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For FA, most grads are TDY and housed on post in a hotel at Ft. Sill. Spouses are not authorized to accompany. If PCS because of late BOLC date and required snowbird time, then not an issue because grad has to live off-post in an apartment. You can go to BOLC info for each branch to find out...

My wording may have been confusing. Sorry for that. And this was for class of 2017 - 936 total graduates out of 1200 admitted, 151 women of the 188 admitted (originally 194 admitted but 6 were not able to start with class for whatever reason). Overall, I think the much larger percentages of...

FWIW, the 2016 tour guide was in a class that was still under the old class makeup percentiles, which admitted up to 15-16% women, and expected to graduate 9-10% (normal attrition across the board). My 2017 daughter's class make-up also mirrored the 16% admission profile (and graduated 11% of...

DODMERB can point you to the form - just call the info line and explain.

Definitely A Day. You will only see your cadet briefly on R-Day to hug goodbye and then again from a far distance at the Oath Ceremony. A Day you get to be with your cadet for about 12 hours on Saturday and again on Sunday from 5AM to 4-5 PM. The incredible WP Parent Liaison (on staff at WP)...

Back in the day, my daughter sent a small "manicure in a box" - some fun colors, a plain color that also met authos. Just something fun to say thanks for being a great hostess. It was appreciated and yes, maybe not the norm, but my daughter remained in touch with her hostess until she graduated.

in our case, we checked the box on medical, a remedial was entered sending him for blood work, the blood work came back positive, a DQ was entered, and status is "awaiting waiver request" - but USAFA won't waive a positive blood test for nut allergy, so he is medically disqualified. A waiver...

^^ I am aware of cadets (not my own) for whom a tree nut allergy has been waived. Best of luck to you. At this point, wishing mine had a nom to USMA

Have had two cadets at WP - based on their friends, we know USMA WILL waive a tree nut allergy. My youngest applied to USAFA and has been DQ'd for tree nut allergy. DODMERB sent a remedial for blood work to confirm. It returned positive allergy results, and it appears no waiver will be...

My son has a nomination and is otherwise qualified, but was medically disqualified about two months ago for a mild tree nut allergy. Our understanding is that since there are two other candidates in our congressional district who are fully qualified, a waiver will not be processed. In light of...

^^ Yes, that method worked for me as well - just have to answer questions as if they are being spent on education until you get to the right question.

My daughter (straight) graduated last year. There are many gay cadets (female and male). One young man brought his male date to class events with full support of his friends and classmates, and two female cadets recently announced their engagement. Yes, there are some neanderthals, but they...

^^ My DS has a nom to USAFA and a mild tree nut allergy (he had hives that immediately receded with benadryl ). He was tested by DODMERB and tested positive. As a result, he was DQ'd and no waiver has been initiated. Based upon my read of this page and the fact that no waiver has been...

You just need one that can accept custom textbooks and interact w/ the wifi. Mine brought one and it worked just fine.

Urine testing is completed within 72 hours of arrival at any SA for purposes of drug testing. One would assume that significant illness like diabetes would be reported on the medical history form. DODMERB exams aren't for diagnosing but to eyeball each cadet for anything obvious and to...