<p>BlackLab:</p>
<p>If you really want to know about your status, I’d suggest that you call Admissions and ask for your BGO’s name and your status as a candidate. The systems are pretty quickly updated, and if you are indeed an official candidate, your BGO will be notified that you’re in his/her portfolio of aspirants to USNA for 2013.</p>
<p>Every BGO is different in terms of when and how they make contact. For my part, I try to get an email out to the candidate or “contact and counsel” aspirants as soon as I am notified. My personal experience is that it usually takes a couple of emails and/or phonecalls to get a response from the candidates and to set up a time for the interview or counseling session.</p>
<p>But candidate or not, DO NOT delay on completing your nomination paperwork with your MOC and Senators, as well as the VP and any other sources you’re eligible for. </p>
<p>Here’s why: I have seen applicants - those who do not have official candidate numbers - wait to apply for nominations until they do have candidate numbers. A couple missed the MOC and Senators’ deadlines for applications for noms and were effectively shut out of the nomination process. </p>
<p>Forge ahead with those packets and get them done before school is over if you can. Especially important are getting the teacher and character references that most MOC’s and Senators require, as well as transcript requests. You can’t control that response time, but it’s better to do it now than to wait until school begins in August/September, in my experience.</p>
<p>Prep for the CFA - guidelines and instructions are on the USNA website.</p>
<p>Prep and retake the ACT/SAT as soon at your next opportunity.</p>
<p>Keep smilin’ ;)</p>
<p>D&G</p>