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Don’t do that. Submit an updated application if you have to but rescinding the whole thing isn’t the way to go. Even if you think the video hurts you, it’s not gonna hurt you as bad as having no video or application at all. Also if you’re worried about other units out there seeing it, you can change the privacy setting on there from public to “unlisted” so that only people with the link can see it.

Probably depends on your tone. If you said it in a kind of funny way I don’t think they’d hold that against you and might like it depending on your delivery. If you were dead serious, maybe not the best idea lol.

Definitely, I hope so too! Plus they offered to give us feedback, so hopefully that'll help us out. Between that and all the excellent communication they've provided, they seem like a pretty rad group of dudes. Big congrats to whoever gets picked up! Now to finally delete that video!

Yep just got mine. That bogidope consulting service is starting to look mighty enticing.

The sea is a salty place for a dog.

Have you gotten any feedback from anybody on your application package, whether it be board members or people around here?

Ooh sorry, I misunderstood you. In any case, hopefully they do get back to us so we can delete those YouTube videos already, lol. Now I'm gonna go ahead and clean up all these random downvotes that just rolled through here...

Did they contact you with a no?

I meant the opposite of what you meant but I suppose it can be open to interpretation. 🤔

Well you guys heard the man. TIME TO GO HARD ON OURSELVES! 😜

Negative. The suspense is tearing me apart.

Yeah man they called me this morning to say that the board is cancelled... forever. jk I've heard nothing. Give it another day!

Wisconsin is supposed to send out invites around the 25th of September so it's still early.

Prolly that whole "be a good dude" prerequesite. 😅

I couldn’t tell you to what degree they do this on a state level, because every state is different. There was a similar trait in No Child Left Behind, which withheld education grants if states didn’t implement standardized tests, and rewarded districts that performed exceptionally. The idea behind it sounded noble - setting high standards and rewarding high performance sounds great, but in practice it just led to higher funding disparities. Some places also use it to determine teacher pay, which leads to the same outcome. Underperforming schools then can’t afford to hire more good teachers, and hence that keeps the performance down. Meanwhile, private schools CAN afford to pay teachers well, especially if you’re having the government pay to let kids go to them... https://classroom.synonym.com/standardized-test-scores-factor-much-money-school-receive-25534.html Anyway, kids getting stuck in crappy schools is absolutely a problem. I just don’t think gutting the public education system and diverting all that money to private businesses is the way to go. There are all kinds of countries out there with kids getting way better educations than ours that didn’t have to resort to subsidizing private interests. We can probably start to emulate that by actually prioritizing education and spending money on our public schools like we used to do.

Not hard to have a family net worth of 2 million when you make nearly 200k a year on your salary and your wife is the president of a university. If he’s a corrupt crook then he’s not very good at it.

How to use poor urban children as an excuse to enrich private interests with tax money, in 6 steps. Step 1: implement standardized tests. Step 2: make standardized tests the basis for deciding which schools get the most funding. Step 3: Use poor test performance to deliberately sabotage inner city schools by diverting their funding to wealthy suburban districts. Step 4: As performance in inner city schools is compounded by diminished budgets, decry the “failings” of public education, push for idea of “school choice.” Step 5: create voucher system to put more kids in private schools using tax payer money. Step 6: ??? [for] PROFIT!!

So far I’ve been to two of them. The first one was super crowded (like 25 other applicant visitors) so it was tough competing for face time, plus the pilots were pretty busy that day. The second unit said no because I didn’t have my PPL yet but said to keep in touch once I do so I plan to visit again. The 179th didn’t allow any visitors though so I didn’t have an opportunity to meet any of them unfortunately, though I would have liked to.

Haha no! She was just a random lady at the bar who got mad at me presumably because she thought I was hitting on her friend or something. I don’t wanna get kicked out of this thread for being off-topic though so I’ll just leave it at that for now lol. In any case I’ll leave that out of the cover letter then I suppose!

Score. I’ve been asking for feedback from the units I’ve applied to and never heard back so I’ll shoot you a PM! Though to be clear I was not rejected by the lesbian, haha.

I’ve never gotten an interview. 😕

My favorite story to tell my bros over a beer is about the time I had a drink unjustifiably thrown in my face by a girl at a lesbian bar. It’s a hilarious yarn. Should I replace my cover letter with this story? Serious question. I’m getting so tired of rejection letters despite my stats that I’m willing to try a Hail Mary just once.

Yep got my rejection email right on time. 😬

Has anybody heard back from 179th FS?

In this case how old is too old? Are they a hard 30? I was wanting to apply with them next time around since I missed this one and I'm 29.