<p>One specific … your CR score is far below the average score for your competitive group. The good news is that could be more critical if it was your math score. But standardized testing weighs heavily in the composition of the whole person score that encompasses many variables. It is the one great leveler … all on the same playing field. Work on that. If you’ve NOT taken the ACT, might give that a shot. It might give you a superior verbal score. btw, USNA does not look at writing or subject tests. ONLY math and CR/verbal. </p>
<p>2 other issues in YOUR control are your performance and your relationship with your junior year math and English teachers. They will be asked to submit references for you. The more thorough, specific, and timely they can be, the better your candidacy process and application will be. You should connect and brief both BEFORE the school year ends, alerting them to the disproportionate importance of THEIR part in this process. It is NOT like those recs they may be asked to write to 95% of other institutions. You might want to arrange a specific time to meet with them BEFORE the school year ends and alerting them to watch their e-mail (and their spam) . Give them a resume, and do NOT assume they will know what you’ve done, been involved in. Get the email where they’d like the request sent to, most likely over the summer. Ask if you can contact them over that time. This can be a real deal maker or breaker for the “average” great white kid in the same pool initially with 20,000 other mostly similarly strong candidates. </p>
<p>Be working daily on your PT. </p>
<p>Can you swim? How well? Do you swim?</p>
<p>Lastly, your athletic stuff is interesting. What are you doing this year?</p>
<p>Did you apply to NASS? Outcome? </p>
<p>What state are you from? Rank and number in your HS class?</p>