November 2005 Blue & Gold Officer's Notes

Cindy Miller '90, Area B&G Coordinator

In Georgia, there have already been a few early offers of appointments to students for the class of 2010. 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 make every effort to arrange it. We usually have midshipman coming home to all areas of the state, not just Atlanta.

If you know of a student that is interested in USNA, feel free to contact me and we can get him or her started in the right direction for an application. As Blue and Gold officers, we often start talking to interested students when they are in their sophomore year in high school. It is critical that the students take the right courses in high school in order to be competitive for USNA. If you would like to know more about becoming a BGO, please contact Cindy Miller at cindymiller@1990.usna.com or 770-650-8921.