Nervous in Newton

Its been over 5 months since I submitted EA application. Its been a ride, and still hoping receive a random # phone call or wake up one day with good news in my portal. I suppose the best lesson I learned in the past 5 months is patience.
 
GrilledCheese94 said:
According to the 2021 USCGA Diversity Report to Congress (chart on page 6), 51% (138 of 265) of the Class of 2024 that reported for Swab Summer were recruited athletes.

It’s been my observation that USCGA relies heavily on recruited athletes due to the small size of the entire school and the desire to remain as competitive as possible regarding D3 intercollegiate athletics.

Anecdotally, we were told on more than one occasion that a lot of EA appointments go to recruited athletes.
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Understood and aware that half the cadets are varsity athletes at the Academy. Just telling you what we were told by the coach - that being a potential athlete at USCGA is secondary to your potential to be an officer in the USCG. Good luck everybody.
 
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LTEB1510 said:
If it makes you feel better, interest in USCGA was a late decision for my son, so while he could have had his application in for EA, it really needed the extra time. The coach said it's better to go regular decision and have the application exactly the way you want it, so that's what we did. He is currently at the academy and very happy.
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My daughter too. Coach told her to hold off and make her app the best it could be. The wait was pure torture. Currently she is a very happy and successful cadet at CGA
 
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Northwoods said:
I about wore out the F10 key (refresh) when I was waiting on the results of the Professional Engineer exam when I took it 11 years ago. That was pretty high stakes, wife was due to give birth to #4 a few months later so retaking was ... unattractive.
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Lordy, THAT sounds stressful. I'm stuggling to believe the waiting could go on for another week....
 
I posted this on another thread but wanted share some info. My kid is a recruited athlete and heard from their CGA coach over the weekend. The message from the coach was basically to just keep hanging in there, that it's a drawn out process. So hang in there everybody!
 
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