Questions about National American Miss?

That is a lot of questions! I will try to help. I was in NAM and so was my friend.

1) Getting sponsors is really about the same thing as the Girl Scout cookie thing. If you give it a really good try, over time, and see like about ten people or businesses that your family knows, then it will probably work out for you. For me, family did some of it, and I reaised the rest. But my family did not want to help out until they saw that I was making an effort and had some success collecting sponsor fee.

2) I asked what the acceptance criteria was. They said that the basic thing was you need to have a B or better grade average, you need to have activites that show you are setting and achieveing goals, and you need to have a good interview. That's it.

3) You do not need to bring anything to the open call. It is an information session where they tell you want NAM is and show you some videos and stuff. You also get to fill out an application and interview to get in, if you want to. But you do need to have a parent with you.

4) No one is watching you at the open call. Actually, you are watching them; the people doign the presentation.

5) No one makes you go. You go if it is something you want to do,.

6) The interview is easy. It is about a minute. Just be smiley and positive. You might read up online about how to handle yourself in a job interview. If you are like me, I have never done that before. Wish I had read up on it a little, just to get an idea of how to sit and stuff.

7) NAM is not a beauty pageant. They are very upfront about that. I researched it a lot. If you want a beauty pageant, go to Miss USA. That is the one with swimsuits and things like that. I am ok with that, but not for me. I liked NAM, it is about who you are, not what you look like. There are all kinds of girls at NAM. The queen for my age group was red headed, had braces and a bit of a skin issue. The one for the next age group up was actually very pretty, in a Dakota Fanning kind of way.

8) They mail you a packet that lets you know. They also call, but I missed the call. We were on vacation.

9) I don't think there is anything you really need to know. They tell you all about it at the open call. You pretty much sit back and listen and they show you what it is about. One good thing to do is to go to youtube and search on National American Miss. A lot of girls have uploaded videos to youtube about their time in NAM.

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I got one too..bareley right now.. why did they pick us? Who "reffered" us? Whoever it is. I'm gonna kill them!!