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    April 15 Approaching Fast

    What is the deadline for that? 15 April?
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    April 15 Approaching Fast

    My DS is still on hold from VA
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    No more Principal Nominations.

    Both NOAA Officer Corps and the Public Health Services Commissioned Corps fall under the UCMJ as well but are not military. Like the CG they are apart of the 7 Uniform Services.
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    No more Principal Nominations.

    Not off topic at all. The thread is Principle nominations. Dont confuse a uniformed service with a military branch. CG has its genesis as the Revenue Cutter Service I will grant you that it is old. Re: forward deployed units in times of war they would fall under the Navy for command and control...
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    No more Principal Nominations.

    CG is not military if you recall- Department of Homeland Security. So how is this relevant? I support my argument of the USCGA direct application selection process is bias and does not work as it should by pointing out the delta in the % admission of females and you conclude that I " have a...
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    No more Principal Nominations.

    Half the folks on this board are retired, myself included, so that is not material. What is material is how these academies take the subjective candidate attributes (not SATs and GPA) and convert them to objective measurements. The Whole Candidate Score-WCS. And BTW if they do have a 4.0 and...
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    No more Principal Nominations.

    Regarding "getting in on your own merit" must be a supposition on your part. How did you arrive at this? How do you define success on their part? They have there own way of selecting appointees but that doesn't make it the best way. In fact, I would argue that they have their own set of...
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    Competitive states - harder to get in?

    The first piece of advise from VA-10 several years ago during a parent/kid info session was to move out of the area. Tongue in cheek to be sure but the point is the local and state competition was off the charts. One year Virginia had around 700 candidates! I am sure not all finished their...
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    No more Principal Nominations.

    I have two kids in diff service academies and you are right that some MOCs dont get it. For USMA, USAFA and USNA they are large enough to have state and congressional representation from all districts. This is a legal requirement. If you are only person nomiated from you district and you meet...
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    CONGRATIONS TO CS 34, SQUADRON OF THE YEAR X2!

    Right- my son sat behind Biden last year and gen Welch this year.
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    USCGA Class of 2019 statistics and waitlist?

    You need to watch the movie "Animal House"
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    Laptop NIST compliance??

    That's what I wanted to hear!
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    Which state for nominations

    Given the smaller classes, the number of appointments from "mandated" sources is an increasing portion of each class. Thus, there are fewer "at large" appointment slots -- or those coming from the national pool -- than there were even a decade ago. The combination of the above means that, going...
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    Which state for nominations

    Of course you are both correct but as I stated the more competitive the district the more to rely on the Pres nom. Input from the B&G on whether or not one applies for the MOC is hardly a strong position for the TWE. If candidate motivation is in question look no further than one academic...
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    Which state for nominations

    How did USNA know that she had not applied for MOC nom? And don't think that the USNA wont reason away a nom cause they will. Case in point- Northern VA gives one nom for the most part. My son did not get a USNA appointment and their reason- cause he didn't get a MOC nom. I did not make that up...
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    Which state for nominations

    Actually that brings to question another point, which is don't the academy admissions appoint the MOC selection first and then go to the Presidential and then to the NWL?
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    Which state for nominations

    See my other response and, having done this for years, it is not so terrible rather it is very realistic.
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    Which state for nominations

    Of course I agree with you however in ultra competitive area (Northern Va and others) you are only going to show up on one slate so take the path of certainty and least resistance. BTW the 1 in 8 chance describe a random selection not a rank order selection.
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    Which state for nominations

    If I had to do the nomination process over again I would only use the Presidential- it is by far the easiest path. All you need is one nomination and the Pres does that for you. The others have essays, Letters of Recs, interviews etc. Go with the Presidential. KISS
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    I posted in the USMMA forum but prob is germain to this forum as well.

    Say what? Diversity has nothing to do with it? The academies would say differently. I am not sure I understand the secretaries pick. I don't disagree that MOCs can do what they want I am saying they should do what is proper. Getting as many candidates in front of the selection folks should be...
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