USNA Class of 2028 Waiting and Speculating

Bduett said:
Alabama resident here.... you would not believe what I had to go through to get my kid offered a math his senior year in his school. There were 6 kids in the class.... 1 dropped. Everyone else was taking checkbook math or DE at the local community college
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Alabama aswell! I was the only one who signed up for calculus this year so it wasn’t offered
 
USMC Crayons said:
My wife is a teacher by trade, and our public schools were so bad that she never even bothered to enroll them. She homeschooled them through 8th grade, and then we leveraged a really good online academy for STEM and a couple of other courses for HS. Can't take AP of course, but we do have several dual enrollment classes with a university. We wouldn't change a thing. It's been a pretty cool experience, DS's teacher last year for Spanish III was in Madrid, and was a phenomenal teacher. We figured most kids are just in school on their laptops anyway, what's really the difference?
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Would you mind telling me the name of the online STEM Academy? Trying to find some other options for my younger children.
 
JudgeGuy said:
Summer Seminar is more of an outreach, information fyi program that USNA from what I heard tries pulling in hs students from under represented areas.
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Yes, but it is also more as well. If selected, I believe it is also true that they have identified the applicant as someone that meets the initial criteria of someone of interest to the USNA. Most importantly, it affords that soon to be high school senior that may have no experience or knowledge of the USNA an opportunity to see if this is something they want to pursue further. However, as many have stated here that where appointed with no summer seminar, if not selected for the summer seminar, it also has no impact on whether or not you get an appointment down the road. There are so many more steps along the way to an appointment for those that are accepted into the summer seminar and those that aren't.
 
I’m wondering if USNA spring break has any bearing on the release of appointments? Presumably the faculty who are pulling double duty on the admissions board might have the week off?
 
Remember the admissions committee is just one aspect. Most members are professors or other roles on the yard. So some may take time off as their schedule is regulated. Regardless of that, the appointments & nom committee is really where the big work is occurring. They are full time at that job and I am sure working a lot of hours right now.
 
USMC Crayons said:
So here's a question...If OPNAVIST only allows for 170 slots, who are the remaining SECNAV noms going to? Are those discretionary that Annapolis used for athletes, or candidates they wanted but didn't have a nomination? Per the most recent class portrait, there were 460 under this nominating category.

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Noms and slots are two different things. Remember that MOCs (most years) can give 10 noms for only 1 slot. Presidential and SecNav (among others) can give an UNLIMITED NUMBER OF NOMINATIONS out but only have the number of slots listed in your chart. What many people miss is that the number of slots are pretty much a MINIMUM of how many of the nominees get appointments for the category but beyond that number can come others under "Additional Appointees" which the Academy is authorized to bring the class up to the desired number.
 
the most stressful job at the academy is most definitely those on the Nom and Appointments board... working on a very large and difficult puzzle board. ones that your grandparents would give you that has over 1000 pieces
 
CJP said:
The way i see it is they dont even know who we are because chances are, they havent even looked at your app
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You have absolutely no basis for that OPINION unless the Admissions Board has told you that. Most competitive applicants
that go before the admissions board are assigned a score and then go into a holding pattern until the slates that the particular
candidate is on are resolved. This scoring by the board can and does happen independent of nominations so there might be
a great candidate who gets assigned a high score but does not get an appointment until there is a nom. Generally, I would
expect that candidate to get an LOA but clearly there are outstanding candidates who submit early who do not get LOAs.
Going back to the high scoring candidate who already has a nom, admissions CAN offer an appointment at that time even if
their slate has not yet been resolved because the score is high enough that they are confident that the applicant will at least be
an additional appointee even if they don't win the slate.
 
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