<p>Yesterday=LOA
Today=Nomination from senator!!
USMA 2012!!</p>
<p>Hooah and congrats to you and your son!!!!!</p>
<p>I'm getting antsy to hear back from the Senators, its been about 2 weeks. It is my highest aspiration to get to West Point, and I hope the Senators realize that.</p>
<p>Is it unusual if I haven't heard from my congressman or senator period?</p>
<p>D heard back within 2 days of her interview with her congressman which was great. Her senators have interviews spanning 4 weekend days in various parts of the state so they won't announce until later in the month. Makes sense since the congressman's constituency is much smaller geographically/numerically than the senators. Both senators published their announcement dates on their websites so I would check there or make a phone call to their office to find out when they will know the results</p>
<p>Honestly, we were totally taken aback by the call. We expected to hear sometime in December. We called them on Tuesday to let them know about the LOA. I assumed yesterday's call was the office following up on my call. The representative was very sweet, asked to speak with son, then I heard whooping and hollering. The senators in GA had so many applications for nominations this year; son was happy to simply make the cut and get the interview. He was hoping for the nomination from the congressman, but even he had twice the normal number of applications. To get the nomination from the senator was an amazing, amazing gift. Son is still on cloud 9, and parents are right there with him! For those of you who have not interviewed yet: BE PREPARED!!! We set up a mock interview with some tough businessmen the night before and son was grilled. They made him answer over and over until he understood how to interview well. He went into this kicking and screaming (had to miss practice to be there). He said last night he felt like he got the nomination because he had such a great interview. Good luck to all of you as you press on!</p>
<p>Congrats!
Now - the rest of you - sit back, take a deep breath and relax!!! </p>
<p>Every MOC office is different - they generally need time to review all the applications and go over the interviews. I stongly suspect that those with LOA's are put on the "fast track" by some MOC's.<br>
In other words they know the only thing holding up the appointment is the nomination so they go ahead and notify.
They probably don't have their entire slate built yet.</p>
<p>Hopefully, in some correspondence or during the interview you would have received a "we will notify you by" date - although one senator my daughter interviewed with never sent a letter (he also lost the election).</p>
<p>While MOC's have a deadline to the academies of the end of January - I think most notify in December. Some MOC's who dont have enough to fill a slate will leave it open for late applicants until the end of January.</p>
<p>Last year - my daughter's congressman notified her via personal phone call. It was the Sunday before Christmas - she was out shopping of course!</p>
<p>Last year with my MOC, I don't recall ever having a 'notify by' date. The interview was on 16 Nov, and I received a phone call on 17 Dec from my Congressman himself. It was odd answering the phone (I wasn't even home for 15 minutes for the first time in about 3 weeks) and hearing a guy...not the normal female secretary from his office. Good times.</p>
<p>Anyhow...shortly thereafter, I received letters from my Senators telling me that since my MOC had nominated me, they withdrew my names.</p>
<p>So for me, the turnover was a month to hear. This year, one Senator said their board was meeting (no interviews) tomorrow and they would let me know in time for my Saturday interview. Exciting times are just around the corner...</p>
<p>Congrats to your son!!</p>
<p>Did he receive a nomination from Chambliss or Isakson?? I'm still awaiting a letter or call! I'm assuming they notified him by phone??</p>
<p>ONCE AGAIN CONGRATULATIONS!</p>
<p>Three questions:</p>
<p>1) Did you son have any remedials or disqualifications by Dodmerb? (I am waiting for eyesight waiver)
2) Did the LOA from West Point come in a small envelope or larger envelope?
3) Was your son the principle nominee or just one of the 10 selected and for what senator?</p>
<p>Nom is from Isakson. Nancy Brooks called the house late yesterday afternoon while son was sleeping! We thought chances were better with Linder, and didn't count on Isakson at all and are still in shock!! </p>
<p>-no remedials or DQs (he wears contacts, but eyes aren't too bad)
-LOA came in standard business envelope. Same envelope as the "we have you qualified in 2 areas and are awaiting dodmerb results." I assumed LOA was letter stating dodmerb had arrived.
-Have no idea if he was principal or one of 10. He didn't ask. I think he might be principal because Nancy said, "We'd like to offer you the nomination to West Point. Do you accept?" </p>
<p>Hope that helps!! I hope you get your call soon!!</p>
<p>My LOA came in a standard business envelope too, but the Admissions officer was the one to confirm that it was an LOA, he said it would be coming in the mail before I even got it. Agian, I wonder what the stats are for LOA's, regarding how many applicants get one, then are qualified, then nominated. I wouldnt doubt if there is about 1000 out there, and only about 1/3 get fulfilled. Just speculating though.</p>
<p>It is unusual for LOA recipients to be principal nominees. Most MOCs know that LOA recipients only need "a nomination" to be appointed, and so they don't allocate their principal nomination (assuming they do not use the competitive method) to someone who does not need it. That way another (non LOA) candidate can be accepted from the MOC's slate.</p>