Sounded like the young lady has good grades. Several guys from my very small high school won acceptance to one or the other military academy in my four years there, so it can’t be that hard. Also, I was asked to attend while an enlisted man in the Army but turned it down because I would’ve had to attend a year of preparatory school before hand and at the time didn’t want to tie myself down for 10 years. Big mistake, but what can you do?
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Each academy accepts about 1200 each year.
Navy gets over 17,000 qualified applicants, AF 13,000+, and West Point just shy of 13,000.
SATs need to be close to 650 across the board, and GPAs 3.5+ to be competitive.
All 3 are among the top 50 colleges for science and engineering.
If she’s in that group she should consider an academy. If not, then ROTC is a solid route.