Recent content by jl123

Yes. AMEX will waive fees for Cadets. Platinum Card is a great deal, especially if you travel. Many discounts and travel benefits. DS got it plebe year and got a nice points bonus (80k I think) for referring me. Hasn't used points yet and now almost 8 years later has over 450,000 points...

The reason for the default amount set to maximum is that many will not remember to increase it later or will be penny wise and naively select too low an amount. The insurance is cheap, has no combat exclusions, and it is better to have too much insurance than too little. I was once the...

It's about the WCS points: Participant: some points Varsity: more points Letter: even more points Team Captain: lots more points Significant Achievement (State Champion, etc.): extra points Good enough to get recruited: If you are 3Q, you're in if the coach wants you bad enough. If not...

Yes. If you are offered a USMA appointment take the time you need to decide up to the USMA deadline, keeping the USAFA appointment. If you accept USMA, you should then quickly (within a day or two) decline the USAFA appointment. In your case, you should probably decide beforehand what you...

Accept USAFA now. If you then get an appointment to USMA and prefer USMA, you can accept USMA and withdraw from USAFA. It is standard practice and happens every year. The only wrong thing would be to keep both for an extended period of time while trying to decide.

Good point. I once hired a lawyer for a traffic infraction even though I didn't think it would do any good. I was wrong - ticket dismissed and cost of lawyer was less than amount of ticket. Didn't even have to meet him. Hired him and submitted info through his website and no need to appear in...

Not necessarily the top 150 on the NWL - appointees who win slates are also on the NWL (thousands on NWL). I guess you could say it is the top 150 on the NWL who have not yet been appointed. QA's are the next 150 most qualified by WCS score after appointees from all of the slates mandated in US...

1. The fact that someone else in your district received an offer of appointment is not relevant since you have no way of knowing their category of appointment - slate winner, Qualified Alternate, Additional Appointee, Presidential, etc. Only if they have been declared the slate winner does it...

There is a difference between USMAPS and a civilian prep school. USMAPS admission is primarily for promising candidates found academically unqualified and consists largely of recruited athletes, soldiers, and minority candidates. There are no AOG scholarships for USMAPS. It is government funded...

For USMA, LOA's go primarily to recruited athletes and minorities, and these appointments often get charged to the Additional Appointee category. Traditionally, USMA issued very few LOA's other than those two cases, although in recent years the number seems to have increased a bit. In most...

Yes. They will want all transcripts for placement/validation.

Yes. All colleges will want a final transcript. That is how they know you actually graduated.

You can accept now or wait a little longer, but make sure you know the deadlines for UNG and the Army scholarship. Don't wait until right before the deadline - stuff happens and you don't want to miss the deadline. It will not be viewed negatively to accept one offer and later decline, as long...

FFR's can't see WCS scores, but can see status of all candidates in district(s) - file completion status, appointment offers, acceptances, etc. Possible that this FFR saw that other candidates had already accepted appointment offesr for the applicable slates. But it ain't over until the TWE...

Admissions gives MOC's 72 hours to notify appointee before admissions sends notification.