Dear RetNavyHM,
I was directed here by a few people who advised me that you could give me invaluable information regarding my USNA waiver denial.
Just yesterday I found out online that my USNA waiver was denied. I am extremely upset and am willing to try everything and anything to get this overturned. This is exactly what my medical status says:
Agency: US Naval Academy
Current Medical Status ( as of 4/3/2007): Medical waiver denied
D004.00 - Orthodontic appliances
D155.71 - Myopia - Refractive error greater than - 6.00 diopters (sphere component only)
D257.70 - Unaided distant visual acuity worse than 20/40
D260.10 - Waiver Denied - USNA
Now I don't even know what I was denied for. I'm assuming it was for my eyes because my orthodontist wrote a letter saying it would be no problem for me to take my braces off it I went to the academy. I think it's because my eyes are so bad. I know you've answered this question a few times on this forum so I apologize I would just like to make sure I'm absoltely sure as to what to do. Please advise me. I think I'm supposed to send a letter to dodmerb asking them to review my case again. I don't have any new information though. I was thinking the best I could do would be to get a letter written by my eye doctor telling them that I am not at risk for serious eye problems and that my vision is 100% correctable to 20/20. Should I also send a letter to the academy expressing my deep wanting to attend USNA. I want to do as much as I can but I want to make sure I'm going the right thing before I do.
It really sucks also because my right eye is just -4.75 but my left is -6.00. I know -6.00 is the cutoff but does that mean you have to be less than 6.00 or you have to be 6.00 or less. Looking at that wording for D155.71 it seems like I shouldn't even have that considering I don't have a refractive error greater than 6.00. Wow I actually just realized something. The Eye doctor which dodmerb told me to go to told me that my personal eye doctor was wrong and that my eyes were worse then what he has said. So I went back to my doctor to get a new prescription and he told me that the other guy was wrong and that I'm really only -6.00. So now i'm seeing that the dodmerb doctor told usna I have worse eyes than my doctor thinks I do. This seems like a light at the end of the tunnel. Now i'm really thinking I should go to my doctor and have him write a letter explaining that I shouldn't have D155.71. Sorry for this confusion.
Thank you in advance for any information you can give me; I really appreciate it.
-Dean
I was directed here by a few people who advised me that you could give me invaluable information regarding my USNA waiver denial.
Just yesterday I found out online that my USNA waiver was denied. I am extremely upset and am willing to try everything and anything to get this overturned. This is exactly what my medical status says:
Agency: US Naval Academy
Current Medical Status ( as of 4/3/2007): Medical waiver denied
D004.00 - Orthodontic appliances
D155.71 - Myopia - Refractive error greater than - 6.00 diopters (sphere component only)
D257.70 - Unaided distant visual acuity worse than 20/40
D260.10 - Waiver Denied - USNA
Now I don't even know what I was denied for. I'm assuming it was for my eyes because my orthodontist wrote a letter saying it would be no problem for me to take my braces off it I went to the academy. I think it's because my eyes are so bad. I know you've answered this question a few times on this forum so I apologize I would just like to make sure I'm absoltely sure as to what to do. Please advise me. I think I'm supposed to send a letter to dodmerb asking them to review my case again. I don't have any new information though. I was thinking the best I could do would be to get a letter written by my eye doctor telling them that I am not at risk for serious eye problems and that my vision is 100% correctable to 20/20. Should I also send a letter to the academy expressing my deep wanting to attend USNA. I want to do as much as I can but I want to make sure I'm going the right thing before I do.
It really sucks also because my right eye is just -4.75 but my left is -6.00. I know -6.00 is the cutoff but does that mean you have to be less than 6.00 or you have to be 6.00 or less. Looking at that wording for D155.71 it seems like I shouldn't even have that considering I don't have a refractive error greater than 6.00. Wow I actually just realized something. The Eye doctor which dodmerb told me to go to told me that my personal eye doctor was wrong and that my eyes were worse then what he has said. So I went back to my doctor to get a new prescription and he told me that the other guy was wrong and that I'm really only -6.00. So now i'm seeing that the dodmerb doctor told usna I have worse eyes than my doctor thinks I do. This seems like a light at the end of the tunnel. Now i'm really thinking I should go to my doctor and have him write a letter explaining that I shouldn't have D155.71. Sorry for this confusion.
Thank you in advance for any information you can give me; I really appreciate it.
-Dean
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