Our son has applied to USMA, USNA, USAFA and CGA. All but USNA have received his DoDMERB. Just this week, USAFA medically disqualified him. Waivers are still under review from USMA and CGA. DoDMERB has informed him that they will not send his report to USNA since he does not have a waiver. He already has a nomination to USNA so he wants to complete the application. Why can the report not be sent since each completes their own waiver process?
DoDMERB release to another Academy
- Thread starter vikings
- Start date
- Joined
- Sep 27, 2008
- Messages
- 20,581
No doubt Mr. Mullen will respond. In the interim, if your son hasn’t yet gone to the DoDMERB website and read every menu item on the left, that can be very helpful. The process, FAQs, workflows, etc. I pasted in a paragraph that might be helpful as a pointer to where this part of the process is addressed.
It is DoDMERB’s role to make the Q/DQ decision, or the meets/not meets standards. The decision will be the same regardless of SA. Once that info is available, SAs take it from there.
“12. Service Academies = If you are determined to be “competitive for an offer of appointment” (determined by the Offices of Admissions), medical waiver consideration will be automatically requested on your behalf. You are NOT required to request a medical waiver. Conversely, if you are not competitive for an offer of appointment, either after evaluation or because enough of the application has NOT been completed, there will be no medical waiver consideration. There may be periods in between, where the Admissions office has NOT made this determination yet.
a. Keep in mind that all US Services Academies, require 4 non-negotiable items for admission
1) Selection by Admissions {Academics, College Test scores, extracurricular activities, etc., are considered};
2) Successful passing of the Candidate Fitness Assessment {CFA};
3) Medical qualification by DoDMERB or receipt of a medical waiver by the Academy
4) {Except for the USCGA} a nomination from Member of Congress, the Vice President or the President. So, depending on where you are in the timeline, prior to 31 Jan of the year you are to be admitted, you must have items 1, 2, and 4 above, completed.
b. No applicant, say again, NO APPLICANT, will ever be denied admission by a US Service Academy because they receive a DoDMERB determination of did NOT meet DoD medical accession standards (particularly, West Point). “IF” you meet 1, 2, and 4 in paragraph 5a above, but received a DoDMERB determination of “does NOT meet medical accession standards,” Admissions will automatically request medical waiver consideration to begin for you.”
It is DoDMERB’s role to make the Q/DQ decision, or the meets/not meets standards. The decision will be the same regardless of SA. Once that info is available, SAs take it from there.
“12. Service Academies = If you are determined to be “competitive for an offer of appointment” (determined by the Offices of Admissions), medical waiver consideration will be automatically requested on your behalf. You are NOT required to request a medical waiver. Conversely, if you are not competitive for an offer of appointment, either after evaluation or because enough of the application has NOT been completed, there will be no medical waiver consideration. There may be periods in between, where the Admissions office has NOT made this determination yet.
a. Keep in mind that all US Services Academies, require 4 non-negotiable items for admission
1) Selection by Admissions {Academics, College Test scores, extracurricular activities, etc., are considered};
2) Successful passing of the Candidate Fitness Assessment {CFA};
3) Medical qualification by DoDMERB or receipt of a medical waiver by the Academy
4) {Except for the USCGA} a nomination from Member of Congress, the Vice President or the President. So, depending on where you are in the timeline, prior to 31 Jan of the year you are to be admitted, you must have items 1, 2, and 4 above, completed.
b. No applicant, say again, NO APPLICANT, will ever be denied admission by a US Service Academy because they receive a DoDMERB determination of did NOT meet DoD medical accession standards (particularly, West Point). “IF” you meet 1, 2, and 4 in paragraph 5a above, but received a DoDMERB determination of “does NOT meet medical accession standards,” Admissions will automatically request medical waiver consideration to begin for you.”
- Joined
- May 31, 2008
- Messages
- 7,992
Vikings = Google "DoDMERB;" Hit "Questions on the process;" Read paragraph 4
Son = email me: lawrence.e.mullen.civ@mail.mil; provide complete name and last 4 SSN; paste YOUR posting to HIS email, provided he knows you asked these questions
Son = email me: lawrence.e.mullen.civ@mail.mil; provide complete name and last 4 SSN; paste YOUR posting to HIS email, provided he knows you asked these questions
NextGen89x2
Member
- Joined
- Jan 5, 2021
- Messages
- 100
USNA has to request DoDMERB evaluation or receipt of evaluation that has already been done. Our DS is in the same boat. He just got granted a waiver for NROTC (MC option) and is under waiver review for USAFA, but USNA has yet to even request his info. He is fully qualified with nomination otherwise. I am hoping that USNA is just really backed up and slow to get in gear. His info will all be at DoDMERB ready to go when USNA requests it.
NextGen89x2
Member
- Joined
- Jan 5, 2021
- Messages
- 100
Glad to hear that fact confirmed by someone other than USNA!Correct. USNA is backed up