There’s absolutely hope, most years 150-170 people post on this forum, and we’ve only seen like 80 so far? I would say that’s a good indicator that appointments are certainly not finished. It is a possibility that the population of people using service academy forums compared to people applying to usna in general is skewed this year, but that’s highly unlikely. I have a 1570 SAT, a 3.8 gpa and I’m from a rural area where only two people applied to usna. And no one from my district has heard back
. So I would just say, have hope until you can’t, it’s better to think positively and then face disappointment than to never have had hope at all or expect the worst and then actually get it.