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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree that this is apples and oranges. Service academies are like college applications plus a fitness tests plus a hardcore medical "test" plus a nomination.

So many kids get medically disqualified.  PPs with a kid with a Ivy-worthy stats, look at your kid...is he colorblind? Ever have asthma? Eczema? Therapy? Anxiety or Depression in her past?  Disqualified...[/quote]

You get disqualified for eczema?[/quote]
Automatic DQ.

You have to think of it this way...you're in some place, say a jungle, hacking a trail, and have an eczema flare that is so bad that you have to be sent home.  It's bad enough if you are an enlisted person, but the service academies are training the leaders.  So now you, the leader of all these soldiers, are being sent home...who is going to replace you?

So they are really hard-core on medical.

And any mental stuff...forget it.  They do not want anyone cracking under pressure.  It's not "I have to take an exam" pressure, it could be "I need to get my team out of here alive" pressure.  It can't be, "We are in a fire-fight, where is my Zoloft"

(I have thought about this a lot because I've got one DC who is applying and another DC who couldn't get past square 1. But that DC is doing well in a T10)

So, for my DC who is applying to service academies:  she took the SAT her sophomore year and has a 1530.  She's straight A in the most rigorous classes (in 3 years, has one A- only).  Incredible athlete.

Again, it's apples and oranges.  If she was focused on civilian colleges, she'd probably re-take the SAT for a superscore.  However, even with a superscore, I doubt she could get into an Ivy, ----not because of her stats, but because her school has so many legacy kids, she'd be shut out as she has no hooks.  Her counselor even told her that with respect to one Ivy, it would be a longshot because of the legacy kids.  Then, some of the civilian colleges under that do yield protection so tend not to take the top tier kids as they assume they will go to the Ivys.  Sometimes I feel like many DCUM parents don't see the "politics" and just focus on GPA and SAT/ACT as if it's a ticket, but it's not, it depends on the high school they are at and their competition within their high school class, and the historic track record of that high school with particular colleges.[/quote]

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