<p>Any word on when the large group of “offer of appointment” will go out?</p>
<p>The majority will be sent in March, keep those fingers crossed!</p>
<p>Coming up soon! I think they should be within a week or so. Hang in there! Funny how you don't hear much about the incoming class up here on the hill...</p>
<p>Wow, when you say a week more... do you mean like we will get them in a week or they go out in a week?</p>
<p>haha, it'll get there when it gets there! calm yourself :)</p>
<p>I believe I received mine this week or the next back in 2006....wow that was awhile ago!</p>
<p>I thought the mass offers already went out.. I got a call a week ago so I figured everyone else did too.</p>
<p>By looking at the list of recent appointments in the "Congratulations 2012" thread, it seems like a bunch have been sent out recently. I also recieved mine within the last two weeks. However my ALO said that by the end of March most of the letters will have been sent out.</p>
<p>So keep checking your mail box - You should be hearing something really soon!</p>
<p>the first thing that I do everyday after school is check my mailbox ^^</p>
<p>DS spoke to his regional and ALO last Thursday...here is a paraphrasing they told him:</p>
<p>They are hoping to have all of the 1st round prep and appts. sent out by the 1st of April. After that, there will be offering to people who are the next highest on the slates from those who turn down the appt. i.e look at the lists, there are several people who have applied to more than 1 SA, so when they turn the appt. down, they will go to the next on the list, until they hit their magic enrollment number.</p>
<p>That being said, they cannot do the entire mass in the 1st week of closing the application process. Run the numbers. If they have to go through 2000 candidates, with 3 different regionals, that would be @700. in a 40 hr week, pretty hard to do. add in nat. noms they can slide them in several ways to make a puzzle. (i.e. pres., rotc which are not by region, but by national) it makes it even a littlemore complex. In certain states, the candidate gets only 1 nom, NY comes to mind, so the applicant either gets a WCS high enough to obtain the slot, thus an appt., or goes into the national pool. I believe there is even someone from here who went up against 3 for their MOC source, there is another who was the only 1 that the MOC put on his slate...thus, that is much easier to give the appt. Yet, if your state allows more than 1 nom, then it becomes harder.</p>
<p>Ex: Has a sen. and MOC, scores the highest for both, now which source do they apply them to? If they apply them to the Sen, then the 2nd highest on that MOC gets it, but what if the 2nd highest has a pres. or rotc? Now they have to look at the national board, which would effect the other regionals list.</p>
<p>It may seem like an easy way, have the highest WCS win the appt., but there are a lot of variables. I still haven't add in the kids who turn back the appt., which some have already started to do. I.e. 2 from 1 state, 1 has a pres., and 1 has an MOC., next cadet with the highest has both a pres and an MOC, so they can slide them in, in 2 ways, again which way are they going to do it, because the pres. is national.</p>
<p>In the end, this is why they say get as many noms as you can. It may help you get in, it does not mean you are any more or less qual, but with only 1 nom, you only can only go into the pool, if you do not get the appt., and you score high enough. Whereas, the candidate with multiple noms, has more chances. I would think theoretically, in our state, you have 2 sen., who do not talk to ea. other and have many of the same kids on the list(actually almost identical). If ea. candidate wins their MOC, 2 would be given Sen., thus 2 would be taken off of the MOC's and the next in line would be given the MOC, but again what if the next one has a presidential, and they give them that slot, so number 3 on the MOC goes. Now, I say theoretically, because I am only stating how it was told to me, I do not work on the board and do not know for sure, but it made sense to me, and my head hurt at the exact same time.</p>
<p>This is why it takes more than a week for the mass mailing to go out. It is a puzzle that they have to make The corners and sides are always the easiest pieces to put in, it is when you get to the shaped pieces, do you start to have to try to fit in.</p>
<p>Go take some aspirin, and watch the mailbox. :)</p>
<p>i'm new to the chat but have been trying to get into the USAFA and i have been calling the admissions office almost every other day trying to find out something and they finally told me today that my decision letter was sent out yesterday so it will either be here tomorrow or friday...on another note i have counselor Debra Smith who has been out for about two weeks if that had anything to do with the delay in mailing my decision for those of you who have her also</p>