There is truly no rush on the VP nom application right now. For the SAs who use it, it’s the SA who manages and selects who gets it. No VP staffers are taking direct action on it. You’ll want to submit carefully written, polished and thoughtful essays.
This time of year, applicants for the next cycle are:
- researching their elected officials’ websites for SA information sessions, identifying due dates, seeing when applications open for those officials and what is required, due dates.
- determining what teacher evaluations and recommendations will be needed for SA applications and nomination applications, giving teachers a heads up, ensuring you have contact info for them over the summer.
- checking out the requirements for the CFA, doing a practice one precisely as specified with a helper, to see what you might need to work on, and shoot for getting that done, and done well, over the summer. You do not want to be in a flail about that 30 days before applications close.
- doing serious thinking about your alternate college plans and ROTC path, should you not be successful in obtaining a SA appointment for Class of 2026.
- getting your preferred organizational system going, spreadsheet, folders, binders, etc. and building out a master plan of due dates and action items. Some people apply to all 5 Academies, plus all Service ROTC scholarship programs, other scholarships, plus other college applications. All this while doing senior year class work and activities. This can all be done if you invest enough planning time at the front end.