<p>Theory2011: good luck! Practice, practice, practice! then relax!</p>
<p>As for rankings, each MOC is different. Some rank, some don't. Some pick a primary candidate then leave the remainder unranked. Some will be open and tell you, others will not. Don't waste your time trying to control something that is not in your control to begin with- with ONE exception.</p>
<p>What IS in your control is how you perform. Theory has the right idea- review what has been posted (lots offered terrific advice) and practice, practice, practice. Be confident- again, practice helps. Then when you get there, take a deep breath and RELAX. Let them see who YOU are. Have faith in yourself- and in them.</p>
<p>This is a stressful time. It gets even harder folks, especially when the nomination decisions start rolling out, followed by those letters of appointment. The best way to ride out this rollercoaster is to keep focused on what really matters- grades.</p>
<p>best of luck everyone!</p>
<p>^^^^^
My son received the same e-mail message yesterday. It stated:</p>
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Congratulations on being selected to be interviewed by Senator Allens Academy Nomination Committee. Selection for an interview indicates you have an outstanding record. </p>
<p>Senator Allens Nomination Committee has reviewed 291 candidate applications and selected some 80 candidates for interviews. There will be four interviewers with each panel interviewing approximately 20 candidates. Each panel will interview candidates for one academy. From the candidates interviewed, Senator Allen will make one primary nomination and up to nine alternate nominations to the Military, Naval and Air Force Academies. In addition, he will make up to 10 nominations to the Merchant Marine Academy. The interview is the final part of the Nominations Committees review process.</p>
<p>Your appointment has been scheduled on Saturday, November 18th at 3:10 p.m. You will be interviewed for a nomination to the United States Naval Academy. Interviews will take place in Mifflin Hall at Fort Lee, starting at 8:30am and finishing at approximately 5:00pm. You should report to Mifflin Hall, Room 245, approximately 15 minutes prior to your scheduled interview time. The interviews will take approximately 20 minutes. While youre being interviewed, anyone accompanying you to Fort Lee can stay in the interview reception area or visit the Quartermaster Museum and/or the Army Womens Museum, across the street from Mifflin Hall. We highly recommend that you also visit the Museums while you are at Fort Lee to gain a fuller appreciation of military heritage.
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<p>Congrats, GreatAmerican!</p>
<p>That makes three - your son, myself and my best friend!</p>
<p>Good luck to him!</p>
<p>P.S. penQuinz - I guess that makes two crazy people on this forum?! :)</p>
<p>Thanks again to everyone for all the great interview tips....my son got the call from the senator's office today after an interview last Friday afternoon - it was a much quicker decision than we expected!! </p>
<p>It was actually a voicemail...I heard a loud shout "Mom, Mom, I got a nomination!" When my son called back to thank the senator's coordinator who left the message, he was told that one of the interviewers, who has been doing this since 1998, told her that this was one of the most competitive pools he has ever seen. I heard that there were 200 SA nominations packets submitted to their office with 70 for USNA!!! (this is for Georgia, btw!!)</p>
<p>He called his BGO who was thrilled - the guy has been so supportive. </p>
<p>He still has another interview with our representative and was wondering if he should still go - the BGO told him yes!</p>
<p>The only concern we have is that although the BGO told him he went before the board and was 'qualified' (that was about 3 weeks ago) he never received a letter from USNA stating that he was qualified...I trust the BGO, but a document would be nice to have! Does anyone know if you get a letter?</p>
<p>Thanks again,
Happy, sleepy, jerseynbg!!</p>
<p>Our BGO told us of the positive academic qualification about a month before a letter came from USNA Admissions office.</p>
<p>^^^^^
Ditto socaldreamers' post.</p>
<p>He still has another interview with our representative and was wondering if he should still go - the BGO told him yes!</p>
<p>Absolutely GO! The more nominations gives the Academy more slates to evaluate you within. Remember that to get the nomination through the MOC route you need to be at the top of the slate after the Academy reviews your MOC's nominations. (That is assuming that the MOC doesn't send the nominations in with a primary or ordered) </p>
<p>What district in GA? Son also heard within a few days in GA from both one of the Senate offices and from Congressional. Second Senate office he heard from about a week and a half later.</p>
<p>Congrats Jerseynbg!</p>
<p>^^^^^^^^^</p>
<p>double ditto of GA's post on my son's stuff.</p>
<p>Prof - district 6, Tom Price - very competitive, Cobb County...what year is your son in?</p>
<p>USNA 2010</p>
<p>6th is Probably the most competitive district in GA...
