Hello, I submitted some of my placement tests late due to just simply not being well informed. Could anyone with experience tell me to what level they will affect me at West Point? Like will they not accepted it because I submitted it late?

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Good afternoon, I’m (18F) going to attend USMA this summer as part of class of 2028. I am super excited because it is my dream school! I have a pretty great idea of what life will be like there because I went to programs like SLE and visited quite a few times. I absolutely adored the people that I met there as well as the lifestyle the Army at West Point promotes. However, I won’t know exactly what life is like over at USMA until I am there, so just to soothe my curiosity/anxiety about transitioning to college I would like to ask a few questions.

1. What is the social aspect of life at West Point like? By this I mean mostly friendships and maybe romantic relationships, as a strong community is important to me. Would you say that the environment is more divisive because of competition or more of team?

2. Specifically to all females from USMA (anyone can give their gain if salt) what would you say is the most difficult part of being a women and what is the easiest part?

3. How difficult are the academics? I come from a very toxically academic high school where the pressure was unreal, so if you could just speak on your experiences with the academic pressure at West Point, that would be great.

P.S. I hope you guys could help me out, I know the questions are quite vague, so really any input would be amazing. Thank you so much!

For the cadets at West Point, what's it like for your classmates to be your raters? Does this create drama/politics, or does everyone just rate well if the person they're rating wasn't particularly disrespectful? I'm also curious to know how much general drama exists there, I know it should be much less than hs but I'm sick of the drama in hs lol

My family and I are thinking about attending a football game at Michie Stadium this season.

We would like to sit preferably in section 8-17 but were wondering what seats number start under the upper deck just in case there is inclement weather since we are bringing small kids.

It was hard to find a good seating chart depicting it online. Only shows the seating but not what seats are under the upper deck.

Thank you!

I have completed the PDF for "Service-Connected Nomination Request", but I can't seem to find any info as to how I submit this...

My best guess/instinct is to print it out and mail it, but with everything else being digital, I just want to confirm.

I recently became interested in going here. At first when I read the 10% acceptance rate, I was thinking it wouldn't be that hard to get into West Point with my grades and pre-sat score. My class rank is around 7%. I thought that all I'd really have to do is take the official SAT, and work on my pushup and throwing skills. However, I did more research and am now wondering, are most students that apply to this good students making it harder to get in than just being better than average?

A family member is currently at WP. They call me often crying. They are super stressed about academics and simply quality of life. They are struggling with acne and feeling low lately and feel like they can’t get any sort of treatment for acne/etc. they’ve been asking me if they should outprocess and come home but both staying at WP and leaving are hard choices. I don’t know what advice to give them, please help. I am in Army ROTC and contracted but I still don’t have any experience close to that of WP and they’re currently really struggling and miss me and want to come home for they feel they can’t make it there. Does it get better after Freshman year? Does anyone have advice on the situation?

Thanks.

EDIT: she made it through first semester and decided not to leave after much advice. Thanks.

im going to visit west point this coming monday and I saw that they asked for me to wear "civilian casual" or something like that. does wearing khakis and a nice looking t-shirt work? or should i wear a button down?

Hello everyone,

I’m currently applying, and have the following. I haven’t gotten any correspondence, so I was getting a little worried. What do you think my chances are?

GPA: 4.0 unweighted, 4.5 weighted, have gotten multiple 5’s on various AP exams

SAT: 1330 (I know it’s not the best, but what are your thoughts?)

Sports: Varsity Competition Shooting

Extracurriculars:

Pilot - graduated Air Force Flight Academy Scholarship program

I work part time for Lockheed Martin lol

Captain of a nationally 2nd ranked STEM competition team

Lots of leadership in JROTC

Lots of community service hours

Search and Rescue & Flight First Sergeant in CAP (Civil Air Patrol)

I also have some notable awards

DODMERB: All qualified

CFA: haven’t taken yet, but I’ll get decent scores

I have everything in the App finished except nominations and CFA of course

What do you guys think? Again, I haven’t heard anything from WP yet so I was getting worried.

what do i bring? what kind of bag do i bring? what clothes to bring? ahhh this is a lot thank you for taking the time to answer my question!

I’m a freshman in high school. I’ve been dreaming to go to the USMA as long as I know, as I come from a military family of over 4 generations. I’m a full year athlete, in 3 clubs, and have gotten all A’s in my past school years. What can I do from now until I begin the admissions process to assure my acceptance?

