Alright, so I finally heard from Ms. Smith today. I called her because at the end of the day I still hadn't received an email, so you'll have to forgive me for paraphrasing. I believe I've kept the information as correct as possible.
Everyone is compared to army weight standards no matter which branch accepts them. There was no discrepancy between any of the charts for army weights, so just find your height on one of the documents I posted earlier, and you're good to go. That's the weight you need to be at or below to pass your physical.
If you want to be eligible for admission, you need to complete the physical by March 15, but you don't need to pass this physical (she hinted at the fact that they'll deny you acceptance and throw you off any waitlists if you don't complete a physical by March 15). If you don't pass for weight reasons, youll get an email one to two weeks later telling you that you need to see a recruiter to be body fat measured. The body fat measures are the standard army body fat measures (try googling form DA 5500 or DA 5501 and Table 3).
When you get to the recruiter, they should re-weigh you. If you're under the limit that time then they wont bother taping measuring you. If you're still not under weight, theyll tape you, and send your measurements back to the school, whether you pass or fail the taping. If you don't pass body fat limits, you can get re-weighed/tape-tested with a recruiter as many times as you want in the upcoming weeks as you try to lose weight.
She was very specific though, they want everyone to be healthy coming to the school. The recruiter will send them each one of your weights and measures when you visit them, and if they think you're being unhealthy about how quickly you're dropping weight, they'll be grumpy and concerned. They want everyone in top physical shape, not weak because they didn't eat for two months to get in.
As most of us know, you can be offered a conditional acceptance if you dont meet weight requirements but everything else in your file is fine. The next step is unconditional acceptance, and you only get that after passing all components of your physical. They really want everyone offered admission to have achieved that status by May 1st. But they MIGHT grant you leeway if they really like you as an applicant otherwise. She said its basically the only part of the application where they will make slight exceptions because, again, they want us to be healthy about losing weight, not starve ourselves to make weight by that date.
So that's how everything sounded to me. If you have any questions let me know, and I'll do my best to try to answer them from what she said. Otherwise, you'll have to call her with questions because this is basically the only info I have.
