GREAT NECK, N.Y. — When Rachelle David applied for admission to the yeshiva high school here, her interviewer wrote in his notes: “This girl is going to be a general in the army someday.”

Four years later, that prediction is still on track. Ms. David has accepted an offer of admission to West Point, which would, according to the military academy’s officials, make her the first female graduate of an Orthodox yeshiva to attend West Point in its 213-year history.

Why is that so unusual?

“I hate to say it, but it’s not a Jewish activity,” said Daniel J. Vitow, headmaster of the North Shore Hebrew Academy High School, a 400-student modern Orthodox yeshiva, and the man who interviewed Ms. David for admission. “The military is not what Jewish mothers want for their children. The stereotypical Jewish mother wants a doctor, a lawyer, an accountant, not an army general.”

Ms. David, 17, is the kind of stereotype-defying young woman who between classes the other day was carrying a balsa and string “Bridge on the River Kwai”-like model of a suspension bridge that she had built. The desktop photo on her laptop shows a West Point cadet wielding a rifle from a prone position.