September 2003
Blue & Gold Officer's Notes

Cindy Miller '90, Area B&G Coordinator

Status for the Class of 2008

The admissions process for the class of 2008 is well underway.  USNA has mailed out almost 9,000 applications to students that have met the profile for possible admission to USNA.  There are a large number of students that have requested applications but will not been sent one until they become more “competitive”.

In Georgia, there are currently 295 students that have requested applications to USNA.  Of those, we have 15 that have completed their entire application and 33 that are over 50% complete.  USNA has begun reviewing completed admissions records and has begun to offer “conditional offers of appointment” to students in the class of 2008.  Conditional Offers of Appointment are only offered to a very small percentage of exceptionally qualified candidates and the offer stipulates that as long as a student is medically qualified and receives a nomination, they are guaranteed an offer of appointment to USNA.  The program of issuing Conditional Offers to candidates is a result of past situations where some of our top students were offered acceptance at other non-academy schools and accepted those offers before USNA even reviewed their records in March.

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. 

One of our minority outreach programs at USNA Admissions is the Center of Influence Orientation Visits.  This program pays for persons who are influential in the lives of minority students to come to USNA for a few days to learn about the opportunities available to all students at the Academy.  The person attending does not have to be minority, they only need to be in a position to help direct qualified minority students to apply to USNA.  If you know of a good candidate for this program, please contact Cindy Miller at the number/e-mail below.

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

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