Congressional Interviews

I got a letter in the mail yesterday saying my congressman would nominate a candidate based on the application form we filled out. Is it mandatory that they interview the candidate?
 
flyingcheetos said:
I got a letter in the mail yesterday saying my congressman would nominate a candidate based on the application form we filled out. Is it mandatory that they interview the candidate?
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Nope - I never did an interview for a nomination, I just filled out the application form. In my year, she didn't have enough people interested to need to hold interviews
 
USAFA10s said:
Nope - I never did an interview for a nomination, I just filled out the application form. In my year, she didn't have enough people interested to need to hold interviews
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That’s some nice luck since I come from a highly competitive area.
 
Drenns3 said:
That’s some nice luck since I come from a highly competitive area.
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In later years she had lots of interest and did hold interviews, but my district was historically not very competitive. I was the first one in something like a decade to apply to a service academy, and I went to a fairly large public high school (2200+ kids). It was certainly nice - I basically filled out a letter saying I was interested, sent my stats, and she called me a week later to nominate me.
 
USAFA10s said:
In later years she had lots of interest and did hold interviews, but my district was historically not very competitive. I was the first one in something like a decade to apply to a service academy, and I went to a fairly large public high school (2200+ kids). It was certainly nice - I basically filled out a letter saying I was interested, sent my stats, and she called me a week later to nominate me.
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The odds were in your favor! I’m sure you were also more than qualified but I’m surprised your high school was so big! What state is this? I’m just curious.
 
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Drenns3 said:
The odds were in your favor! I’m sure you were also more than qualified but I’m surprised your high school was so big! What state is this? I’m just curious.
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Haha - this was Oregon back around 2007, and ...I like to think I was also more than qualified, prompting the quick, very basic application turn around from her office ;) sure was a nice surprise as I was blindly fumbling my way through the application process (I already had an LOA, so this call basically meant an appointment pending being medically qualified)
 
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