That was the thing with NWA, it wasnt about your connections so much as it was if you met their requirements. It was explained to me by a number of people how they filtered their applicants and supposedly it was some sort of point based system. You got X amount of points for different things. If you got a score of 29 your app went into the 29 pile. If you got a 28 then you went into that pile. If you had a recommendation then you went to the top of the 28 pile but not in front of the 29's. So recommendations helped but didnt pull you to the top of everyone.

Now this is how it was explained to me so i dont know how accurate it is but the point is, NWA had a picture of whom they were looking for. The people that got called all met specific requirements to get selected. I didnt know a single person at NWA and honestly didnt think i'd get called because of that but thats not how their system worked. None the less, I'm happy to be here!