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YoitsFly

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Has anyone heard of this and what it means? Has anyone received this and then got an LOA or appointment?
 
Letters of Assurance are occaisionally extended to highly qualified Candidates assuring an Appointment once a nomination is recieved. They typically come out in October/November to those who have completed their applications and merit early selection based upon the strenght of their individual profiles.
 
My understanding is that AFA has something below LOA - is that what you are asking about? I’ve read on this forum (you might want to do a search) about a letter that says we've preliminary reviewed your app and we intend to recommend you to the admissions board for an appointment provided you finish everything outstanding and meet all requirements. Some people have referred to it as a letter of encouragement. If you received one, I think it’s very encouraging!
 
Yes. I was told it is not an LOA but something else. It sounds like an LOA but isn't, so I was wondering if anyone else has received this.

It is definitely not an LOE. I have one from USMA and they are worded very differently.

The only thread on this document (I found by copying and pasting the first paragraph of my letter) debated whether it was an LOA or not and never gave a definitive answer. It wasn't named a Letter of Interest but it was a Letter of Interest because mine has the exact same format.
 
If you redact the identifying information and post the letter here, then someone may be able to best interpret its meaning.
 
Here's the thread. The OP has the exact same letter as me but mine says 2027.

Decision Letter in Portal

Received this letter as my decision on my portal yesterday and was wondering if anybody knew what this was. I don't think it's an LOA because it didn't say LOA on it... Here is the majority of the letter... Congratulations! Based on an initial review of your academic and extracurricular...
www.serviceacademyforums.com
 
After reading that past thread, it is a bit confusing to this USNA person. Whatever it is, it’s a good sign!!

Come back and let us know!
 
YoitsFly said:
Here's the thread. The OP has the exact same letter as me but mine says 2027.

Decision Letter in Portal

Received this letter as my decision on my portal yesterday and was wondering if anybody knew what this was. I don't think it's an LOA because it didn't say LOA on it... Here is the majority of the letter... Congratulations! Based on an initial review of your academic and extracurricular...
www.serviceacademyforums.com
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LOE, I think.

“Will be”
“Have potential”
Other carefully-worded language to encourage but does not promise. They like what they see so far, want to see more, so keep forging ahead on your application completion journey.

You are dating but not engaged. 😉
 
I was looking through OP's posts to see what service academy (if any) they were accepted to and I can't say with 100% certainty which one they attended. However, they did post that around February they had a question with accepting/denying their appointment to USAFA so it sounds like they might've received an appointment anywhere from December until early February.

Hopefully this is a good sign, but then again OP was accepted to Harvard and all the other SA and I am definitely not on that level so I could be reading into this letter too much.
 
Should I send this letter to MOC to prove that USAFA is interested? I have an LOA from another SA and they keep asking me why I want a nomination to USAFA and not the other SA and I hope that it's not hurting my chances of getting a nomination.
 
This wording has all the characteristics of the LOA my DS received from USMA last year. The "A spot in the USAFA Class of 202X will be reserved for you provided you meet all admission requirements, to include a qualified medical status." says that if you become 3Q, you are in.

Time to get ahead of the curve and get everything submitted. You do not want anything to slip through the cracks or have a medical issue crop up that has you chasing a waiver up to the last minute. Best of luck in your process.
 
I got the same letter yesterday. I thought it was a LOA and I was wrong.

I need the ALO interview, CFA and nom. I do plan on sending this to my nom interviews. I’m trying to get the ALO done but having a bear of a time getting anyone to return email and admission won’t provide phone number. Yes it’s frustrating.

I’m already medically qualified
 
GonavyCC27,

I am just curious, as a fellow applicant, what your credentials and ‘stats’ were since you got a LOA.
 
MooseDad said:
Letters of Assurance are occaisionally extended to highly qualified Candidates assuring an Appointment once a nomination is recieved. They typically come out in October/November to those who have completed their applications and merit early selection based upon the strenght of their individual profiles.
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Need to clarify a bit here. An LOA is a so-called unicorn — extremely rare and a sight to behold. But unless you work for admissions, it’s rather unclear the criteria used, the number granted, etc.

While many may go out in Oct/Nov, we read here of LOAs being sent all the way until June, with a bump in Feb/Mar. DD received one in February, one in March, one in very late April.

Many are for missing nom, but there are various reasons. Each of DD’s LOAs was for a very different reason. Only one was for a missing nom. The other two conditions were a complete surprise and a bit odd.

LOAs go to a much smaller subset than “highly qualified.” Many applicants fall into this category. LOAs go to a select subset that the SA deems “must have.”
 
bdave123 said:
GonavyCC27,

I am just curious, as a fellow applicant, what your credentials and ‘stats’ were since you got a LOA.
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It’s perfectly normal to look around and wonder what the “recipe” is that landed an LOA for a fellow candidate.

Keep in mind LOAs are discretionary class-building tools. The SA can choose how many, for whatever reason and when, to give those out. Most midshipmen and cadets never see one in their portal.

The usual advice here is for applicants to not look left and right at what others are doing. You can drive yourself crazy wondering how a candidate with a lesser “stat” than you got one and you didn’t. There is no recipe to follow. They don’t know why they got one, and you can’t see the totality of their application and how the SA viewed it.
 
USAFA refers to these as Letters of Interest (LOI).
As @Capt MJ said earlier, the way to tell is that the LOI is future tense - the Board has not yet met, so do these things in this time frame.
The LOA is past tense - the Board has met and now you are now given an LOA.
USAFA's LOI is extremely promising and sounds more like a badly cut & paste LOA turned into an LOI.
My DD got one too and thought it was an LOA.
In her cycle year, the LOIs were mailed, the LOA will appear in your portal, at least that was for the old application platform.
 
LOI appeared in portal for me, so maybe they switched to LOA mailed?

When does the first USAFA board meet? I thought they would have met by now
 
Capt MJ said:
It’s perfectly normal to look around and wonder what the “recipe” is that landed an LOA for a fellow candidate.

Keep in mind LOAs are discretionary class-building tools. The SA can choose how many, for whatever reason and when, to give those out. Most midshipmen and cadets never see one in their portal.

The usual advice here is for applicants to not look left and right at what others are doing. You can drive yourself crazy wondering how a candidate with a lesser “stat” than you got one and you didn’t. There is no recipe to follow. They don’t know why they got one, and you can’t see the totality of their application and how the SA viewed it.
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bdave123 said:
GonavyCC27,

I am just curious, as a fellow applicant, what your credentials and ‘stats’ were since you got a LOA.
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Hello bdave123,

I was incorrect. It was a LOI not a LOA.
 
Capt MJ, got it. Thank you for your advice. It can be stressful knowing I will have to wait for a bit to here back
 
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