murfthesurf
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My kid completed everything on Aug. 28th, That afternoon he also received the status "Complete pending review." just like you. No LOA yet, but he is not worrying.
You were not looked over. "Pending Review" means just that. Admissions is still making the sausage, some varieties are made quick, other varieties require more ingredients then are in the 'official' Application.
These additional ingredients were not officially written down for you to check off, they could be the variables that you may not be considering when you ask yourself "why I didn't get an LOA"? Suppose you are a great student but there are 1200 others equally as good RIGHT now? Ok, out of 17K applicants that begin the process the same day as you, it sure is possible 1,200 finished up admission packages by Sept. 1st and these were stacked with yours, all awaiting review. It is a physical process, wading thru stuff like this has a process that is spelled out; maybe your package was put aside because your 'edge' is the fact you are being recruited by Navy Coaching ? (for example) Imagine a process for the many in the 1,200 that are not being sports recruited? These could be some of the LOAs that issue because they were deemed a 'no-doubt' qualified kid?
For this example, many of these applications of recruited kids have a note placed in the package notifying the Reviewers of a request : 'If Applicant is deemed qualified and approved by Admissions, it is requested that Admissions kindly set package aside to await additional input/actions of Sports Recruitment' - that input to be incoming from a recruiting Coach who has placed the 'watch' tag on your file before you finished it. Certain Sports placed 'tags' on specific recruits packages in July and these Coaches (in charge of recruiting for a particular Sport) are actually notified by Admissions every-time the kid updates an item in his portal. The day the recruited kid sees the "complete pending review." in his Portal, rest assured, the Coach recruiting him has also received the notification. I can tell you that much information is fact.
Now to some educated speculation relative to any release of an LOA for a hypothetical kid being recruited- An LOA could easily be held up and be dependent on further input of the recruiting Coach. Perhaps this input will be the result of an upcoming CVW that has been scheduled. Lets say a Coach uses a scheduled CVW to also invite the kid to a " stop by and see me" meeting while attending the CVW. It seems to me an LOA could easily be delayed based on the results of that visit, the recruiting Coach 's final input being the catalyst of many actions that will occur after the CVW event. Perhaps it will trigger the LOA, maybe it triggers a usage of non-MOC nomination that will be set aside, the only way it is conveyed is verbally because if a later obtained MOC happens, there is no need to use the 'chit' and an LOA is issued just before the MOC nominations are released, or a decision not to issue an LOA, making the kid get a MOC like everyone else because the Coach decided to pass on the kid. Just saying , look at just these few possible scenarios.!
Let's face it, why is an LOA so desired? An LOA is the only *real* instant feedback a kid can get from this Institution, as it is in writing ! NO LOA? Then no feedback and a kid will not hear anything from the Institution until 2016 when the kid will get an envelope in the mail; thin or fat, it is as simple as that.
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