<p>There are minimum requirements to attend the SA. If you meet these requirements, you are eligible to attend. That means that in theory, a person with a 1600 SAT is no different than a person with a 1400 SAT. The key to any admission is being qualified, getting the nomination, followed by the appointment. There will be people attending who had a lower GPA or a lower SAT or fewer varsity letters, or fewer ECs, but they are qualified and meet the minimum standards. That is the bottom line. It is objective, but this is the system and it has worked well. Your entire career in the military will be based on an objective evaluation of your performance, via Fitness Reports. These objective reports are submitted by your Commanding Officer. Your selection to various service schools, assignments and promotions will be based on these evaluations. Everyone will have a different set of these evaluations written by different people which will be further reviewed by selection boards who will make the determinations of who is to attend an advance school, be selected for a Department Head, XO or CO tour, and who will be promoted. It is all objective, but it is fair. Will there be requirements to mirror the whole Navy? Yes. Is it necessary? Yes. This is the Navy you are choosing to be a part of, and it is the best Navy in the world.</p>