freshavocado
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When does the Admissions Committee begin to meet and offer LOAs and appointments? What are the typical qualifications of someone who receives a LOA?
To solely answer your question, myself and one other person I know received LOA’s dated August 6th.
To solely answer your question, myself and one other person I know received LOA’s dated August 6th.
Congrats!! I have just received notification of my LOA too. Hopefully all goes well and we will be classmates come July!
Did you two happen to attend SLE?To solely answer your question, myself and one other person I know received LOA’s dated August 6th.
Congrats!! I have just received notification of my LOA too. Hopefully all goes well and we will be classmates come July!
Only a couple hurdles left in the admissions process. I'm certainly humbled.
Did you two happen to attend SLE?
Congrats! Can you clarify if you got your LOA via mail, email or Portal?
That's so exciting!
Too add to MidCakePa's comment.... even with an LOA nothing is guaranteed. Medical DQs happen, LOA recipients fail to get the needed nomination every year, injuries occur, etc, etc. Everyone should ignore the fact that there even are LOAs.... especially if they don't walk on water.Can of worms indeed! Folks, read the many threads here about LOAs. Then stop obsessing about them. Otherwise you are completely missing the point.
The goal is to secure an offer of appointment. Until then — and not a moment before, LOA or not — nothing is guaranteed. Carry on.
The one benefit of an LOA I have seen in our district is that one of the MOCs does a Principal Nomination and has historically awarded that Principal designation to a candidate with an LOA. However, it could also be that the candidate with the LOA has historically also been the slate winner by virtue of test scores, grades/class rank, athletics, extracurriculars, etc.
"Promised a possible LOA " -- what does that mean ? You either have an LOI, or you don't. BTW, USNA does not have Field Admissions Officers..USNA has promised a possible LOA within the next two weeks. He had a meeting with his Field Admissions Officer this week, who was extremely candid with him and gave him a lot of good advice.
> Right, and wrong. You are correct, that LOA candidate only needs a NOM, and doesn't matter if he/she is #1 or #10, but unless the MOC has room for more than one persons that year (each MOC can have 5 people at each Service Academy during a given year), the person who "wins the slate" can't get in if the appointment goes to the person with the LOA. (I don't know specifics at USMA, but there probably other ways to get that slate winneer in, including VP or Supe nominations).If the MOC is in fact giving a P-Nom to a LOA candidate, then that MOC just wasted his slot. A person with a LOA only needs a nom. They do not need to be the #1 on the slate. They can be the #10 on the slate. They only need to be on the slate.
I took it to mean he was verbally told they were considering an LOA but would not issue it until the CFA was complete. Seems odd to me too but stranger things have happened."Promised a possible LOA " -- what does that mean ? You either have an LOI, or you don't. BTW, USNA does not have Field Admissions Officers..