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Dear Friends,
Well we finally received the final word today on the status of the waiver. It's denied.
For those who don't know, my daughter attended NASS last summer and fell in love with the Academy. She made it her plan A. She received her LoA in October and just needed to get the nomination and waiver for near sightedness. She got her nomination and has been working on getting the waiver since Jan/Feb time frame.
Mr. Mullen has been a great help and we really appreciate all that he did and tried to do. Rosalina got about as close to getting the waiver as I think is possible, but it didn't work out.
She had moved onto her plan B some time ago in preparation for getting bad news.
So here is what she is doing. She's been accepted to every school that she applied to, except USNA. She accepted Whitworth, which is a private Christian College in Spokane. She is not going to partake in the NROTC program there because it is a nursing only program and she doesn't want to be a nurse.
However, she is enrolling in PLC, which once she took a close look at it, she actually felt it might be a better fit for her to achieve her long term goals. She is currently only planning on attending Whitworth for one year, for the experience and moral values that a Christian College can bring. For next year, she plans on reapplying to the USNA and hope they make a better decision next year. She's also going to apply for USMA and USAFA since her eyesight is within their standards.
If she doesn't make it to USNA, USMA or USAFA next year, she plans on wrapping up PLC while attending either Stanford or Georgetown for her remaining 3 years. Her mother and I really like the Stanford idea since it's only 1 1/2 miles up the street from the house.
She plans on making a career in the service, specializing in Intelligence and Linguistics. I'm proud of her, and she's on track to achieving all that she desires.
She plans on sending emails to all of her friends that she's made on this board, and also to the folks at USNA and DoDMERB. But right now she's studying for her AP English exam that is at 7:30am, so she asked me to just post something on the board for tonight.
I plan on staying around the board for a couple of reasons, (1) She's planning on re-applying for USNA and applying for the 1st time to two other academies. and (2) the Marine Corps seems under-represented on this board, and I found that I enjoy being able to answer questions and help when I can.
JB
Well we finally received the final word today on the status of the waiver. It's denied.
For those who don't know, my daughter attended NASS last summer and fell in love with the Academy. She made it her plan A. She received her LoA in October and just needed to get the nomination and waiver for near sightedness. She got her nomination and has been working on getting the waiver since Jan/Feb time frame.
Mr. Mullen has been a great help and we really appreciate all that he did and tried to do. Rosalina got about as close to getting the waiver as I think is possible, but it didn't work out.
She had moved onto her plan B some time ago in preparation for getting bad news.
So here is what she is doing. She's been accepted to every school that she applied to, except USNA. She accepted Whitworth, which is a private Christian College in Spokane. She is not going to partake in the NROTC program there because it is a nursing only program and she doesn't want to be a nurse.
However, she is enrolling in PLC, which once she took a close look at it, she actually felt it might be a better fit for her to achieve her long term goals. She is currently only planning on attending Whitworth for one year, for the experience and moral values that a Christian College can bring. For next year, she plans on reapplying to the USNA and hope they make a better decision next year. She's also going to apply for USMA and USAFA since her eyesight is within their standards.
If she doesn't make it to USNA, USMA or USAFA next year, she plans on wrapping up PLC while attending either Stanford or Georgetown for her remaining 3 years. Her mother and I really like the Stanford idea since it's only 1 1/2 miles up the street from the house.
She plans on making a career in the service, specializing in Intelligence and Linguistics. I'm proud of her, and she's on track to achieving all that she desires.
She plans on sending emails to all of her friends that she's made on this board, and also to the folks at USNA and DoDMERB. But right now she's studying for her AP English exam that is at 7:30am, so she asked me to just post something on the board for tonight.
I plan on staying around the board for a couple of reasons, (1) She's planning on re-applying for USNA and applying for the 1st time to two other academies. and (2) the Marine Corps seems under-represented on this board, and I found that I enjoy being able to answer questions and help when I can.
JB