<p>Yeah man what the heck? I feel like they're just ignoring me. From looking at the stats of different acceptances, I definately have the same if not better grades, sats, extra curriculars, community service, and atheltics. I just don't get it. I come home everyday with the small glimmer of hope that there might be something in the mailbox. Alas, there is nothing.</p>
<p>Everyone seems to be forgetting recs and essays... maybe they put a larger weight on those...</p>
<p>wow JL2010 we seem to be in the same situation. I know exactly how you feel, I'm going through the same thing each day.</p>
<p>As for recs and essays, there is one thing that I think might have hurt me and that is that in my essay I said I planned to major in political science. Now I'm leaning more toward engineering, but then I wasn't. Perhaps even mentioning political science hurt my application. Wish I could do something about it...</p>
<p>bestwestin...don't count on that hurting your chances, I believe one of the Rhodes Scholars was a Poli Sci major.</p>
<p>In general, reflect on your BGO interview, maybe even call them up and ask how they evaluated you in the interview. If you went to NASS, remember that squad leader interview? It may have soem weight.</p>
<p>Man, I ranted and raved in my squad interview. I love it here. It's awesome, blahblahblah, all things that I thought, but I made sure she knew them. Did they actually score us and give us a ranking and it went in our file?</p>
<p>I believe 3 of 4 Rhodes scholars for USNA were political science majors. And don't worry about it hurting your chances because I told my BGO that I was interested in poli sci, history and econ, none of which are engineering or math/science majors.</p>
<p>d<em>b</em>h: Yeah, I am almost certain that you SL interview is made part of your app. I don't know about ranking, and I know it didn't have as much influence as our BGO interviews, but I think it ran along the same lines.</p>
<p>Hey, it's still early JL2010 -- If there were several competitive applicants nominated by your congressman, some have to be thrown into the general pool for later consideration -- That's what admissions said at the candidate weekend.</p>