Service Academies and the Proper Way to Analyze a Student

Recently, when I was filling out my application to United States Air Force Academy, I came across a section in the application that requested for my SAT scores. Next to it, was a graph determining how much consideration was given to the standardized test. It read twenty percent, and at that moment, I felt my heart rapidly pound as if it was the end of the world because I knew that a 1090 on the SAT’s was not up to par to the Air Force standard of 1250. I began to think to myself if the admissions committee could only take into consideration the tremendous change I made as a student-athlete from my freshman year to my senior year, and my progress as a college student. I went from being an average football player with a 2.3 GPA during the first half of my high school career to being one of the most highly recruited quarterbacks in the Tri-State region with a 3.7 GPA. As a college student, I currently have a 3.88 GPA. I believe that a test should not determine the collegiate potential of an individual. College students aspiring to attend a service academy should not be judged by their scores on the SAT in determining the

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