leader a person will be.

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