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what percent of applicants have heard by now? Does everyone find out by April 15? Are the rest of the hopeful filling in as declines come in?

Had dentist appointment today. Dentist said I'll need wisdom teeth out in a few years-but no hurry now. My sport season will go up pretty close to I day-so I cant take them out now or when our season is done which is about two weeks before I day. Also my Dentist said Navy dentists are great (he...

Has anyone seen a breakdown of percentage of people who choose each major at USMA? I know most are engineering majors. I want to be an army officer first and foremost. I thought I wanted to major in engineering but for a while now I have been thinking about switching my major to English or...

I have two questions about sports that I do. I Box. This is not through school, it is through a boxing gym. we don't have a boxing team at my school so it has to be at a gym. I am a top boxer but they dont have varsity/jv. Is there a good way to list this? I white water kayak. I consider this...

Does anyone have their Sept 2012 ACT scores on their USNA Portal yet? Mine were automatically sent to USNA but are not listed yet.

I have some questions for the BGOs and anyone else with recent operational knowledge: *Do BGOs know if your application is about to go in front of an admissions board? *Do BGOs know if your application has gone in front of an admissions board? *Do BGOs know the results of your...

Reading over some of the stats on this forum I am amazed and intimidated.:confused: Would you say this forum is represents a typical profile of those who are applying? Or would you say that if you are posting here you may be naturally part of the upper tier-given that it is still summer and you...

When I applied to SLS I had questions about how to self report my writing score. I wasn't sure if I put the writing alone score (which seemed to be how it was written on the application) or the English + writing score. So I called the WP admission office and talked to a women there and asked...

I have a general question. I have a 32 composite on my ACT, 4.4 gpa w/10 honors or AP classes, varsity team captain, school club president,boys state, maxed 3 and well above average on rest of CFA at SLS, qualified dodmerb, 250+ volunteer hours. Having said that if there is someone from my town...

Does anyone know when the first admission board typically meets and if USNA will be doing LOAs this year?

I get that there will be less LOAs and I get why. My challenge (and probably alot of people) is that my area not only wont duplicate noms but you cant get a nom to two service academies-even among the three MOCs (I am sure there are always exceptions -but I cant count on that). We are told we...

Does anyone know what questions are on the SOE?

Hi, I am applying to the class of 2017 and I have a few questions. I just reached out to my BGO last week for the first time. My BGO gave me a very lukewarm response. My BGO said that they do not get any information about applicants until late august and the Admissions Board will not begin...

Girl from my high school got the nomination and then the appointment in our congressional district for Naval Academy.She turned it down yesterday and will to go to Rutgers. Does this mean that our congresswoman will have two openings for USNA for next year?

Im currently a junior. I have just reviewed the application packets for the MOC. I am in what is considered a competitive area. The MOC's get over 250 requests for noms for each of the SAs. Because of this the MOCs will not let you rank you SA request and can only pick one. additionally-they...

can anyone answer the following questions: *what makes a letter of recommendation (LOR) stand out from an average LOR? How can they help/hurt? *Teacher recommendations are on-line correct? Are they only from math and English? What is the online format? Is there a way for another teacher to...

I have taken the act twice and superscored have English 34 Math 33 Science 30 Reading 25 English/writing 34 Composite 31 As you can see the Reading will keep me out of the service academies I just received my PSAT scores Math 77 writing 67 reading 54 Total 198 The PSAT --> Sat concordance...

Do you know when the application process opens?

Can anyone tell me what to expect at a USMA admission event hosted by USMA? what typically goes on? Should I bring my resume? Will khakis, button down and tie suffice?

Can someone please clarify why USNA only takes into account English and Math ACT scores, while USMA equally factors the subdomains : English, math, reading and science? What is the reasoning?