Gentlemen, thank you for all of your comments, humor, anecdotes, and advice. I have spent the better part of a long overnight reading up.
I have a couple of questions:
Does the lack of a recent training event (8 years since I upgraded) hurt my application score? Along with that, does lots of TT and PIC hurt the score? This is a serious question, as I have heard that Delta is looking for guys who aren't "stagnant".
A few months ago, I had a friend submit the HR email. Unfortunately I hadn't gone over my application with a fine toothed comb prior to that, so I'm afraid that HR might had passed over it due to a few incomplete places. Now that I've gone over my app and cleaned it up a lot, have I blown my chance? Should I have another friend submit an email?
Any other tips on the scoring process (how often they review updates, etc...)?
Thank you again for the extremely informative thread, I hope to get my chance of a lifetime soon!