I want to clarify my position.
I am going on the assumption that the portal has changed and USNA will be sending the BFE this week. If not, than I am with other posters. Move forward until the BFE is in the mailbox!
However if the BFE is in your mailbox tomorrow or Saturday, than I stand by my position.
1. You have the BFE, they are no longer your competition.
~ The candidate that gets charged to the MOC is your peer. They will be your brethren at the SA.
2. I believe that the committees interviewing candidates look at the WCS like USNA. Your record will speak for yourself. Plus, typically interviewers will pepper questions at you.
~ Candidate runorrun, it shows us here that you turned down your interview last year. Please tell us why we should give you the nomination this year?
~~ I contacted your office when I received my nomination from MOC A and told them as an LOA recipient I felt it was only honorable to remove my name since I filled the nominatiin requirement. However, other hurdles presented themselves and I am back again.
What interviewer seeing their stats would not honor them for esprit de corps if their stats are strong enough? Are anyone of ypu willing to say that the committee will play favorites and place a candidate with a lower PAR on the slate over the OP because the OP contacted the MOC the year prior and said:
Thank you for the opportunity, but currently I have the BFE in hand and would like another candidate to have the opportunity.
~ If the answer is yes they will, than you are all more cynical than me in this process. I believe because many of the posters here sit on the interview boards they would respect that and admire your actions.
~~ Okay, let me say, I would! I would admire that you put the service above you. You could have had three nominations, but because you pulled your name you allowed USNA to have more candidates to choose from to fill the class.
I am with everyone if the candidate did not have an LOA and a nomination in hand, but I don't see why to move forward if the BFE is in hand.
Runorrun,
My advice is to call your Admissions contact or at least your BGO before canceling. If they say yeah, we are finalizing the BFE, than why go?
You have a medical waiver issue, but that has no impact on the appointment process. DQ is a DQ!
~ Sean's DS got a waiver a year later, if I read their post correctly, but waivers are case by case. What is the waiver you need? Color deficiency is not easy. Asthma? Knee surgery?
This may all be moot if in the end your medical issue will never be waived. If you have researched the issue and you need at least two years to be waived, yet you are only 12 months out....than heed Sean's advice and do it.