Well, I appealed the decision because someone said it may have been because of my lack of having completed a physics credit when I originally applied. I sent in my new transcripts showing that it was completed, along with calculus 2 and chem. My GPA did drop to a 3.93 this past semester but I didn’t think it would be a big deal. My appeal was denied. I’m absolutely floored over this. I see other veterans with less hours and lower GPA’s have gotten in to the same program and I’m just completely confused. I can’t imagine that a single LOR would have made a lick of difference but apparently it has for others, so maybe I shot myself in the foot by not having some work-loaded professor crank out a generic LOR in between grading papers like they do for everyone else. So let this be a lesson to anyone applying in the future; get some LOR’s!