Nominated or Not?

hockeygirl

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I checked my USNA portal today to see a nomination posted under the section. The Congressman's application instructions said he was sending a slate of 10, so would my portal be reflective of this (me as one of the 10) or did I recieve his official endorsement?
 
Yes, nice job! You are on the nomination slate of 10 people. They will not let you know what place you rank in the 10.
 
@nap11: do you know how I will find out if I recieved the Nomination, or is it whomever recieves an appointment first recieves the nomination within the ranking (ie. #1 gets an appointment, therefore #2-10 are 'out of the running' for that particular nom) ?
 
You did receive the nomination. What you are thinking about is the slot that your MOC has. Each MOC is allotted 5 slots per academy at any given time. As long as you have a nomination though you can still be appointed from the NWL.
 
It's more commonly called the "National Pool," not to be confused with the "Wait List." The former are those nominees who do not "win" their slate. IOW, USNA selects one person from the slate of up to 10 who receives that MOC's nomination. If more than one person was nominated for that vacancy, the others go to the National Pool, where they compete against other non-slate-winners for additional offers of appointment.

The Wait List is made up of candidates who do not initially receive an appointment or a turndown. They are waitlisted, and depending on yield (acceptance rate), will later be offered an appointment or will later receive a turndown. The Wait List is typically not formed until very late in the admissions process.
 
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