I went with my ds to one in Jan. It was great to have some facetime with them. You'll probably have a better experience with it being later.It is through admissions - Colonel Pipes will be there, along with a few others from admissions.
Why do you say this?You'll probably have a better experience with it being later.
It is for class of 2028 appointees and candidatesIs this just for appointed seniors I assume? If open to juniors I know one who'd love to go!
Don't lose hope - there are discretionary nomination sources the academies handle, so the game isn't over. I could be wrong about this part, but I believe an invitation to this is somewhat an indication of competitiveness. I don't think Colonel Pipes and the rest of the team would be in attendance otherwise. I also think this because I don't live anywhere close to Atlanta (or even in GA) and I don't think there are hundreds to thousands of spots to accomodate every candidate from multiple states.My DD was invited but she does not have a nom. : (
We went in Jan and admissions didn't have a lot of updates on the make-up of the class yet. They confirmed that all invited were competitive candidates, but couldn't tell us much more. Some candidates hadn't even been informed of noms yet. We were told to wait 6 weeks.Why do you say this?
It is indicative of competitiveness but admissions didn't know in the room who had noms when we went (and this was late, late Jan). They were happy to hear ds had a nom when we talked to them and said that was a great sign for admittance, but definitely not a done deal. I'm not sure they dive that deep into the apps when sending out invitations. Still, if a candidates file is open, they still have a chance.Don't lose hope - there are discretionary nomination sources the academies handle, so the game isn't over. I could be wrong about this part, but I believe an invitation to this is somewhat an indication of competitiveness. I don't think Colonel Pipes and the rest of the team would be in attendance otherwise. I also think this because I don't live anywhere close to Atlanta (or even in GA) and I don't think there are hundreds to thousands of spots to accomodate every candidate from multiple states.
DS received the invitation for the January one by email. It was called an USAFA Admissions Social.How did invitations to this arrive? Email or snail mail? We have not received anything...should I take this as a bad sign?