Admissions Counselor Change?

[Holden100]

DS had his BGO interview this week, which was the last piece of his application. He noticed today that he has a new admissions counselor listed on his CIS portal, with the nonspecific email for his region. Is that normal when you've finished the application?

 

[Dr. Strange Love]

DS had his BGO interview this week, which was the last piece of his application. He noticed today that he has a new admissions counselor listed on his CIS portal, with the nonspecific email for his region. Is that normal when you've finished the application?

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Sounds normal .... The AO email addresses are “Region Based”. They don’t change from year-2-year.

Your son’s AO hovers over his assigned region email account. If your son would like to email his AO, have him email his AO and Address him/her by name to the region email account.
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[Holden100]

DS had his BGO interview this week, which was the last piece of his application. He noticed today that he has a new admissions counselor listed on his CIS portal, with the nonspecific email for his region. Is that normal when you've finished the application?

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Sounds normal .... The email addresses are “Region Based”. They don’t change from year-2-year.

Your son’s AO hovers over his assigned region email account. If your son would like to email his AO, have him email his AO and Address him/her by name to the region email account.
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Gotcha, thanks. Will let him know. His previous counselor was super responsive and very helpful. He had a guidance counselor change over the summer, so emails had to be re-sent, and she was awesome. I think he's sorry to see she's gone now.

 

[usnabgo08]

Not abnormal. The admissions counselor are active duty officers, it is possible for them to go back to the Fleet or Marine Corps for another assignment, switch jobs within admissions, or separate from service. Normally during the summer is when such shifts occur. Bottom line, the change doesn’t really mean much to the candidate.

 

[Old Navy BGO]

^ What BGO08 said...don't try to read between the lines.

Sounds normal .... The AO email addresses are “Region Based”. They don’t change from year-2-year. Your son’s AO hovers over his assigned region email account. If your son would like to email his AO, have him email his AO and Address him/her by name to the region email account.

Not sure how this is presented in CIS, but BGO's have individual email addresses for both the Regional Director, and the Admissions Counselors. We get notices of staffing changes in Admissions, and as stated above, the summer is a common time for the junior officers to rotate. It shouldn't have any impact on applicants. Cycling in and out of billets is a normal part of Navy life, and by this point in their career, they have done it several times.

 

[Dr. Strange Love]

^ What BGO08 said...don't try to read between the lines.

Sounds normal .... The AO email addresses are “Region Based”. They don’t change from year-2-year. Your son’s AO hovers over his assigned region email account. If your son would like to email his AO, have him email his AO and Address him/her by name to the region email account.

Not sure how this is presented in CIS, but BGO's have individual email addresses for both the Regional Director, and the Admissions Counselors. We get notices of staffing changes in Admissions, and as stated above, the summer is a common time for the junior officers to rotate. It shouldn't have any impact on applicants. Cycling in and out of billets is a normal part of Navy life, and by this point in their career, they have done it several times.

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@Old Navy BGO .... I believe the Candidate can only see the AO’s Name and Rank, but the Email presented is not a personal email address, but it is a Regional address. Apparently, BGOs have far greater visibility.

Last year at this time in 2018, our daughter who is now at NAPS, had questions for her AO, and came to my wife and me confused by this very same scenario. We told her that this is fairly normal for Operational (Tiered group level support) email addressing.

We told her to say hello in an Email, and see what happens. It worked, and she was off and running.
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[usnabgo08]

Most likely the regional email is easier to monitor if someone is out of the office or on leave. Thus, the emails don’t sit in an individuals personal email account untouched.