Why Do You Want To Attend a Service Academy?

The “Why do you want to attend a Service Academy” question comes up each year, but so few applicants give good answers. Why is that?

When interviewing candidates, we assume that roughly half of the answers sound the same. It starts to sound like a broken record.

The WHY question is the one question that you know FOR SURE is coming. It’s what you would call “an open book test”, so this should be easy, right?

But its not easy.

Something so basic as asking WHY is actually fairly complex. Instead of knocking this essay/interview question out of the park, we give robotic, surface-level answers. And the worst part is, it leaves doubt in the interviewers and essay readers’ minds that you actually know what you are getting yourself into.

The truth is, you are 17 years old and about to embark on a strenous, multi-year commitment. This endeavor takes an enormous amount of maturity and self-awareness.

Know your WHYs, and give personal examples to support it.

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