{"id":27193,"date":"2010-05-03T10:50:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T14:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123201990"},"modified":"2010-05-03T10:50:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T14:50:41","slug":"schriever-airman-accepted-into-usafa-prep-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=27193","title":{"rendered":"Schriever Airman accepted into USAFA prep school"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123201990\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/100422-F-9523M-42.JPG\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Airman 1st Class Alan Acosta dreamt of being an Air Force officer since enlisting at the age of 17. Little did he know his dream would be realized.<\/p>\n<p>The Airman from the 50th Comptroller Squadron received an unexpected surprise when 1st Lt. Eddie Cunningham, U.S. Air Force Academy diversity recruiting regional director, personally presented him with a letter of acceptance into the Academy&#8217;s prepatory school April 22.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we&#8217;re looking at is the whole person concept. We look at their high school transcripts, SAT scores, and more importantly, their commander&#8217;s recommendation and potential for future leadership,&#8221; Lieutenant Cunningham said. &#8220;Every year we have about 11,000 to 12,000 applicants from across the country who apply. We have a selection rate of about 13 percent so it&#8217;s very, very selective.&#8221;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123201990\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}