I go to Cal Poly Pomona in Southern California. I applied at the Academy in Annapolis when I was a senior in high school. I interviewed with my local Representative from Congress and got a referral letter from him.....I passed all of the rigorous physical and medical exams.....ultimately, I was turned down because I wasn't scholastically qualified. I was a little bewildered because I had a good GPA and a pretty high SAT score as well. But it wasn't my decision so I moved on to Cal Poly.