USNA Admission Board

Can you tell me in detail about the USNA Admission Board?

[Kiran Chandar]

The details about the USNA Admission Board are as follows:

The Admissions Board Process

The USNA Superintendent provides the Admissions Board with specific direction to follow for each incoming class.

The Board meets on each Thursday from October through April. In addition, one or two Early Boards are usually held in August.

Each of the eighteen Board members brief ten student records at the weekly meeting. A student’s record is summarized on a printed sheet called a Cover Sheet which is created by selecting Reports, Admissions Board, Student Evaluation Worksheet from the AIS Welcome screen Menu Bar.

The Student Evaluation Worksheet module provides an option to generate the cover sheets separately from the report. The report, cover sheets, the Record Preparation Worksheet and Comments Sheet may be re-run several times before each Board meeting if required.

Cover sheets are generated on Fridays by the examiners in Admissions Department for the Admissions Board meeting the following Thursday. Cover sheets can be generated on any day they are required. Weekly generation starts in mid-August for the early Admissions Board meeting and stops after the Naval Academy Preparatory School (NAPS) Admissions Board in late May.

During the briefing of a student’s record, other Board members can review printed reports with the student’s summary information.

The Preliminary Completed Records Report summarizes each candidate’s record that has at least the minimum information available to be scholastically evaluated by the Admissions Board. This report is accessible by selecting Reports, Admissions Board; Preliminary Completed Records from the AIS website.

The Chairman of the Admissions Board runs the Board meetings. The chairman serves for two years or less, is appointed by the Dean of Admissions and is usually a military officer with current military orders who has been at the Academy for one year.

The Admissions Board scholastic evaluation of a student begins with reviewing the student’s Rank in Class, SAT-Math and SAT-Verbal, but will also include other factors to view the whole person candidate.

One of those factors could be average SAT scores. Some reasons for not scholastically qualifying a student who has qualifying SAT scores would be
The student took the SAT exam multiple times (some as many as five or six times) before qualifying.
The student did not take a math course in 11th grade.
The student had too many grades of C.

Each student submits a Personal Statement. The Board looks at the student’s statement for reasons why the student wants to attend the Naval Academy. Some reasons are better received by the Board than others.