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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The kids I know personally were all decent to strong students, but not highest level academically. Similar athletically.[/quote]

My child was a NMF. Many of his friends at his service academy were also NMFs, so yes, many service academy students are highest level academically. 
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I see zero kids in the 2021-and-earlier datasource I use to check the number of national merit finalists going to any of the military academies, which makes me think that either the datasource is making a surprising omission, or, more likely, students are/were not able to collect on scholarships. (NMF is NMSF+ a scholarship. The Academies don't offer their own National Merit scholarships, to my knowledge, but a large number of scholarships are funded by outside sources, so one would think that they'd have shown up at some point, if they were allowed.)

Academy 25/75 percentile sat score
USMA West Point  1200/1430
Naval Academy 1210/1410
Air Force 1230/1440
Coast Guard 1240/1400 (at least 17% do not take tests)
Merchant Marine 1110/1300

With the exception of the Coast Guard, very few people enter the academies without having taken admissions tests, and none of those tests have a "received extra time" asterisk, despite a large number of students who would have been able to trivially get accommodations (have you ever met a fighter pilot?) Compare that with half the students at Virginia Tech or the University of Maryland skipping entrance exams. Even the dumber students at the military Academies are mostly college material, and the top group is quite strong, even without going into the noncognitive aspects that are tied to success, which, for Academy students, are de rigueur.

I would expect this area, because of proximity to the Pentagon and half-a-dozen other major military bases, to require extremely high performance to get in.[/quote]

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