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

ir collegiate potential; instead, students should be judged by their performance in at least three semesters of college.

As a result of the good grades I have been earning so far at the college level, I believe I have shown some signs that the SAT is not a reliable source in determining the potential of a college student. My cousin Arda Kostem has already proven the SAT’s to be bad source in determining his success in college through his outstanding performance in his sophomore writing class, in which it was a class that he was predicted to possibly failed in. Even an SAT expert, Colonel Grace Jones, agrees with the notion that the SAT’s can not determine the potential of a student in college; instead, a student will only succeed in college if the individual is willing to work hard and persevere through the intricacies of college life.

I believe I have made an effective argument. I was able to clearly state my claim, provided examples and even a testimony from an expert in my argument to back up my thesis, and was able to develop several underlying assumptions on which my argument was based. The service academies need to follow the footsteps of the California public universities and do away with the SAT’s in determining the collegiate potential of a student. The admissions committees at the service academies need to realize that many students’ SAT scores do not reflect how hard many of the

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