Recent content by USMC Crayons

Congratulations! It definitely sounds like you will do great things both in and out of the Army. If they rejected somebody with your tenacity and grit 3x, somebody messed up somewhere.

I didn't imply that it was cookie cutter, and frankly not really looking for transparency...it's the Naval Academies' ship and they can steer it any way that they want to. However, I will say that when you ask a candidate on 2/5 (after they know no dice on a nomination) for high school course...

Well, if that's the case that they are voting on and scoring the majority of packages for prep before noms are even solidified, I don't know why they are keeping kids pending without a nomination as long as they are. If candidates are rolling into Feb/Mar and they are not scoring for prep, then...

I don't it will think it will necessarily increase appointments, but at least more will have a chance. If you don't have a ticket to the dance, your chances are virtually zero...at least more kids will now have a chance. In our district alone, there were <10 applicants for AF and USMA. There...

I have to agree with A1 here. This is a big win for competitive districts.

Some of you are never happy on here. Don't call us, look it up on your own, but when you do look it up that's wrong too. When it's almost November and you don't have a BGO assigned and the AC "doesn't see you in the system" you or your DS wouldn't go on google to get information on the the BGO...

If the only expectation of a BGO is to have one interaction with a candidate via an interview, that’s cool. But the Naval Academy needs to set that expectation with candidates that are not familiar with the process. Because I can tell you, that’s not the picture that is painted on the USNA...

I give credit where it is due. The BGO that DS finally happened to stumble upon by pure chance, has gone WAY above and beyond. DS could not have asked for a better mentor. Not only did he do a "pre" interview, but spent over an hour with DS for the formal one, and has kept in touch after the...

We know several families that had kids that were candidates for the Class of 2028 (4 to be exact). All of them except one had relatively major issues with the application process. In order: 1. Could not get a BGO assigned through the normal process of contacting admissions and the AC. The...

Of all the people in this forum, you certainly take the prize for minimizing anyone’s ideas simply because of you and your kids experience. You’re the kind of person that just has to be right. Well, I will do you a favor, I hereby deem you to be in possession of every right answer in this...

I think the point you are missing is that you know that, and USNA knows that, but candidates don’t.

Being a candidates personal Google is not the BGO's job, however that is not the issue many parents of candidates (and candidates have). The issue is that what Annapolis is telling you a BGO does and what really happens for many candidates is not matching up for many people trying to apply...

I feel for you, our DS had a pretty poor experience overall, but it's not something we dwell on. The only thing I can chalk it up to is that if you look at the candidate numbers from West Point, and AFA, the Naval Academy certainly has more people to pick from. So just like anything else in...

Ok, to rephrase...extremely unlikely to get in. General idea still stands. We know a significant amount of the people from our area currently at Annapolis. Either from athletics, work or school related. It's pretty much slate winners and athletes. Is there a onesie/twosie there...

Awesome to see you were waitlisted without a nomination. No such luck with my DS, but glad someone else is getting traction with this crazy process! The silver lining is that we found out who got the appointment in our district, and the competition was over before it started, so some solace in...