Cadet Admissions

High School Graduates

Requirements for admission if you graduate from an accredited high school or home school, are under 23 years old, did not attend college after high school:

Required Documents:

  • Submit an on-line Application for Undergraduate Admission.
  • Submit official SAT I (minimum Math is 440 and Critical Reading is 480) or ACT scores (minimum Math is 18 and English is 20).
  • Submit Lawful Presence Verification.
  • Submit official high school transcripts.  Applicants must have earned the following 17 (16 for students graduating before to 2012) CPC (College-Preparatory Curriculum) units with a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.8:

English

4 units (Grammar, Literature, Advanced Composition)

Mathematics

4 units (Algebra I and II, Geometry, and a fourth year of an advanced math course that has these courses as prerequisites; note that Financial Algebra, Decision Making, Consumer Math and Business Math cannot be the additional mathematics course.

Science

4 units (at least one laboratory course from the life sciences and one laboratory course from the physical sciences. Students who graduate before 2012 must have 3 units of science. Graduates are encouraged to have at least one unit of biology; one unit of physical science or physics; one unit of chemistry, earth systems, or environmental science)

Social Science

3 units (must include a unit focusing on U.S. studies and a unit focusing on world studies)

Foreign Language

2 units of the same foreign language (2 units of American Sign Language may also be used to satisfy this requirement)


Note:
Applicants must be at least 17 years old before the start of Cadet basic training (FROG Week).