<p>Ok, our son is still waiting to hear about an appointment. He has excellent stats and I’d be surprised if he doesn’t receive an appointment. But just in case…if the board considers you and decides not to offer an appointment, do they send out a reject letter?</p>
<p>Yes. When I talked to someone in the admissions office earlier this month they wanted to be finished with their decisions on March 31.</p>
<p>So, some of the students who receive appointments will turn them down. Do they go back through the rejects and offer them appointments as these slots become available again?</p>
<p>Yes, mostly to those in the waiting list - which is ranked... from what i have heard</p>
<p>USAFA does not (to the best of my knowledge), though, tell you that you are on the waiting list. Most of the "late" appointments I've known originally got a rejection notice and then later received a "call out of the blue" (sorry for the lame pun) and were asked to report--some as late as the day before BCT started. I know one full colonel that has his rejection notice framed in his office... He graduated in '84 and was promoted 2 years early to "full bull."</p>
<p>Yes, the same thing happened to my friend. My friend, whose a doolie right now, was rejected at first. Two weeks later he was accepted and asked to report.</p>