STEM?

Do you think they are using the waitlist as a way to delay the process?
Highly doubt it. Instead, it is probably done so that they can fill it to the capacity when someone received an offer declines/withdraws.
 
Do you think they are using the waitlist as a way to delay the process?

To be honest I have had kids applying and attending since they started STEM I think around 2009 ish and I've never seen so many people waitlisted. That's just my thoughts!! However, my Mid said they have a lot of people drop out so maybe they felt like they needed to up the list a bit!!
 
To all the Wait Listed folks out there (which includes my own DD), please take this for what it's worth. My DS is a Class of 2020 plebe (soon to be plebe no more). When his sister was wait listed for STEM, she was pretty bummed, so he did some recon among his friends. Turns out one of the smartest kids he knows at USNA, the one he goes to for Chem 2 help (because lord knows he's not coming to me...), who is the first of his family to go to college, and is a great athlete also got wait listed for STEM when he applied.

So if you're going to USNA STEM, awesome. If you're not going, or are wait listed, don't sweat it. Consider this just your first window into the vagaries of military decision making...
 
Our whole purpose for her going is to get a first hand experience of Annapolis without me or any family whispering in her ear about how amazing it is. I want her to decide if it's a good fit.
Honestly I'm still in shock. My dd has regular 8th grade math on her application since she couldn't take Pre-AP due to not taking it in 7th grade (long story). Her only exceptional stats were being Honor Cadet at a Sea Cadet AT, Student Council Member of the Year for 7th grade, Color Guard, being a fill in division leader, and student leadership for our church. She's not a Duke TIP scholar, hasn't taken the PSAT or any other standardized test except STAAR testing.
She seems to think it's because she talked to the admissions rep for USNA at the Service Academy Forum and told him she had applied for STEM but hadn't heard anything back...I somehow doubt that.
 
Our whole purpose for her going is to get a first hand experience of Annapolis without me or any family whispering in her ear about how amazing it is. I want her to decide if it's a good fit.
Honestly I'm still in shock. My dd has regular 8th grade math on her application since she couldn't take Pre-AP due to not taking it in 7th grade (long story). Her only exceptional stats were being Honor Cadet at a Sea Cadet AT, Student Council Member of the Year for 7th grade, Color Guard, being a fill in division leader, and student leadership for our church. She's not a Duke TIP scholar, hasn't taken the PSAT or any other standardized test except STAAR testing.
She seems to think it's because she talked to the admissions rep for USNA at the Service Academy Forum and told him she had applied for STEM but hadn't heard anything back...I somehow doubt that.

As a mom who had thee Mids get into the academy I can tell you it's a package deal. She sounds well rounded. My 2 younger Mids didn't have stellar grades either and both attended Naps. It also has to do with demographics. Keep working on SATs and Good luck and keep doing what your doing....Go Navy!!
 
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DD got back last night. She talked non-stop from the airport to home while texting the others from her group. Her Midshipman were Nate and Megan.
She said the best part of the weekend was when the STEM kids crashed the NASS BBQ. They were supposed to go play sports in the field but "Nate" decided that the BBQ would be more fun because some of his mid friends (detailers?) were with that group. She said someone finally noticed there was A LOT of younger kids and kicked the STEM group out.
They got a tour and were taught all of the traditions/superstitions, like how you can't walk across the crest on the floor or you'll fail finals, the heart of a ship being inside a bronze statue, the coins that the mids throw in a fountain(?) for good luck before exams...fun things like that.
There was an interesting mix of kids from all over, including overseas. There was a kid from Japan, England, Puerto Rico, Northern Africa, some that were homeschooled and wicked smart and then others like dd that are smart but not braniacs.
Small world...she got there and ran into a girl that she was at an Advanced Training with last summer for Sea Cadets and lives in the next town over from us!
 
The coins before exams...throwing them into Tecumseh's quiver. Tecumseh's statue overlooks T-Court, T being Tecumseh, of course. That's the heart of a ship reference too.

As always, for those just starting this journey, reading every USNA.edu page, link and dropdown can produce most of the background or answers:
https://www.usna.edu/PAO/faq_pages/Tecumseh.php
 
I have attended the STEM camp earlier this month and from my point of view it seemed the admission made an effort to pick students from a range of diverse backgrounds and different parts of the world (Including diverse ethnicity and an equal amount of boys and girls). For example if you lived in Maryland and were applying for STEM the competition would be higher, due to more students applying in that area (It would be more convenient with traveling/transportation/financially though as well:)

Very proud of every one of you that applied! Even if put on waiting list:) Being accepted to USNA STEM Summer Camp, will not impact your chances in gettinng in at all either! For one thing, It would give you a chance to look more into the academy, meet mids, ask questions, and decide if its really for you:) Hope this helped! Best of luck with applying in the next years! If you don't get accepted first or second time, don't give up bud!! Plus there is a summer seminar program you can enter Junior year (Entering Senior) which is a great opportunity to get your application started and get a taste of Plebe year/summer:) Let me know if you have any questions and id be more than glad to give you my best answer! Good luck and best of luck!!!
 
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