<p>I've heard mutliple times where the admissions board would consider a candidate, such as for a LOA, where its conditional upon medical and physical. Does this mean they put every case before the board upon completing the actual full application, without medical, physical, or bgo?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Last year, when we got the LOA in early OCT....the back of the sheet listed medical, BGO and nomination as the 3 things still left to complete. ( in our case, both the BGO and medical WERE completed already, so all we had left was the nomination even with this letter) ...so this means except for the BGO....everything that one finds in the online application - SAT scores, personal statement, teacher's evals...those have to be in and then your application goes before the Admissions Board. I recall that in August we were getting calls from both Medical and Admissions directly from USNA, wanting our daughter's application and DoDMerb started, completed....now we know it was because they were wanting her to go before one of the first boards for consideration.</p>
<p>hope our past history helps you out</p>
<p>good luck!</p>
<p>We were just going through some stuff and I found a letter that said "Congratulations, you have been awarded a Presidential Nomination and are now eligible to compete for an appointment." The letter was dated December 4 and the appointment letter was dated Dec. 19. So when you are eligible to compete, they should send you something similar, judging from our son's experience.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Son received a letter early October that he was "academically" qualified to compete for an appointment. LOA followed within a week.</p>