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    Presumably no prepatory school?

    There is a difference between USMAPS and a civilian prep school. USMAPS admission is primarily for promising candidates found academically unqualified and consists largely of recruited athletes, soldiers, and minority candidates. There are no AOG scholarships for USMAPS. It is government funded...
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    What are LOAs based on?

    For USMA, LOA's go primarily to recruited athletes and minorities, and these appointments often get charged to the Additional Appointee category. Traditionally, USMA issued very few LOA's other than those two cases, although in recent years the number seems to have increased a bit. In most...
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    Reapply?

    Yes. They will want all transcripts for placement/validation.
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    Reapply?

    Yes. All colleges will want a final transcript. That is how they know you actually graduated.
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    College Acceptance and USMA

    You can accept now or wait a little longer, but make sure you know the deadlines for UNG and the Army scholarship. Don't wait until right before the deadline - stuff happens and you don't want to miss the deadline. It will not be viewed negatively to accept one offer and later decline, as long...
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    FFR says it's over for me. Is it?

    FFR's can't see WCS scores, but can see status of all candidates in district(s) - file completion status, appointment offers, acceptances, etc. Possible that this FFR saw that other candidates had already accepted appointment offesr for the applicable slates. But it ain't over until the TWE...
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    Appointment Question

    Admissions gives MOC's 72 hours to notify appointee before admissions sends notification.
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    Candidate File Qualified but I have a Principal Nom??

    USNA is different. USNA is not required to offer appointment to fully qualified Principal Nominee, but usually does.
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    Candidate File Qualified but I have a Principal Nom??

    Admissions should do everyone a favor and eliminate the term "National Waiting List" in the 3Q letter. It just confuses everyone. As mentioned above, there is no waiting list in the sense that most people understand the term.
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    Chances with 3 nominations

    1 MOC and 2 Senators = 3 slates. Yes it helps, but he still has to be fully qualified and beat the other 9 nominees on at least one slate to receive an appointment.
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    "The Silence"

    No, it has not been done in many decades and there is nothing like it today. Even when it was done, it was very rare and done in response to the failure of the academy to expel a cadet found in violation of the honor code. In a more embarrassing part of West Point history, a form of silencing...
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    Letter -- 3Q and on National Waiting List

    No, it does not mean someone else won the slate. It only means they completed evaluation of his file and found him 3Q, and he will wait on the NWL with all the other candidates they found 3Q. Someone may have won the slate if there are no applications working their way through the pipeline, and...
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    What is 3Q?

    If it is the correspondence I think it is, Qualified = 3Q They want 7th semester transcripts from all qualified candidates to make sure you stay qualified.
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    Curveball/High-Pressure Interview?

    OP - you learned a valuable lesson: jackasses come in all shapes and sizes and often appear when you least expect them. There is a difference between the pressure felt from questioning to further an in depth discussion of a topic and questions of the "got ya" variety. The latter tend to be...
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    Admissions View

    First and foremost academically, admissions wants to determine if you can excel in a STEM program. If this is your first physics class, in my opinion it would be a bad idea not to take it, both from an admissions standpoint and preparation for USMA coursework. IF this is a second physics...
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