This may surprise you, but if you can fulfill the USNA listed requirements, they’ll probably take you. It’s not like so many of the other Ivy Leagues where you have to be a magician to be accepted (think Harvard). Here, most candidates drop out of competition for the 1,000 slots when they don’t fulfill the very long list of requirements. Look at the statistics:
If you can fulfill the requirements, you are probably going to get it
This is not to say getting the official nomination, and becoming scholastically/medically/physically qualified is easy. Of course not. USNA doesn’t do ‘easy’. But, there is a way, with steps to get you there.
Check back tomorrow. I’ll start showing you how to chip away at this list.
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