For applicants reading about LOAs and apparently pending appointments, resolutely “keep your eyes in the boat” and forge on with your application, especially if you feel like you don’t have much checked off yet on your To Do list.
Keep in mind the majority of applicants offered appointments never received an LOA, that Admissions uses these as class-building tools and can choose to give them for a variety of reasons, that every year there are candidates with LOAs who don’t become fully qualified with a nomination and do not receive an appointment.
Keep your eye on your goal, work your plan, tend your alternate plans, don’t look right or left at someone who gets an LOA whose (pick a stat) is lower than yours, go PT to bleed off stress, finish this year strong, spend quality time with friends and family. After all, you may be reporting to a service academy next June and after that, you are a visitor to your home and family for at least 9 years.
One step at a time. You have the power to control how you feel about things out of your control; it’s a life skill.