I'm 17, in the Army National Guard, and in contact with the soldier's admissions officer at Westpoint. He'd like me to have most of the things in the candidate's portal filled out by tomorrow, and I'm questioning whether or not I have to go to Westpoint if I get accepted or if it's just an offer that's put on the table for me. I think this is an Early decision thing which is why I'm concerned, as I hear early decision plans are binding (an article from College Board titled "Early Decision and Early Action".

Any other useful insights would be greatly appreciated, thank you

its not that huge, i know, but whats the difference between this and an LOA? does one give you better chance than others? i’m kinda bummed out that i didn’t get an LOA because of the CFA not being reviewed faster but yay I guess!

hi i have my field force interview and i’m not really sure what to wear. my friend told me to just wear khakis and a nice shirt/shoes.

also is there anything i should bring? like documents and others.

thanks.

My examination provider does not allow me to schedule my examination over the phone. Instead I must appear in person to take the examination the day of. What do I input as the "examination date"?

i do taekwondo outside of school and i’m basically at the top of my club. i teach/lead 90% of classes and i am also the captain of the demonstration team.

but i’m not sure if i can put “captain” for the athletic activities for the CAR since its not a school activity.

what should i do? thanks.

I'm bipolar so I can't attend a service academy however I was hoping to be a military analyst for the Defense Intelligence Agency someday and was hoping to read through the strategy curriculum at West Point for fun/preparation.

I’m a rising senior and my gpa is 3.82/4.00 and 4.56. act: 32 (will retake) (I’m pretty sure my gpa got screwed over since i got better grades this year, i had a 3.87 last year with a-, b. this year i have b+ and a). I am in varsity ski and have been doing honors orchestra. I have gotten the presidents award 2 times (gold) and i take all honors/ap classes. outside of school i do taekwondo (have a 3rd degree black belt) and i also speak mandarin fluently

I just took both my dodmerb exams and i took the cfa: (didn’t score yet) Basketball Throw: 17yds, 20yds, 18yds Cadence Pull-Up: 17 Shuttle Run 8.23 8.71 Modified Sit Ups 63 Push-Ups 71 1-Mile Run 7:41

I haven’t received my LOA yet but my ffr has scheduled me sometimes within next few weeks for a interview.

Please let me know what you think, feedback is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Is it ok to lie on the dodmets survey, for instance a mental condition like depression. I understand for sugeries it is probaly best not to but if you were given counseling for depression or suicidal thoughts as far back as middle school or even earlier should you even declare it. Also if you were given prescription medication but never took it, should you mark yes under the question about prescribtion meds. Thank you

Just wondering how many people from each congressional district get accepted each year. One of my friends who got in 2 years ago said only 1 does.

Yes im only going to be a freshman in a week, but I am just curious to see what classes I should take next year. Honors? AP classes?

West Point Alumni’s what did you do throughout high school to get in? What clubs[position], sports, leadership roles, and service did you do? Any advice? What classes do you recommend?

Thank you

My CFA is this Sunday, and I’m extra nervous. Hopefully this is the last CFA I take. That being said, the question:

What should I eat before the CFA? I heard stories of candidates eating a full meal…others don’t eat at all… does a banana and yogurt work? I know you dont want to be too full before the test… please help!!

I'm going into senior year and have all parts needed for my nomination im just unsure of how to submit the packet or where to tell those who wrote my letters of reccomendation to submit it. Is it an email with links or a physical folder with all of them, i know those are probaly stupid suggestions but again i don't know. If y'all could tell me exactly how you did yours it would be much appreciated. Thank you for your help.

I thought it said something about starting FEB 2nd, but the WP Application is open right now. I don’t know if WP would keep the Cadet Questionnaire open before its start-date, so I don’t want to look stupid to admissions and apply before I’m suppose to apply.

Has anyone gotten a letter of assurance for class of 28? If so what are your stats / when did you receive it?

Hi, I'm a 16F rising junior and considering applying. I have pretty good stats overall academically (3.9 GPA, and 1500 SAT gonna retake for 1550+) and multiple leadership positions/awards/volunteer hours in school, but one thing I'm worried about is my sports involvement. I didn't play a sport in hs for the last two years, and am wondering if it will hurt my application. The reason is because I have been doing taekwondo for the last 7+ years, on the demo team, assistant instructor duties, will be testing for 3rd dan next year. Its always been a big time commitment along with my other extracurriculars. I know being on varsity for a school sport is really good for admissions, so I'm wondering if I should just join a sport this year even if I have to juggle everything or if my TKD involvement will be enough. Thanks in advance!

Edit: typo