<p>Zero-</p>
<p>I have received an appointment and I am looking forward to seeing everyone on June 28th :). Keep us posted.</p>
<p>-APan</p>
<p>When am I going to hear back?!?!?! Ahhhh, I'm sooo impatient but I put in my application half an hour after midnight and I want to know now!
I wasn't worried about getting in until now...</p>
<p>yea i feel ya, the same thing here</p>
<p>Calm down guys!!!</p>
<p>You think waiting to hear about NASS is hard, just wait until youre waiting to hear if you received an appointment. That is when the waiting becomes difficult. Patience is definitely a virtue when it comes to this!</p>
<p>Yea I have definitely gotta back you up... This sucks I have been waiting for the past couple months and i'm so ready to know if I got in or not! Plus, it would definitely help because I could start finding tickets... When do the majority of applicants find out? Is it mid-March or April?</p>
<p>April for overwhelming majority.</p>
<p>Don't sweat waiting on NASS. It's one tiny check box on your BGO's interview page. Getting denied admission to NASS means nothing as far as the whole application process goes. I believe I read somewhere here that only a quarter of last years NASS participants took the full committment and accepted. Many of the others either quit the application process or were weeded out early on.</p>
<p>Hell...I didn't get into NASS...or a CWV my first time around...and I got a nomination, Triple Q'ed...It wasn't until April that I got my rejection letter. I really don't feel like NASS had any impact on my application. I still would have killed to go though...</p>
<p>so are u trying again to get into the Academy?</p>
<p>or what is next for you if u dont mind me asking?</p>
<p>I'm currently in NROTC at the University of Washington...reapplying to USNA.</p>
<p>Just got my CVW invite, still waiting on appointment.</p>
<p>just out of curiosity, which CVW?</p>
<p>Candidate Visitation Weekend. Oh yeah DMeix how you like UW? I love that place, and I have lots of friends around there. Helps when you graduate high school like 15 minutes from there. Oh and I am still waiting on my appointment. Oh well, off to sea I go soon.</p>
<p>i meant, which dates are your CVW</p>
<p>I'm doing my visit on April 07-08.</p>
<p>UW has been great so far. Some of my courses can be pretty tough, but all in all it's been fun. The ROTC unit is outstanding. We have some great staff leading us, as well as a very professional upperclass. I can't wait until Spring Quarter starts...I've been working out with the Marines, and I'll be able to go with them on their FTXs to Ft. Lewis on the weekends. I'm having a great time, but I'm still gung-ho for the Academy.</p>
<p>DM, If you don't mind me asking, what were you stats from last year, and how is this year helping you more?
I attended NASS, but have not gotten CVW, I'm triple Q'd, with a nomination....</p>
<p>zero-</p>
<p>High School Stats:
3.5 GPA
Rank : 115/886</p>
<p>ECs:
Boy Scouts (Eagle Scout on Dec. 1, 2002)
Sea Scouts
Cross Country Varsity Letterman
Track Varsity Letterman
Altar Server at church
Volunteer at YMCA
NHS
German Club</p>
<p>Summer Job:
Boy Scout Camp Strake
Waterfront Area Director
6 years</p>
<p>This year is definitely helping me because college is so much different than high school. I didn't think it would be too much different because, hey, they're teaching the same subjects, right? The workload and environment is completely different IMHO. </p>
<p>I feel ROTC may definitely give me an edge as well...the inspections there can't be worse than having three Marine DIs yelling at you at the same time after standing at attention for an hour...yes, this happened over the weekend...and I actually had fun...in a twisted kind of way.</p>
<p>Anyway...I just want to hear anything from the Academy...the stress of waiting on them and doing my classwork is overwhelming to the max.</p>
<p>I know how you feel DMeix, but at least you are already in a commissioning program. I am just adirty blue shirt right now and will hopefully be putting on Khaki soon.</p>
<p>I hope i'm not hijacking this thread, but i couldn't find a better place to ask.</p>
<p>Any females who have been to NASS, did you feel that you kept up adequately with the rest of your (predominately male) squad?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Hey Bass-</p>
<p>Personally, I kept up fine with my squad, but I was just coming out of track season and I really enjoy exercising. I beat some of them in the PFT. It's all about the shape your in when you go there (I advise being in good shape). I had no problem keeping up/surpassing some. Thats just my experience, but it seemed that most girls were fine. And dont worry about hijacking threads- they usually dont stay on one topic for long lol.</p>
<p>-Alli</p>
<p>hey bass-</p>
<p>I'm 5'2" 105 lbs...pretty small but yea I was able to keep up with the guys. They never once made me feel that I wasn't strong enough. They were also really good at motivating me to be just as good or better than them, especially on the PRT. What I did was found certain people in my squad who were roughly around the same fitness level as me, and silently competed with them, meaning in my head they were the enemy and it made me push myself so hard to be a little bit better!</p>
<p>bass - </p>
<p>I'm also pretty short and the running wasn't TOO much of a problem -- the three miler on the last day was a little long for me, but my squad was unique -- we had the slowest guy at NASS in our squad, so I didn't end up sticking out because he was there....</p>
<p>My roommate and one of my squadmates were probably the Iron Michelles of our Company (most fit/athletic) so I felt a bit pathetic next to them. Honestly, some of the athletic stuff, you'll be able to do and you won't know where the ability came from....I thought I would seriously die on pushups and ended up getting 45 (maxing is 50) whereas I thought I would be okay on mile run and was a little worse than average....</p>