It helps in that the first place you compete is within the slates. The advantage of multiple nominations is you compete against more slates, and therefore more places to be charged against. This is especially true when those slates are competitive.I have one from a senator and one from a congressman, neither indicated a PNOM and said that they were using the "competitive" system. If that's the case, how does two actually help me?
At first, I had a hard time understanding the "apply for all the nominations you can qualify for" since my son was repeatedly told that once he had one (a nomination) he was pretty much set. Especially if that nomination supersedes another. So the reality is, those who nominate probably want to avoid the redundancy of nominating the same individual, especially if that candidate is strong one to begin with. I think it's then left up to the candidate to know when you have enough support and let the reps nominate others in the mix.
We took the advice didn't apply higher than we needed despite the aforementioned suggestions. Besides, I think they they talk to each other so in most cases, they'll tell you too if offering a nomination would be in your best interest. I'm guessing though on that.
For the Congressional Noms - it is impossible for one individual to end up on 2 Congressman's slates... because you can only compete in one district.
True, but my DS has two nominations to the same academy from the same congressman as he had two available slots and listed him in both slots. So, we wait... no word yet.
For the Congressional Noms - it is impossible for one individual to end up on 2 Congressman's slates... because you can only compete in one district.
For Senatorial Noms - which are state wide - there exists the possibility that a single candidate could end up on both slates. I do not know how other states work, but our Senators offices DO coordinate so that a duplication does not happen in order to allow the max number of candidates to be presented to USMA for consideration.
A candidate CAN have BOTH a Congressional and a Senatorial Nom - this is fairly common for the most highly qualified candidates.