<p>Jake, a very similiar situation happened at our high school. There was a student ( a friend of my S) who appeared to be the perfect Academy candidate (AFA in this case), outstanding student, athlete, great stats, National Merit finalist, attended the AFA summer program. Seemed to be perfect and he got flat out rejected. A couple weeks later he got a letter from Air Force offering him an AFROTC scholarship. He had never even applied for a scholarship either because he was so intent on the Academy. He is now a Jr. at a big state u studying aerospace engineering on an AFROTC scholarship and is very happy.</p>