Which highschool?</p>
<p>^^^^^ profmom2: think that post was meant for someone else- we are district 2 in NY!</p>
<p>Navy 2010: post was for Jerseynbg ( post immediately above mine) who asked which class son was in and I responded as USNA 2010.... sorry if you thought it was for you.</p>
<p>Jerseynbg: Son is a plebe. Good luck with your interview with T Price's committee. Interviews in GA seem to be about a week earlier this year than they were last year. Last year we knew all of the results buy Thanksgiving including the Appointment. Which Highschool?</p>
<p>I did not know there were more people in GA. I'm in 8th district. Did your son have an interview with Chambliss' office. I got a note saying that they were splitting them up this year and you could only get one nom from on senator as opposed to two. 8th district doesn't actually seem to be that cometitive. Then again it's really really liberal. And small-ish.</p>
<p>My son had his Senatorial interview this past Saturday, 4 days later he received a phone call from the Senator's office stating that he had received a nomination to the AFA! The Senator's office was only willing to grant interviews to one Service Academy per person (your 1st choice). But just after interviewing for the USNA, a member of my son's panel was seen talking to the head honcho who subsequently invited him to stick around and interview for the Air Force (his second choice). His guess is that the panelist told the big cheese that he wasn't going to make the cut for USNA but would be a strong candidate for USAFA. The senator had only 10 slots for Navy this year but had 20 nominations for Air Force force - (jackpot!), this undoubted helped my son get his nomination as they only had 30 interviews scheduled for AFA. My son sat in a chair in plain view of all the panelist's walking by for 2 hours waiting for the Air Force panel to convene. He received pleasant ribbing from the officials similar to 'are you still here?' to which he replied "Yes Sir!". He told me that his interview with the AFA panel "could not have gone any better."</p>
<p>My son's congressional district ranks #1 or #2 year in and year out for the number of candidates accepted by the AFA (we live in the #1 ranked county in our state for SAT scores and has an unusually large number of airline pilots). This means that AFA nominations in my district are very competitive - so it is fortunate that my son was able to score his AFA nom from the Senator as he is now well positioned to receive a USNA nomination in this less competitive congressional pool of applicants.</p>
<p>1 Nomination in the bag, 1 more to go and 1 chance left to get it. One chance is all you need. </p>
<p>The other Senator took a pass on my son and did not grant him an interview.</p>
<p>Profmom2 - he is at Lassiter. Are you from Walton?
Chessdad - where are you? Sounds like we are neighbors too! Congrats on USAFA!! Our 'second' senator took a pass on my son as well - I heard from one of his board people that they were interviewing several people with perfect or near perfect SAT scores!
On the qualification letter - BGO advised on 10/4 so I guess maybe a letter should arrive soon...no matter... we are very focused on this weekend's interviews.</p>
<p>We live in Peachtree City, Fayette County, GA. Please forgive me if I am wrong about being #1 on SAT scores. When we moved to GA 6 years ago, we were told that our County was #1 county in Georgia in education. If I am wrong, I am not wrong by much. Although Lassiter and Walton's reputations are well known down here.</p>
<p>I'm not sure why he didn't get an interview with Sen. Chambliss. Another person in his class said she received interviews w/ both Isakson and Chambliss and according to my son she had the same SAT scores. She didn't apply to USNA however - maybe that's it. Academy Directory for Senator Isakson told me 5 months ago that my son would need at least a 1300 SAT to be competitive. I thought that with a 1360, he would be good to go for both Senators (at least as far as an interview is concerned.) Senator Isakson's office ran a class act on interview day.</p>
<p>Things are going well nomination wise, I still think my son will need a good deal of luck to get an appointment - but one step at a time.</p>
<p>Still no word from our congressman about whether or not he will get an interview, just a letter that said "we have your application and we will let you know whether you get an interview by Nov 16th. If you get an interview it will be December 9th."</p>
<p>-FoF</p>
<p>jerseynbg, Chessdad and GlitterHairDye: last year son interviewed with both Senator offices however we heard through the grapevine that they collaborated on the nomination so at most in GA you could only get 2 MOC nominations. Never did have that confirmed. </p>
<p>This year GA has 38 plebes. I do not know the breakdown from each Senator or Congressional district although the majority of those accepting appointments are form the metro area. </p>
<p>Good luck on your remaining interviews.</p>
<p>ProfMom:</p>
<p>Yes, it is true. I received a letter recently from Senator Chambliss saying that his office works with Senator Isakson's office to ensure that as many people as possible have a chance at a nomination. I don't think it's very fair or competitive, since academies look more favorably at an applicant with several nominations, but, oh well.</p>
<p>I guess it might be fair though if you're all playing by the same rules there?</p>
<p>We've not heard of multiple nominations over the past years. All apps ask who else student is applying to and we've been told they all "talk."</p>
<p>Each state does their own thing so then the "rules" depend on where you are from and the Academy can't do anything about that. </p>
<p>At the parents brief at the CVW we attended last Jan. that was a big part of the discussion as to each state and Congressional district doing thing differently. It doesn’t seem fair but then when you are dealing with congress what does? The Academy likes multiple nominations because it gives them multiple slates to evaluate you on. They feel that way they can get the best class possible. It is not that you “look” better because you have more than one nomination it just gives you another opportunity to be ranked. In the end you only get one appointment from one nomination.</p>