Recent content by commando530

If report is 1200, is it possible/allowed for plebe and parent to park at the stadium at 1100 and take the shuttle over so that parent will make it in time for the parent briefing scheduled at 1245(alumni brief at 1230). If I get dropped off right on time my parent would be cutting it close...

Thank you so much. Just to be clear, bring my extra compression shorts AND undershirts with me on I-Day? Also, is it possible to arrive too early prior to your report time. Say you report at 1100 and you show up to Gate 8 at 1000-1015, will they let you through?

Should extra undershirts and compression shorts be mailed in the first care package rather than brought with on I-Day? I am trying to go light with only a drawstring bag, glasses case, phone, prescription goggles, and maybe 3 pairs of compression shorts. I want prefer not to haul around my extra...

Idk if this is considered service but definitely mention this activity/hobby/whatever you want to call it during your interviews. My BGO interview was at my home so I was able to talk about and show him my model airplane collection over assembled over the years which I think he thought was...

Since this forum is open to opinions, one thing I haven’t really seen discussed is the fact that ENS Kinley was service assigned to the cryptological/information warfare community. The amount of foreign cyber attacks against our nation has been unprecedented in the past year, directly affecting...

Vaccination emails and the plebe summer briefing emails have been being sent to the email I’ve used for the application process. There will be an email sent with the link the day of the briefing, should be a personal link to log in to the chat it says.

Save the sweating for the next several months of waking up and opening your portal every morning waiting for the “application submitted” status to change.

There was supposed to be a plebe summer briefing tonight for ‘25 but it has been rescheduled back to June 14th. Email reads: “Leadership is reviewing our current plan for I-day and in order to provide the most up to date information for parents and candidates, we are postponing tonight's event...

2025 appointees have now received 4 emails in the past 4 weeks from admissions asking to fill out a google form on whether the incoming plebe has been vaccinated or not in order to determine how plebe summer will run(rom/no rom, etc). Today, in the 4th email, there was a newly added paragraph in...

When you click on the Patient Registration form pdf on the USNA PTR website it only has the first page on there, at the bottom it said page 1/2 and it looks like @pnwpandas was able to find the second page. However, I have already put the form in the mail.

Uh oh um, I mailed it in with only the first page completed as that second page you attached was not on there… do you think USNA will be able to accept it without the back?

If you have had impactful events with these activities, examples of your leadership in these activities, how the activities have helped you grow, etc, I don’t see the issue with “only” having these leadership posts. If those activities have been a big part of your life that’ll be really good for...

Anyone think a change to I-Day and plebe summer might be coming in the next week or couple weeks with the new masks guidelines at the Academy? Ex. only 1 I-Day, parents on I-Day, no rom, normal plebe summer, any changes?

This year I’ve seen it range from 2 weeks after notification to still waiting.

Honest advice since you are this far ahead of the game - I didn’t even start my nom essays until October - is to start a new draft, incorporate all the advice you’ve received while personalizing it as much as possible(more of that last paragraph), and then compare it to this one. Yes it might...