<p>Show off your talents on the NASS app as best you can. Use the additional remarks/comments space efficiently to showcase yourself.</p>
<p>There are many NASS acceptees that simply didn't want to be there (practically forced by parents or other family/freinds to attend). So although academics are key to getting one of the 1800 slots, anything that can demonstrate other 'scholastic' achievement and motivation (including sports and EC's) could overcome some academic limitations.</p>
<p>You should try to contact and sit down with your BGO just before or immediately after you submit your NASS app. Your BGO can call down to USNA admissions to comment on your NASS application, which could also help you get in!</p>
<p>i followed a very similar plan to the ones described. i totally agree that you should apply for NASS on 1 FEB. stay up until midnight that night and do it! although i think that PSAT scores are important, (mine certainly helped me a whole heck of a lot), i don't think that bad ones are "disqualifying". and sports and leadership positions are SOOO important. </p>
<p>i did my entire NROTC/Marine application in May, and it was a lot easier to get recommendations done at that time than it would have been in the fall. i did the USNA app during the summer, and i think the final pieces (teacher evaluations) were submitted the first week in september. it paid off when i got my LOA sent on 27 september, so definitely get everything in as soon as you can. </p>
<p>good luck, and feel free to PM me with any questions. </p>
<p>Duke80 -- thank you so much for posting again after the thread was wiped out. You presented such a good timeline, parallel to what the rest of us have experienced-- and, colbyboss now knows who you are. </p>
<p>BTW -- I am a fellow "Viennese" -- lived there for 10 yrs during the Reagan Era...</p>
<p>Select Pre-Academy Info in the left margin of the home page, choose USNA Information Program of Southern California, then click on timeline.</p>
<p>In the fall of her junior year, my daughter became interested in USNA, applied and was accepted to Summer Seminar. That experience convinced her that USNA was at the top of her list. We had no political connections whatsoever and she ended up with two nominations: our local congressman, and she was named the principal nominee of a US Senator from California (most competitive nomination in the nation next to the other California senator and Vice Presidential nominations.) </p>
<p>Check out the timeline, it helped us. We also benefited greatly from The Naval Academy Candidate Book by W. Smallwood.</p>
<p>usna09mom: I too have just become interested a couple months back like your daughter, and im just hoping for the best</p>
<p>boston usmc: I plan on staying up all night as well!</p>
<p>Now for the letters of recommendation, im reading a lot of people are getting the teachers to email them? What does this mean, like are they emailing the letters to USNA or to you personally? Could we just explain to them our situation and have them type them up and hand to us? Can we then just make copies of the letters and send them out to the different people that need them?</p>
<p>Also, what must be included in the letter? Should it be USNA themed, as to saying, "Oh such and such is by far the best equipt for the challenges in joining and carrying out USNA . . . . " or is it just an overall view of the student the letter pertains to?</p>
<p>The Naval Academy application itself requires two recommendations--one from a math teacher, one from an english teacher (probably your 11th grade teachers). The USNA application is totally online, when you submit your info, one of the things it asks for is the email of your teacher recommenders. They then get an email and a link from the Academy to submit their info directly. It's all pretty easy and hands-off for you. I don't think my daughter has a clue what either the instructions OR the final recommendation looked like.</p>
<p>One thing she did do, though, when she asked for recommendations (or in this case, asked if she could submit their names) was to provide them with a cover letter (explaining her goals and suggesting that their comments on her leadership abilities would be useful) and a data packet (with some info on her overall accomplishments.)</p>
<p>Each of your Members of Cogress, though, will have different requirements for recommendations, and in Virginia, this gave my daughter some flexibiltiy in who she asked to provide information. It was to these people that her coaches, her science teachers, a local civic leader, and her headmaster offered recommendations. Some MOCs had evaluation forms they wanted filled out, some just wanted letters. </p>
<p>Until you know specifically who wants what, your best bet is to ask people if they would be willing to do a recommendation. Then, when your ducks are all in order, you can give them specific instructions.</p>
<p>Ah yes! Don't forget to put together a good profile sheet including why you want to attend USNA (or other NROTC, etc schools). Give one to all you recommenders as early as possible. Make sure you explain to your recommenders that they should not list your EC's, accomplishments, etc in their recommendations unless they have first hand knowledge or at least official knowlege/participation in such. They should stick to their experience with you.</p>
<p>No...they actually type it online. However, having something written ahead of time (can use similar for NROTC etc anyway) would allow easy copy and paste for some of it I'm sure.</p>
<p>Colbybus....Dad2b2010 is 100% correct....Now is the time to at least give a heads up to the people you will be asking for letters of recommendation or online application forms for them to do....It helps them be thinking and when you come to them they will be ready.</p>
<p>Our school counselor required something that at first I thought was really wierd: that both the student and the parent actually write, not just a resume, which was also submitted to her - but an actual letter of recommendation, listing all the things the writer felt were important to know about the person in question, even if it was themself. Then we submitted this as a packet to her and any other teachers - this - along with their own observations- helped them write a much more detailed personal letter of recommendation than the easily recognizable generic one that USNA must receive by the thousands. You might explore with your school/career counselor if this approach is helpful. As I read the finished products our daughter got for all her applications, including MCROTC - I realized that our input did help the writer craft a positive, accurate recommendation.</p>
<p>I should add that we have 3300 students and only 4 counsellors at our high school - hence the need for creative ways for these overworked people to give a personal touch to a student wanting something as important as a recommendation to a top University.</p>
<p>I am a junior in high school who is very interested in attending the USNA. My GPA is in the low to mid 90s,I play varsity field hockey and run track and field at my school. I haven’t taken my sats/act yet but i’m studying non stop and won’t personally accept under 1300. Mycurrent results for home administered cfa are as follows:</p>
<p>Bb throw - 30 ft
Pull up 1
Push up- 45
Curl up-60
Shuttle 8.8
Mile 7.47
(I am a girl)</p>
<p>I have nominations lined up and I was wondering what my chances for acceptance are. (i’m also taking several math and AP science courses, a sports reporter for my school paper and i’m an all new York state violinist playing since I was six) thank you please respond </p>