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Student Body
1st-year students:
 * 1) 7% In-state students
 * 2) 93% Out-of-state students
 * 3) 22% Women
 * 4) 78% Men
 * 5) 52% in top 10th of graduating class
 * 6) 80% in top quarter of graduating class
 * 7) 99% in top half of graduating class
 * 8) 66% had h.s. GPA of 3.75 and higher
 * 9) 15% had h.s. GPA between 3.5 and 3.74
 * 10) 14% had h.s. GPA between 3.25 and 3.49
 * 11) 3% had h.s. GPA between 3.0 and 3.24
 * 12) 2% had h.s. GPA between 2.5 and 2.99

Type of School

 * 1) Public
 * 2) Military College
 * 3) Four-year
 * 4) Coed
 * 5) Percent applicants admitted: 18%

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Prep School: Academics: Athletics:
 * 1) Tuition, room, board, medical and dental care paid by U.S. Government.
 * 2) Each cadet receives monthly salary to pay for uniforms, supplies and personal expenses.
 * 3) Satisfactory completion of medical exam and fitness test, and personal interview required
 * 4) If they fail any of the test they can be disenroled
 * 5) The mascot is a falcon
 * 1) The prep school's mission is to motivate, prepare, and evaluate selected candidates in an academic, military, moral, and physical environment, to perform successfully and enhance diversity at the Air Force Academy
 * 2) The prep school achieves this mission by qualifying cadet candidates for academy appointments; developing in those students a sense of accomplishment and self-confidence that enables them to function in the Academy's demanding environment, and motivating students to attend the Academy, graduate, and become career officers in the U.S. Air Force
 * 3) Between 75 and 80 percent of all entering students earn an appointment to the Academy
 * 4) The director selects both enlisted active duty and civilian applicants who have applied for admission to the Academy but were not selected for direct entry
 * 5) Approximately 240 cadet candidates enter the prep school each summer. About 20 percent of the students are prior enlisted, 50 percent are minorities and 15 percent are women
 * 6) Many prep school graduates go on to distinguish themselves in military and academic areas at the Academy
 * 1) The U.S. Air Force Academy is recognized as one of the nation's finest four-year institutions of higher learning and is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, the Committee on Professional Training and the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
 * 2) The Academy offers 32 academic majors in technical fields such as astronautical engineering and aeronautical engineering, computer science, space operations and system engineering management
 * 3) The school offers non-techincal degrees in fields such as political science, social sciences, English, history and humanities
 * 4) Minors in foreign language and philosophy are also offered
 * 5) All cadets may pursue the major and minor of their choice
 * 6) The total academic curriculum is designed to develop future Air Force officers whose minds are innovative, analytical, and resourceful
 * 7) Cadets are awarded letter grades that denote the character of their academic work and are assigned grade points on a four-point scale
 * 8) To graduate from the Academy, cadets must achieve a minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.00 overall, a core GPA of 2.0 and a cumulative GPA of 2.0 in their major
 * 9) Those who excel academically (3.0 GPA or higher) are placed on the Dean's List for that semester
 * 10) Throughout the academic year, cadets may also attend presentations by distinguished political, academic, business, media, cultural, and military leaders
 * 1) The goals of the athletic program are to enhance the physical conditioning of all cadets, to develop the physical skills necessary for officership, to teach leadership in a competitive environment and to build character
 * 2) There are three subdivisions of the athletic program: intercollegiate, intramural and physical education
 * 3) Both men's and women's programs compete at the NCAA Division I level in the Mountain West Conference