<p>Son has a call into admissions to try and determine why material that allegedly went out from his high school guidance office in late September/early October is still showing up as missing. He is also meeting with his guidance counselor again on Monday. Can anyone comment about the speed at which material (not web submittal) typically shows up on the status page as complete? His guidance counselor does not have the greatest track record with student material submissions to colleges, but before we hammer on her son wants to make sure it’s really missing. </p>
<p>Also the application page asks you to direct a web request to 3 teachers/other so that they can be sent a form link to fill out. Has anyone had an issue with “non .edu” addresses not being accepted? Son’s coach has an “aol” account and despite two attempts at filling in the form over the past month his coach has yet to see the request. His teachers received them so it’s working for them but not his coach. Son asked him to check his spam filters etc. </p>
<p>Last question; son showed me the instructions that speak to 3 letters of recommendations, not clear to me either if it’s referring to the 3 individuals designated in the email form link submission or they are asking for/will accept 3 letters in addition to those sent in as a direct part of the online application. </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>To answer you first question, I would also give a call to the guidance counselor he was assigned here at USAFA. The information, if I recall was usually updated within 1 week, but the guidance counselor can tell you if they received it before it shows up online. They were always very helpful to me.</p>
<p>We had trouble with one evaluation being done by email. Our admissions officer just had our son print out the evaluation (you can do that from your son's admission website), have the teacher manually fill the evaluation out, and fax it back to the academy. I would do that and forget trying the email way if you are having problems. Works and counts the same either way.</p>
<p>The transcript did not take long to show that the AFA had received it but it did take a while for it to show up as processed because they do alot with it for AFA purposes in scoring for the candidate's file.</p>
<p>The recommendation letters are in addition to the evaluations. They are not mandatory but certainly should be viewed as something to add positively to your son's file.</p>
<p>In reference to the recommendation letters. I am not sure what you are referring to. The only thing I have seen on the App is the teacher evaluation--where is the request for additional recs?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>If you look on your candidate page, you can look at the instructions booklet. In that document it states that you may send no more than three additional letters of recommendation if you believe that those will help your file.</p>
<p>I had an issue with one of my rec emails. I ended up just printing off the form and giving the teacher and a self addressed evelope. (I have had issues with faxing)</p>
<p>Two of RS's teacher evaluations didn't make it to the academy via email. They had to be faxed. RS's math teacher moved to a high school 1200 miles away, but his evaluation made it fine. They were all .org addresses.</p>
<p>Thanks for the input, son has a meeting today with his guidance counselor to go down his check list of what the web site shows as open. After that they plan on contacting the admissions office at USAFA to review.... hopefully it will finally be wrapped up. He also printed out a few copies of the form 145 to take in if they have to fax in the forms. </p>
<p>As a side note I can’t over emphasize the importance of starting this process as early as possible. We thought we were getting a jump on things (compared to our oldest son) with an August kick off….despite that, here we are just about to roll into November and a few things are still incomplete..</p>
<p>Follow up application question: </p>
<p>From the USAFA site: </p>
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*When you submit your application you become a "Prospect." When USAFA processes your application you become an "Applicant." Should USAFA deem you competitive and/or you receive a nomination, you will become a "Candidate." Note that you may receive a nomination and still not be deemed competitive by USAFA.
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Your Status: Candidate
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<p>Does this constitute a finding of scholastic qualification as in one of the triple “q”s? or does this simply mean you’re “qualified” to be considered and will be notified (or not) of scholastic qualification at a later date?</p>
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Does this constitute a finding of scholastic qualification as in one of the triple qs?
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<p>As far as I know, they only allow people who are scholastically qualified to appear as candidates. I find no reason for them to make someone who is not qualified scholastically (60% of the application) a candidate. So, rjrzoom57, I would say the answer to your first question is yes.</p>
<p>Semper,
Thank you.</p>
<p>While we wanted to assume that was the case what threw us was the part of the equation that I did not include in my question relating to his first/old SAT scores appearing on his app at the time when the "candidate" status popped up. As one of those (verbal) was shown in <*> as in "not competitive" we found the combination of the two findings: "candidate" and "not competitive" a bit odd as in how could you be found scholastically qualified when you had a non competitive score…..am I making sense?...</p>
<p>The good news is he has brought that score up so it’s no longer an issue but at the time of the candidate positing, that was not the case.</p>