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    Michelle Obama Graduation dinner Speech

    Mrs. Obama's speech was moving. Her comments to the parents of the graduating cadets that: "So, to the parents: I can only imagine the joy you’ll feel tomorrow when you see your sons and daughters in their officer’s uniforms for the first time. I can only imagine the pride that comes from...
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    Army Aviation Slots

    With regards to the question about cadets getting into aviation there is something that has gone unsaid. In order to take an aviation slot you must be pilot qualified. That means that if there is a physical reason, like a problem with your eyes, you can not take an aviaition slot even if you...
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    Wait Listed

    You might also ask your ALO and/or your regional folks about an AOG Scholarship Opportunity. Every year there are qualified candidates that for some reason don't get the nod from their respective member of congress or senator. As a way of keeping those candidates they receive an AOG...
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    WP and NMSF/NMF

    My son was a National Merit Finalist and a member of the Class of 2011. We were told by someone in the Admissions Group that he was one of about one hundred semi-finalists/finalists that year.
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    Where there is a will.........

    Congratualtions! My son's road to West Point went through Marion Military Institute for the 2006-2007 school year. He reports on R-Day this July for the Class of 2011. His expereince at Marion was a good one and he has about 20 friends that will start with him on July 2nd, which has to be a...
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    Latest people have heard?

    As long as you haven't gotten a rejection letter you are still in the hunt, but you may need to have a good plan B. From what I can tell, the number of kids that get a "late appointment" varies from year to year. If the yield rate was high for the Class of 2011, meaning they had more kids...
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    CFA

    In my earlier post I said that my son was told that he should treat the averages as the minimum scores. There have been, however, a number of posts on this and other web sites from kids that got in that had a bad event, eg., one in which their result in a specific event was below the published...
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    CFA

    My son was told to treat the published averages as minimum scores. You might be able to get away with being a little under in one exercise, if you do exceptionally well in another. The pull ups seem to be the problem area for lots of kids. Usually, but not always, those kids are a little...
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    "Not Competitive" Letter

    I agree with Mom of Twins about having your son call and his college counselor prepare an acurate description of your son's school.
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    Field Force Members...

    Field Force representatives are volunteers trying to help out their alma mater. Like everyone in life, they may be busy one week and not the other. My son's Field Force representative was absolutely fabulous and did all kind of things to help my son. On the other hand, the Navy Blue and Gold...
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    "Not Competitive" Letter

    Follow up with Admissions There is wiggle room at all of the academies with regard to class rank. Many private prep schools do not rank their students at all. Some that do may have half of the class that are National Merit finalists. As a result, the Admissions Office is not comparing apples...
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