Awesome! My DS has his interview tomorrow and that will finish his application. Good luck!!
Good luck to your DS with his interview! My son really enjoyed meeting with and talking with his BGO; one of his favorite interviews!
DS has everything completed, which is, I'm guessing, why he's now CPR. He'll stay there for a very long time, but he can now stop checking to be sure everything's been received and processed. It's no indication one way or the other what his chances may be.
If that makes you feel any better. my DS application has been finished since mid-August, minus the nomination. It is still marked as “incomplete”. I am not sure what to do about it as USNA refers to that as a number of internal steps that they need to complete.
would you happen to know what triggered the application to go into CPR state?
I'm sorry, but I have no idea how anything in admissions anywhere works! He had some issues this summer with the portal, like a lot of folks I think, but his admissions counselor has been really helpful and responsive, and he's had most everything submitted for a while now (everything except the nomination). I think files are initially processed by/within each region?
My main concern is that technical issues are preventing admissions from seeing all the applications that has been completed. The calls to USNA admissions range from them telling DS that number of items is missing to that they have everything. The lack of consistency in responses is a real concern.
I think DS said about a week ago his admissions counselor verified they could see everything, despite not having everything checked off on his portal. Today everything was checked off and CPR. I really think he's only been contacting his assigned admissions counselor; I don't really know for sure, but he's been back in school since early August, so been busy with that and other applications now.
Admissions can see what is submitted. Whether the user facing portal reflects that is another matter.
How can admissions evaluate someone’s file for the purpose of extending LOA if such file is “incomplete” due to technical reasons? Also when candidate submits everything earlier (which isn’t a simple task on itself) and what at the minimum demonstrates commitment on part of the candidate, wouldn’t that be sufficient motivation for the admissions to complete their part of the process (which didn’t have to exist on the first place) and clear applicants file of any technical glitches so that the file is ready to review by the board for whatever reason. Whether or not that candidate would issued an LOA and admission is a secondary step, but at the minimum admissions would demonstrate willingness to not hold back the candidate who already demonstrated an effort.
I don’t disagree with you. However, with the type of technical issues that we everyone is dealing the candidates are at disadvantage since the data doesn’t show up in where it needs to be. Hence creating an illusion of an incomplete application.
If USNA has not confirmed that it is being hampered in its evaluations and/or determining whether an application is complete regardless of the candidate facing portal problems, it may be an incorrect assumption that a candidate has been disadvantaged. In any event, if there are systemic IT issues, then presumably this is impacting all candidates and thus not really a disadvantage in the "competition" to an appointment. My view is that candidates (and parents) don't need to worry about things they cannot control. Candidates should make reasonable inquiries and correct deficiencies they can control. Worrying about LOAs is something of a fool's errand - don't get caught up in that game. Don't worry about "illusions" of an incomplete application. Candidates will be evaluated and an application that is completed this early in the cycle will be evaluated in a timely manner.
To you. But not to USNA staff. To your point, an ILLUSION isn’t REALITY.
I think you missing the point. I agree that the completed app is NOT a requirement for LOA. However, the app that clearly shows gaps due to technical reason and inconsistencies in the responses from the admission staff is what concerns mean. As I have stated earlier. Those inconsistencies range from "we don't have X, Y and Z" to "we have received everything". if they have received everything, then why not just look at the file, check it for completion and push it to the next group? This needed to be done anyways and DS would stop calling and emailing about status update. This would just make everyone's life so much easier. At least at this point the application would be in the hands of the admissions and not glitched out server and its technical support staff. All I am asking is for the admission to make an extra effort and not block the candidate with an earlier submitted application due to technical glitches.
May I ask, what IS the latest word form admissions? Have they stated they have everything? As you say?