wrights1994 said:
Do we contact our ALO or congressman now?
No, he has 2 more yrs before he is even eligible to start the application process.
1. You do not know if either will be in that capacity in 2 yrs.
MOC's change, especially this yr with the general election. You would be spinning your wheels.
ALO's are volunteers, this is not their day job. They can move and all of that "face time" is down the drain.
2. The AFA has @ 10K applicants a yr. Right now many 2017 are contacting both their MOCs and ALOs, this is on top of them dealing with 2016 appointee/candidates.
Your DS is 2019. Review point 1. The MOC staff doesn't even know if they will be there in 2014.
There is no guidance they will be able to give regarding anything for your child.
3. Kids change.
Our DS since he was 10 wanted to be an AF JAG. His dream college was Duke since he was 8. That was set in stone for @ 6 yrs. Duke AFROTC undergrad, Law school after graduation and 20 yrs in AF JAG.
Summer rising jr yr:
boff Duke...Notre Dame all the way! Same plan AFROTC undergrad, Law school, etc.
March jr yr.:
AFA...huh? JAG, but probably Pilot now. Huh? Duke not even on his list, Notre Dame is plan B.
~~~ Whiplash for Bullet and I
Fall SR yr:
AFA, Notre Dame, Columbia (HUH?), UMDCP, NYU Sterns, and UMiami (Huh?)
No more Law school in the plan at all. AF 20 yrs all the way, Pilot 1st choice, Intel 2nd choice. Govt and Politics major.
Feb 1st Sr yr:
UMDCP all the way on AFROTC scholarship. When the college acceptances came in, I opened them, not because I was nosy, I gave him the chance 1st, but because he said "I don't care, I won't go there even if they take me".
FF March 2012:
Will graduate from UMDCP with a Scholars program citation and has a UPT slot to Laughlin AFB.
I used our child as an example to illustrate how young he is right now, and how quickly they will change.
Yes, some have had this dream forever, but if you only have tunnel vision on that Plan A, you may create a path for them that they now are following because of your best intentions for them.
He has a strong profile, keep him on this path, but as others have said let him take control, he will succeed in anything.