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Ever since middle school, joining the military and going to USNA has been a seemingly unreachable goal that kept floating in the back of my mind. After attending NASS and SLE, I had no doubt that I wanted to go to a service academy and continue on to serve my country. So why, now that I have the...

41) USNA2020/Jan 27 Appointment-not yet accepted/MD-06/LOA and Senatorial Nom

dkdino- My congressman didn't give me a nomination. Also under "nomination source" it said "Congress/Senator 1"

Check your USNA portal

Received a nomination to USNA from Cardin as well!

Does anyone know when Congressman Delaney's results usually comes out? (MD-6)

3 LOA's to USNA from one school? And I thought LOA's were rare.. even with my LOA, I'm thinking there's a good chance that I won't get a nomination because of the sheer number of LOA's in Maryland, especially because my stats are not that great.

Update: USNA has approved my medical waiver and reinstated the LOA. Thank you all for your assistance.

This is just my perspective, but personally I wouldn't risk the ED. In the case that he does get accepted, getting out of the binding situation may be tough and not worth it, given that the first choice is the service academy. On the other hand, if he does not receive an appointment but gets...

Plans B C and D refer to backup plans given the service academies are Plan A. (i.e., civilian college, ROTC, etc)

After you submit your remedial exam results, are those the only results that DODMERB takes into consideration? i.e. DODMERB does not review any of the exams previously submitted

For the initial DODMERB exam, I went to a Concorde eye doctor that gave me a wrong prescription. I believe this resulted in the sustaining of my disqualification and denial of waiver from USNA despite new eye exams from several eye doctors that proved there was no DQ. Here is my question: do...

Update: USNA requested a remedial evaluation. What does this mean? If I pass the remedial evaluation, will DoDMERB remove the DQ?

They send an email and it shows up in your application portal.

Even if you have an LOA, don't assume anything yet. I got an LOA last week and found out this week that I was turned down because my medical condition is unwaiverable. I am fighting it but even if I get a waiver, I don't know if I will still have the LOA.