Yep that is it. If you log into the CIS portal, it will use the actual words Letter of Assurance. How do I know? My daughter JUST got that same email! Wowee Wow Wow.
My daughter received an email a week ago. I am assuming this is an LOA. Can someone confirm this. I couldn't find an example online.
The email wording starts with:
We are pleased to advise you that the Admissions Board has recommended you for admission to the United States Naval Academy with the Class of 2021. You are guaranteed an offer of appointment if your remaining admissions requirements are satisfactorily met. You should be proud of your outstanding accomplishments as you have earned an opportunity to join one of the country's premier officer training programs. As the undergraduate college of the Navy and Marine Corps, the Naval Academy will prepare you to become a leader in the Naval Service and provide an experience unmatched by any other college or university.
Did all of you have all of your application requirements in before you got the email?Yup email, just got one!!!!
It's really early to expect to be hearing much of anything, IMO. My advice to anyone applying (and their parents) is to prepare yourself to wait, try not to get frustrated and have good backup plans ready. My DD received her appointment to USNA in late January 2 years ago, but DS received a TWE the afternoon of the very last day this past spring. So, you just never know when you are going to hear or what the answer will be.Although I'm a newbie to all this, it seems to me that getting an LOA this early in the fall is just incredibly random and lucky.
My daughter is a recruited athlete. The application was started July 1 and the last recommendation letter was submitted on July 26. The only thing missing now is her BGO interview and Dodmerb medical.Are either of the young ladies that received LOA athletes? When was their application submitted
My daughter doesn't have any nominations yet.Do either of the girls with LOAs have nominations yet? Like presidential?
Hello everyone.
My daughter is a recruited athlete. The application was started July 1 and the last recommendation letter was submitted on July 26. The only thing missing now is her BGO interview and Dodmerb medical.
My daughter doesn't have any nominations yet.
She attended NASS last June and loved it. I think she got a recommendation from her squad leader (not sure of my terms)
As I have said before that LOA is not the "Golden Ticket". There are many hurdles ahead especially this early in the application process. It is unknown how many are given out, but many more in the Fall is not correct and my understanding is that they are few and far between. Yes they want your child to continue the process. Yes they are someone the Academy desires based upon their current academics and or sport participation. DoDMERB can be a heartbreaker (they will work with you) but they can fight through it. Then there is the nomination process. Then the CFA. It is a long way from LOA to I-Day.
USNAhopeful21, you would receive an appointment (not an LOA), presumed you are medically and physically qualified.
any reasonable question that we want about the process
its not hurting anyone
I don't want anybody to take this wrong (and this is coming from a female former officer, who has a daughter on a NROTC scholarship and a son who is a current cadet who had received a LOA), but to me, it has seemed that over the last couple of years, more LOAs seem to be going to the really well qualified female applicants. With the academies actively working to increase their numbers of females, they want to try to lock in these great women candidates as soon as they can. This can be the case with stellar minority candidates, as well. Just like the NASS, SLE, AIM, etc. summer programs being a recruiting tools, so are LOAs. The academies use these to try to woo in and secure the candidates that they want to fill out their class with and certain demographics are harder to entice, and are being courted by other academies and universities at the same time they are.
Thank you.If your daughter walks into the interview with a copy of her LOA she's basically guaranteed a nomination baring any major screw-ups (those are the words from my BGO). Imo it's not a bad idea to include a copy of it in her packet though, so the board interviewing her can see it before hand.
If your daughter walks into the interview with a copy of her LOA she's basically guaranteed a nomination baring any major screw-ups (those are the words from my BGO). Imo it's not a bad idea to include a copy of it in her packet though, so the board interviewing her can see it before hand.