Airforce acadamy qestion ? relly need 2 know?

Question

i heard that more then 10000 ppl apply each year only 1000 make it from those 10000 how many gonna b loosers that dont even get a's n b's like how many would automaticly drop off and if i will get all A's and B's can do all physical stuff can i apply at age of 18 or i have to go to college first ?

Answer 1

I am a service academy graduate myself (but not the Air Force Academy), however, I am an Air Force officer now.

Academies are like universities, you do not have to go to college first, however, some people do enter academies with college experience. You do have to have very good grades, have high SAT/ACT scores, play sports, be an upstanding citizen in your community, etc. They look at the whole person but they have minimums for each aspect of the whole person and you have to make all of those minimal requirements. As far as how many people apply and are accepted vs. not accepted - that depends purely on the year that you apply. Some years have a lot more people interested in attending service academies than other years. Whatever happens, however, academies do not accept slackers!

The entrance process is two-fold.

1. You need a congressional nomination. You can get this from your senator or congressmen. A very select few people are qualified to receive nominations from governors, the Vice President, and the President, however, most people can only receive them from senators or congressmen.

2. You need an appointment to the academy itself. The politicians decide who they will nominate and the academy decides who gets the appointment. However, the academy cannot appoint somebody who does not have a nomination to their academy. If you apply for an appointment to an academy without a nomination, then they will hold your application aside while they wait for you to be nominated. As such, you can apply for both the nomination and the appointment at the same time.

The congressional nomination process can be quite competitive. Each politician is only allowed to hand out a limited number of nominations per year. You are only allowed to receive a congressional nomination from a congressman or senator FROM YOUR congressional district. You cannot send off an application for a nomination from a congressman or senator in a different state or district, they are not allowed to nominate you and there are very strict regulations and protocol governing the nomination process. You will be required to go to a board interview for the nomination. You will be interviewed by a panel of several people who will review your application and ask you questions. They are actually the ones that decide who gets the nomination and who doesn't. If you make it to this step, wear a suit and tie and be extremely polite, curtious, and honest with your interviewers (you should be that way to everybody anyway, these are the types of people academies want to have go to their schools). So with all this in mind, you can usually send off nomination applications to three different people (your two senators and whoever is the congressman of your congressional district). All of your three interviews for these three different people will take place on the same day in the same city and they will schedule you at different times, making it very convenient for you to interview with all three in the same day.

Don't lock yourself into just the Air Force Academy. There are a total of five service academies. When you graduate from a service academy you will have a limited ability to transfer to another service. This is, unless you attend the United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, NY. At Kings Point, you have an unrestricted ability to go active duty or reserve in any branch of the service as well as Army National Guard or Air National Guard. In my last active duty squadron we had two West Pointers, a Naval Academy graduate, several Air Force Academy graduates, and me, a Kings Point graduate. Our sister squadron also had a Coast Guard Academy Graduate. All of these graduates who didn't go to the Air Force Academy had cross-commissioned into the Air Force, and are now Air Force officers.

Also put a lot of consideration into applying for ROTC scholarships. They offer full-ride ROTC scholarships that will pay for all of your schooling, just the same way as it is as a service academy. They also offer partial scholarships, such as the three-year ROTC scholarship where they will pay for your last three years of schooling. Even if you don't receive an ROTC scholarship, you can still join the ROTC program at whatever university you attend. Meanwhile, you can continue applying for the scholarship to get your subsequent years of schooling paid for.

As for me personally, I worked all of my summer breaks in high school except that year between my junior and senior year. That summer I dedicated purely to academy and ROTC applications. It was a full time job in itself. You will need countless letters of recommendation, you will meet with your guidance counselor dozens of times (even while on summer break), and you will need to be very vigilant about getting everything done in a timely manner. Do not wait until the fall of your senior year to do this; you need to do this in the summer between your junior and senior years; this is absolutely non-negotiable. My work paid off, I was offered three different academy appointments and two ROTC scholarships. One of the ROTC scholarship didn't offer to pay all of my schooling but the other one did. I suddenly got letters and phone calls from dozens of extremely presitigious universities offering to compensate me for whatever the one ROTC scholarship didn't cover if I would go to their university. In the end, I was able to choose the academy that I really wanted to go to.

If you have any further questions, feel free to IM me.

Answer 2

you should have VERY good grades, be on a sports team, preferably as a captain and do lots of social stuff like charity and other forms of leadership.

The Air Force Academy and other military academies are college level schools. You US Congressman or Senators will be the people who decide who gets in.

Think of becoming a grown-up boyscout that can physically do most everything while being a leader of men (and women).

Answer 3

1) the Air Force Academy's entrance requirements are here
http://academyadmissions.com/

Answer 4

You really need to know that you really need to work on your spelling and grammar skills before applying.