I am totally wondering the same thing. I just sent an email to the ALO to see if he can clarify for us.
Getting a little confused with comments of the official AFA FB site. This is the site I have: http://www.facebook.com/USAFA.Official?sk=wall#!/USAFA.Official?sk=wall
If you have something else please link it. Nowhere on that site did I see it say anything about release dates and amounts.
Traditionally, this is the time that RD's at the AFA get very silent. I would be shocked that they announce the amount going out this week. They play it close to the vest.
Reason why is very simple.
I can bet my life that at least 3 of you have at sometime during this process contacted the AFA RD directly, or at least had your ALO contact them. FWIW there are probably about 400-500 ALOs. I believe there are only 9 AFA RDs...that's a lot of phone calls/emails to return.
To publicly announce that today 500 are going out over a site like FB would mean their phones are ringing off the wall and their email system would be bombarded.
I know you all want the answer. You all want to move on with your life. I am just getting a sense here that things are getting misconstrued.
It would be incredibly strange to publicly announce that number. Yet, than again they have new leadership and this might be their command approach.
Honestly, I would hate to be an AFA RD today regardless if this is true or not.
JIC...if you look on your portal it gives you the email and phone number for your RD....that is why I said if this is true, I would hate to be them today. AT least it use to give the RD phone number.
I wonder if the BFE's were actually mailed on Tuesday or Wednesday. If that were the case wouldn't people already be getting them? One of the other messages from the Facebook thing said to begin watching starting Monday. I would bet they are not shipping until Friday??
I wonder the same thing. We live an hour north of USAFA and I would have thought that we would have received the BFE within one day.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/AcademyAdmissions?sk=wall Be sure to click on "Wall"
This is a different facebook page than PIMA mentioned. PIMA, the one you have is for the USAFA facebook in general. Admissions has their own FB page with lots of info posted via the Admissions Office. Look for the post on Tuesday, March 22nd. If you read the comments under it, they also state rolling Boards will meet through May.
This was on the USAFA ADMISSIONS Facebook page. It was posted at 1:04 pm on Tuesday, March 22nd. (I have not seen another posting after this regarding BFE's. ) ****UPDATE**** 400 Appointments just went out the door to be mailed out so keep an eye out at your mailbox. Congrats to those who already recieved one! Also the Application is now open for the Class of 2016!
RD=Regional Director.
For example every candidate is sorted out into regions and by last name. A candidate from NC that has a last name beginning with T will not have the same RD as the candidate from CA with A.
At least for class 2012, they had 3 regions, and 3 RDs in each region.
The amount of LOA's usually are 150-200 for the AFA, they are incredibly stingy compared to other SA's regarding LOA. Presidential can not top past 100 charges. What people tend to forget is statistically about 1/3 use Prin. nom. That could = @175 more.
Add those 3 together and you hit @375, close to that 400. .
Karek, prep and foundation do not go into the equation re:AFA apptmts numbers of 1150. 1150 is for AFA 15.
Karek is a poster's name further down in the thread.