April 2005 Blue & Gold Officer's Notes

Cindy Miller '90, Area B&G Coordinator

Georgia Admissions Update

Blue & Gold Officers are volunteers that assist USNA by performing the face-to-face interviews of students that are applying to USNA. For more details on the program, please see past articles in the USNA Atlanta Alumni newsletter or this web site, or contact Cindy Miller at (770) 650-8921 or cindymiller@1990.usna.com. We are in need of Blue & Gold officers in the Roswell/Alpharetta/Cumming area and in Macon. If you can help, please contact me at the above phone number or email address.

As the year is wrapping up for Blue & Gold Officers with respect to interviewing seniors, it is just beginning for the junior class. If you know of any junior who is interested in USNA, please make sure that they go to the USNA web site at www.usna.edu and under Admissions, register for the Naval Academy Summer Seminar (NASS). It is an online registration that opens up on 1 Feb 05. Admittance into the program is based on above average PSAT/SAT scores, good grades and a good record of sports and extra curricular activities. If a junior hasn’t taken the PSAT/SAT yet, they need to before the end of January in order to competitive in obtaining a spot in the summer seminar program. The program fills up very quickly so it is imperative that juniors turn their applications in as soon as possible.

The admissions process is going great this year for the state of Georgia. So far, we have 361 students applying to USNA from Georgia. This is a little lower than 426 at this time last year. To date, we have 3 students who have been offered and accepted appointments to USNA, another 5 have been offered conditional offers (this means that they will be offered an appointment once they have been cleared medically and have a nomination). We have 2 students who have accepted NAPS and another that has been offered NAPS. The USNA Foundation has recently mailed out applications to 5 Georgia students for participation in the Foundation program. Both NAPS and Foundation guarantee admittance into USNA next year upon successful completion of their programs.

Congressmen and Senators are required to submit their nominations to USNA at the end of January. After the deadline, we expect USNA to send out a lot of offers.

Cindy Miller '90