October/November 2003
Blue & Gold Officer's Notes

Cindy Miller '90, Area B&G Coordinator

LOAs, Mid Visits, and Application Deadlines

In Georgia, there have already been a few early offers of appointments to students for the class of 2008. These “early offers” or LOAs as we call them in the Blue & Gold Officers community, are as a result of other schools taking our highly qualified candidates before we could offer them appointments. Other schools, like Harvard, Yale, Georgia Tech, etc… notify their highly qualified candidates that they are accepted to the school before Christmas. USNA, along with the other military academies, used to have to wait until Feb/Mar in order to process the nominations and offer appointments. All the military academies are now offering these “early offers” to their most competitive candidates. An LOA states that if a student is medically qualified and receives a nomination, they are accepted to USNA. USNA does not send out many LOAs, it is very selective.

During the week of Thanksgiving, we are going to have numerous midshipmen come home to Georgia early in order to talk to students at local schools. This program is open to midshipmen with strong grades and good conduct and PE grades. The midshipman will be allowed to leave the Friday before Thanksgiving, giving them a few more days of leave than other mids. If you would like one of these midshipmen to come and speak at a high school or civic group, please let me know at the below phone/e-mail and I will try to arrange it. We usually have midshipman coming home to all areas of the state, not just Atlanta.

If there is a rising senior in high school that you are aware of who is interested in attending USNA, they are behind the power curve and need to get moving very fast in the application process. The student needs to go on-line to www.usna.edu and under the Admissions section, register for an application. The senior also needs to start the process to obtain a nomination by contacting their Georgia senators (The honorable Chambliss and Miller) and their local U.S. congressman. Many local congressmen and the senators have deadlines that are October and November.

A BGO is a USNA Blue and Gold Officer. BGOs perform counseling and interview students that are applying to USNA. A BGO performs a very important and needed service to the Academy Admissions office by providing a face-to-face interview with the candidate and evaluating the student for their true desire to attend USNA and serve in the Naval service. If you would like to know more about the program or if you would like to help by becoming a BGO, please contact Cindy Miller at (770) 650-8921 or cindymiller@1990.usna.com.

Cindy A. Miller ’90

October/November 2003 Blue & Gold Officer's Notes

Cindy Miller '90, Area B&G Coordinator

LOAs, Mid Visits, and Application Deadlines

October/November 2003
Blue & Gold Officer's Notes