<p>Flip side: what’s the latest anyone had heard of someone either applying and getting in and since June 28 is just around the corner, hearing that they are in and reporting? We’ve had a couple discussions of LOAs and all the eager beavers out there. Being a cynic, I would guess a super football player or similar. There were stories out there of guys on waiting lists showing up and getting in. Any true tales out there to give some out there some hope?</p>
<p>After I-Day. Seriously. A couple of years ago, USNA took 9 students about a week after I-Day. They took the place of kids who didn’t show up for I-Day or quit the first day (yes, it happens). Apparently, this practice was relatively common in the 60s. </p>
<p>I don’t know if this will ever happen again, but it did once in recent history.</p>
<p>That is so bizarre. I never in a million years would have guessed that they’d do that, or (as has been reported) picked up waiting-list candidates from outside the main gate on I-Day to replace first-day dropouts.</p>
<p>Just weird…</p>
<p>I think the waiting list outside the gate story is a rumor, loosely based on fact. I was at USNA doing my BGO training the week that the late appointments happened, which is why I’m familiar with the story. Here’s the facts as best I recall them:</p>
<p>When the current Superintendent was a mid, it was not uncommon to “replace” plebes who dropped out on I-Day. The new plebes got a week of individual instruction, designed to bring them up to speed, and then were integrated into their class. For whatever reason, the practice fell out of favor.</p>
<p>The Supe brought it back – for one year, at least. How did they pick “replacement” plebes? They chose people from states that were underrepresented at USNA, people who were oh so close to being admitted, etc. </p>
<p>Well, one of those chosen just so happened to have showed up on I-Day in the (up to then) mistaken belief that he might be able to take someone’s place. I don’t know if he made it back home before he was notified, but it didn’t happen on I-Day.</p>
<p>I should make VERY CLEAR that the fact he showed up on I-Day was NOT a factor in his being selected; this was emphasized repeatedly. Other folks showed up on I-Day trying the same stunt, to no avail. </p>
<p>So, anyone who is thinking of showing up on I-Day in the hopes of getting in at the last moment – DON’T! First, I don’t believe they’ve repeated the practice of replacement plebes and showing up on I-Day won’t make a difference even if they do. If your heart is still in attending USNA, put your efforts into reapplying.</p>
<p>And that, ladies and gentlemen, settles that. :)</p>
<p>Thanks, '85!</p>
<p>A book you guys would find interesting, to an extent, would be Recruiting Confidential by David Claebaut. It follows a high school football player getting recruited to colleges who ultimately commits to Navy. He shows up for I-Day but refuses to take the oath, claiming he feels bad because he’s there only to play football. I, to say the least, chuckled. </p>
<p>PS I’ve been lurking for awhile on some SA boards and I must say that Zaphod rules.</p>
<p>Thank you, sir (ma’am?). I’m flattered. :o</p>
<p>Careful, though. Some folks here will disagree with you. ;)</p>
<p>That football player should have been drop-kicked out the main gate by the Supe on live TV. :mad:</p>
<p>Seriously, someone who didn’t know what he was getting himself into is just ignorant and is just wasting oxygen.</p>
<p>I find it worse than that.</p>
<p>There is no possible way you can get to I-Day and legitimately not know what you’re getting into or why you’re there.</p>
<p>That SOB took the slot of another kid who would have given anything to be there, and for NOTHING. I find that completely inexcusable.</p>
<p>Most of the interviews I went to…</p>
<p>Interviewer: You DO understand that this is the MILITARY, correct?
Me: Yes, sir.
Interviewer: Okay, good, because we get people who make it to the academy and somehow don’t realize that it is the military. I don’t get how they don’t realize it. It IS on all of their papers. I wonder how people actually get through all the paperwork and don’t understand that this is the military.</p>
<p>It is because they apparently cannot relate the word “Naval” with “Navy,” which as I said above is ignorant, or as my parents’ friends in Louisiana would say, ignant (no offense to anyone down there) Anyone who doesn’t know the Navy is military is just plain stupid, to put it nicely. VERY nicely.</p>
<p>believe it or not, no belly-button-rings are issued at the naval academy.</p>
<p>Before reporting for Indoc last year, my son and I went to the local police dept. for finger-printing as part of the Naval security requirement…the gentleman who finger-printed my son, typed in "navel’ on the form!!!</p>
<p>There is a story (have been unable to confirm) that back in the early 80’s, the folks who printed up the diplomas wrote “Navel Academy”, and that no one caught it until they were being handed out. </p>
<p>The Administration supposedly ordered everyone to return them, but you can imagine how that went. Talk about a collector’s item! :D</p>
<p>But like I said: No confirmation, yet. :(</p>
<p>Was the printing company owned by a West Pointer? Hahaha.</p>
<p>Yeah, I agree. I wouldn’t show up hoping that they’ll see you at the gate. It will probably be a serious let down and an awful waste of money unless you live close. And if you live close I’d think you would be bothering the Superintendent and anyone else you could almost daily letting them know just how much you needed that appointment. While they may get annoyed, they would see how much you wanted it which COULD influence them, but I doubt it.</p>
<p>Reapply. That sounds about right.
If I didn’t get what I wanted thats exactly what I’d be in the stages of doing. (While heading off to either the Citadel, UF, or UM for a year)</p>